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Arizona State University is committed to fostering innovative solutions that yield real-world change. ASU values our employees' innovative contributions through creative and inspiring projects and programs that advance the university and communities all over. The President's Awards formally recognizes successful solutions in innovation, sustainability and social embeddedness.

These awards are opportunities to recognize and celebrate the commitment and contributions of ASU employees.

ASU President Michael M. Crow“Through the efforts of ASU employees, we are creating one of the greatest learning environments ever established anywhere. I appreciate the commitment and significant contributions demonstrated by our university employees, and I support the opportunities we have to acknowledge and celebrate the individual and collective accomplishments of our colleagues.”

— Michael M. Crow, ASU President

 

 

 

Eligibility

ASU faculty and staff may apply. Ideas can be developed by teams and take many forms. Projects or programs must be developed, completed, implemented and show measurable results. Interested applicants must be prequalified for final applications.

Submission for prequalification proposals is now closed.

A committee will review each submission and determine if the proposed project or program aligns with the selected award. Approved proposals will be announced May 23-24, followed by an official invitation to apply and the next steps in the award application process. 

Contact Patty Rosciano for inquiries about submitted proposals.

Proposals that are not selected will also be notified and invited to a future President's Awards workshop, which will provide feedback to prepare for future submissions.

Accepted applicants

Invited projects or programs selected will receive an awards packet detailing the second part of the application process:

  1. Attending an informational and writers’ workshop to assist you in your submission.
  2. Including detailed information on your application — e.g., contact information, abstract, document requirements.
  3. Ensuring the project meets the full award criteria.
  4. Adhering to the application submission deadline.

Please e-mail the program coordinator for additional resources.

You must submit your final application by July 1, 2022, without exception following the timeline provided. A committee will review all completed submissions and select the final President’s Awards recipients. The program coordinator will notify award recipients and provide details regarding the awards ceremony.

Project Award category descriptions

President’s Award for Innovation

This award recognizes ASU personnel who demonstrate the university's commitment to higher education through the development and execution of innovative projects, programs, initiatives, services and techniques. Solutions may be motivated by social, economic, artistic or intellectual challenges and should reflect a clear commitment to positive change while creating value for the university and the broader community. Ideas might include these elements:

  • Collaborative initiatives involving departments, external communities or institutions that yield mutually beneficial outcomes.
  • Revolutionary processes that serve as exemplars in any field and are scaled or used within ASU and beyond.
  • Modern methods that drive the success of ASU’s academic community of students and scholars — e.g., recruitment, programming, research and learning.
  • Imaginative solutions to social, economic, political, environmental or other global challenges that meet present and future needs.

President’s Award for Sustainability

This award recognizes sustainability principles, solutions, programs or services that may serve as a catalyst or an example for adoption by other ASU units. Sustainability projects and programs must model one or more of the following:

  • Collaborative action among scientists, scholars, business leaders, students and community leaders that enhances our collective capacity to address sustainability challenges.
  • Campus operations, including the development of campus events, business practices or policies, that promote and enhance ASU’s goals of climate positivity, a circular resource system and optimized water use.
  • Teaching and learning involving faculty, staff and students promoting sustainability practices and solving sustainability problems locally, nationally or globally.
  • Use-inspired research that is a collaboration between university researchers and their internal and external partners to develop solutions addressing sustainability’s environmental, economic and social challenges.

President’s Medal for Social Embeddedness

This award recognizes recipients for designing and facilitating new models for positive university-community collaborations. Social embeddedness is one of ASU’s eight design aspirations, encompassing new ways of thinking about how ASU and communities can partner in mutually beneficial ways. Socially embedded projects or programs may be related to one or more of the following actions:

Capacity building: Enable ASU and community organizations and institutions to become strong and effective by providing opportunities for mutual support, training and access to resources and information.
Civic engagement: Cultivate an environment that encourages faculty, staff, students and the community to actively and responsibly engage in issues of public importance throughout their lifetime.
Community-based teaching and learning: Involve faculty, staff, students and the community in discovery, solving problems or maximizing learning and growing opportunities.
Knowledge exchange: Build bridges between the university and community by translating groundbreaking research into accessible and meaningful information that the public can use and working with partners to leverage knowledge and expertise as we work together to tackle complex issues.
Use-inspired research: Advance relevant inquiry by leveraging community input, knowledge and needs.

Recipients

Innovation

2021

NatureMaker is an applied-learning library that offers artifacts, research equipment and books on biomimicry and biomechanics. These hands-on learning resources help to solve design, business, engineering and sustainability challenges.

Study Hallprovides entertaining learning concepts on YouTube that prepare learners for college success.

2020

ASU Law and Behavioral Science Initiative brings together scholars and students from across ASU whose research interests are at the intersection of law and psychology, an area that has broad appeal and exciting potential for real-world impact.

Sustainability

2020

Produce Rescue at ASU is a partnership program between ASU and the nonprofit Borderlands Produce Rescue. The program helps reduce fresh produce waste by distributing it to students and families across Arizona.

2019

Banner Bag Programturnsdiscarded vinyl banners into stylish, upcycled tote bags. ASU’s goal is to divert 100% of its banners from going to landfills.

Social embeddedness

2021

Guadalupe COVID-19 Community Response Team detected elevated levels of SARS-CoV-2 in wastewater samples near the Town of Guadalupe in May 2020. The team provides culturally tailored health education and prevention to mitigate the spread of COVID-19.

School Participatory Budgeting is an innovative civic learning program implemented in 47 Arizona K-12 schools. The program empowers students to curate ideas, develop proposals and participate in a school-wide election to vote on a proposal to execute on their campus.

Thrive in the 05 is an initiative that develops innovative community solutions to solve complex social problems through community partnerships and research. These efforts provided critical resources and services to vulnerable residents during the coronavirus pandemic.

2020

Survivor Linkis an ASU partnership with AmeriCorps that increases access to evidence-based interventions for domestic violence survivors. Students are trained as domestic violence victim advocates and research is accessible to professionals in the community.

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