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ASU medical school gets accreditation, new name
To view this email as a web page, click here.November 2025 ASU medical school gains accreditation — and a new nameArizona State University’s new medical school has received preliminary accreditation, enabling it to begin recruiting its first class of students — as well as a new name. As the result of a nine-figure gift from John Shufeldt, the founder of urgent care company NextCare and other companies, the school will be known as the John Shufeldt School of Medicine and Medical Engineering.The Shufeldt School is a central component of ASU Health, a broad effort to transform how health care is designed and delivered while also producing new physicians, nurses, specialists and scientists.Read more  ASU President Crow talks with US Army leaders about adapting organizations for rapid changeASU President Michael Crow spoke to nearly 100 U.S. Army leaders at the Association of the United States Army’s 2025 Leader Solarium in Washington, D.C., about advancing a new mission: designing organizations built to evolve. Crow explained how ASU’s design-driven model can inform the Army’s own efforts to adapt to rapid technological and cultural change.Read more  What’s up at ASU? Find out – subscribe to ASU NewsThe official digital news platform for Arizona State University, ASU News delivers stories of people making a difference in your community. We bring the top headlines to your inbox three times a week.Subscribe for free  SEEN IN D.C. — On September 25, ASU hosted its annual Congressional Black Caucus event at the Barrett O’Connor Center. (Photo courtesy Dorrell Edwards/Always Timeless Productions)  ASU’s role in national security, helping veterans praised by Rep. HamadehDuring his Nov. 10 visit to the West Valley campus, U.S. Rep. Abe Hamadeh praised ASU for its national security role and veteran support. He highlighted the Pat Tillman Veterans Center, which helps nearly 25,000 military-connected students, and ASU’s advances in defense innovation, cybersecurity and microelectronics. Hamadeh encouraged lawmakers to explore university research to gain a better understanding of defense technologies.“You can’t escape ASU,” Hamadeh said at the Congressional Dialogue Series event. “They have a [facility] at Washington, D.C. They’re all over the world. So many of the ambassadors who visit my office, they all know what ASU is. They all want to visit soon.”Read more  China’s rapid ascent in space puts U.S. leadership at risk, new report warnsA new report suggests that the United States may lose its dominant position in space as China quickly reshapes what advancement looks like on earth and in orbit. “Redshift”, co-authored by the ASU NewSpace initiative’s Jonathan Roll, examines six areas of China’s space ecosystem, ranging from industry to military to science. “If you look next to us and we see China there, and we’re at parity with China, that’s when we’ll probably be too late,” Roll said during a briefing at the Rayburn House Office Building.Read more Research matters AI program could help guard against pandemics and biowarfareWhen it comes to responding to emergencies like pandemics and biothreats, time is of the essence. Abhishek Singharoy, an associate professor in ASU’s School of Molecular Sciences — currently on a special assignment with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency — is building a new AI program that can predict the function of every protein known to man in the span of about an hour. The program combines physics with advanced artificial intelligence to analyze how proteins — the molecules that control how diseases spread and how our bodies respond — move and change shape.Read moreWhy ASU research matters  ASU, Taiwan strengthen partnership tiesAs both Arizona State University and Taiwan have become major players in Arizona’s burgeoning semiconductor industry, the university has worked to nurture its ties to the island. This fall, ASU President Michael Crow traveled to Taiwan to meet with top leaders in industry and education, as well as with ASU alumni, while a Taiwanese delegation visited Phoenix for SEMICON West.ASU has seen an uptick of Sun Devils coming from Taiwan in recent years. Overall, 531 students from Taiwan studied at ASU in the 2024–25 academic year, an increase of more than 70% from 2021–22.Read more  ASU programs help position students as leaders in diplomacy, national securityLt. Gen. Benjamin Freakley had no idea the future that was ahead of him when he met ASU President Michael Crow in 2012. Freakley, who retired from the U.S. Army after more than 36 years of active military service, didn’t know he would be wearing an ASU shirt 13 years later, proudly extolling the virtues of the university he works for and speaking with great zeal about the ASU leadership lab he cofounded.Read more ASU in DC in the newsThe Man Leading America’s “Most Innovative School” More from ASU Sealing the deal: Law, policy and partnerships in tribal water agreementsThe first in a series of brown bag lunch seminars hosted by the Indian Legal Program discussed the Northeastern Arizona Indian Water Rights Settlement Act of 2025, which would go on to ratify and fund the largest Indian water rights settlement in the country, securing water rights for the Navajo Nation, Hopi Tribe and the San Juan Southern Paiute Tribe.Read more Arizona State University | Washington, D.C. 1800 I Street, NW, Washington, D.C. 20006Telephone: 202-446-0381For more information, contact Jay Thorne: Jay.Thorne@asu.edu This email was sent to: peter.hovis@gmail.com Forward to a friend | Update Profile | Unsubscribe View this email onlineArizona State University PO Box 877705, Tempe, AZ, 85287-7705, USA Copyright © 2025 Arizona Board of Regents | Privacy statement |
