Sowing seeds and growing connections to end hunger in Maricopa County

Sometimes experiential learning means getting your hands dirty. That was the first lesson some Arizona State University students learned Feb. 24 when they ventured beyond the walls of their health disparities class and into the inner courtyard of Academia del Pueblo, a K-8 charter school just off Central Avenue in Phoenix to put on gloves and began working to clear...

Effective teaching course has ASU faculty on the other side of the classroom

Some of Arizona State University's best and brightest professors are headed back to the classroom. Kind of ... On the cutting edge of an initiative to help college faculty implement essential practices shown to improve student performance, ASU has around 90 professors currently enrolled in the Association of College and University Educators' (ACUE) online course in Effective Teaching Practices ...

ASU professors explain mysterious case of Foreign Accent Syndrome

Buckeye resident Michelle Myers went to bed one night in 2015 with a crippling migraine and woke up with a thick British accent. Despite never having gone abroad, Myers has been speaking with an accent ever since. So what gives? The 45-year-old former beauty queen was diagnosed with a medical condition called “Foreign Accent Syndrome,” a rare disorder usually associated...