Pursue a degree in innovation
Explore undergraduate degreesExplore graduate programsThe School for the Future of Innovation in Society (SFIS) is a transdisciplinary unit at the vanguard of ASU’s commitment to linking innovation to public value. We are pursuing a vision of responsible innovation that anticipates challenges and opportunities, integrates diverse knowledge and perspectives, and engages broad audiences. By examining the ways we translate imagination into innovation — and how we blend technical and social concerns along the way — we learn to build a future for everyone.
A visit to Rohingya refugee camps in his home country of Bangladesh changed the course of Faheem Hussain ’s research.
Announced today in Washington, D.C., by Blue Origin , Arizona State University has signed a memorandum of understanding with Blue Origin to send payloads to the lunar surface.
Fake news. Weaponized narratives. Agitprop. It’s all chatter, until someone puts down the keyboard, picks up a gun and walks into a house of worship. How do you fight that?
Editor's note: ASU Now will be updating this story all week with additional photos from the university's various convocations.
Editor’s note: This is part of a series of profiles for spring 2019 commencement .
School for the Future of Innovation in Society: State of the School 2018-19
In his research on the future of “smart cities” – cities populated by networked devices and processes making up an “internet of things” – HSD PhD candidate Jathan Sadowski pointedly skirts the boggy debate over definitions, which has a tendency to
“What does responsibility in research and innovation mean in the U.S.? Is the answer different across research organizations? What about in other countries? The RRI-Practice project aims to find out, and identify best practices for facilitating responsible research and innovation in the process.”
