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An assistant professor at Arizona State University's School of Ocean Futures, based in Hilo, Hawaii, studies coral microbiomes while working as a non-competitive, sponsored professional surfer. Under a nine-month faculty appointment, she allocates roughly 85% of her work year to research and teaching and 15% to surfing-related work, which includes producing sponsored social media content.
pwn.college is a hands-on cybersecurity education platform maintained by a team at Arizona State University, used to teach core computing and security skills through terminal-based exercises and a belt-ranking progression system. ASU has made the platform freely available worldwide, and it already underpins much of the university's own cybersecurity curriculum.
A former journalism professor writing for CNET describes how AI chatbots like ChatGPT have made grading homework nearly impossible, citing a UC Berkeley math professor who has stopped grading assignments because students rely on AI. The author recounts struggling to detect AI-generated writing in advanced communications courses and noting that students could pass most assignments with AI help, only faltering on tasks like live presentations that AI couldn't complete for them.
Samantha Brunhaver, an associate professor at Arizona State University, is leading an NSF-funded project examining how engineers develop adaptability on the job. Through interviews with managers, early-career employees, and undergraduates, she found that while adaptability is widely cited as essential, employers rarely define or teach it consistently, and its meaning shifts depending on the industry, from tool turnover in software to regulatory changes in aerospace or biomedical fields.