On the Downtown Phoenix campus, ASU offers students academic and urban lifestyles in the heart of Arizona's capital. With more than 11,500 enrolled students, the campus offers a wide variety of schools and colleges, including nursing, journalism, future of innovation, health solutions, letters and sciences, public service, teaching and soon the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law.
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Diana Alshalabi (left) and Kelly Champlin work together in their chemistry lab in the University Center building.
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The Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication offers real-world news-gathering experiences.
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Journalism students Zac Pacleb (left) and Miles Todd prepare the camera for their television reporting class.
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Allison Lucas looks at a slide under her microscope in the microbiology lab.
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Students pass by residential hall Taylor Place in the heart of the Downtown Phoenix campus.
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The University Center features a commons area, modern classrooms, offices, labs, seminar rooms, as well as student services, an ASU Bookstore and a café.
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ASU lecturer Cayle Lisenbee (left) points out some of the animals in a salt water aquarium to Morgan Bowen and others in the general biology lab.
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Hundreds of students filtered in and out of the Downtown Campus Career Fair at the historic A.E. England Building.
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Residential hall Taylor Place is reflected in the windows of the Arizona Center of Law and Society, future home of the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law.
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Olivia Davila does some work between classes at the University Center Commons.
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Physics students work on measurements from a laser diffraction and light interference.
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The Sun Devil Fitness Center shares some facilities with the Downtown Lincoln Family YMCA.
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The Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication building provides students with seven collaborative, digital newsrooms; computer labs; two TV studios and the 141-seat Cronkite Theatre. The university-operated public television station, Eight, Arizona PBS, is in the same complex.
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Janet Echelman's 2009 art work, "Her Secret is Patience," floats above the civic space park, which is a "bridge" between the ASU and surrounding community, and accommodates a variety of uses, events and daily functions of the university.
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