ASU's Week in Pictures

Sang Gwon Kim (right) checks out the signage on the X Square project before the official opening event. Diego Valencia (left), one of the members of the team who designed the winning entry, chats with Abraham Perez (center).

Three designers, a fiber artist and a musician collaborated to create the winning design for this year’s competition, installed on Neeb Plaza, between the School of Art and The Design School. The design creates a multi-level and multi-purpose seating, lounging and gathering spot with trees and an artificial turf to create an inviting and comfortable place for the campus community.

To learn more about the X-Square competition, visit http://herbergerinstitute.asu.edu/institute/initiatives/xsquare.php.

Even early in the semester, the engineering tutoring center on ASU's Tempe campus is a popular resource with students. Beshoy Soulliman (left) works with sophomore mechanical engineering major Ross Peterson on his physics assignment.

A ribbon-cutting ceremony took place to celebrate the grand opening of the Casa de Oro residence hall and Verde Dining Pavilion, on ASU's West campus, Sept. 7. From left to right: Mistalene Calleroz-White, dean of students; Elizabeth Langland, university vice president and dean of the New College of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences; Michael Crow, ASU President; Bill Bayless, president of American Campus Communities; Bianca De Garriz, student; and Steve Frate, vice mayor of the City of Glendale.

On Sept. 7 another ribbon-cutting ceremony took place to kick off the Cosmology Initiative, intended to create one of the largest and most comprehensive cosmology programs in the country. From left to right: Scott Smas, Paul Davies, Rogier Windhorst, ASU President Michael Crow, Lawrence Krauss, Tanmay Vachaspati and Judd Bowman.

To learn more about the initiative visit: http://www.cosmology.asu.edu/.

Up early on Saturday morning, civil engineering major Kristy Kwong sights a surveying transit during the lab session for both a construction management and civil engineering course.

Students hold surveying rods along University Drive during the lab.

From left to right: Alex Schreiber, Brenda Blanco, Corey Fitzgerald, Marcus Jackson, Joe Sperduto and Aziz Abuwandi. Blanco and Abuwandi are civil engineering majors and the others are students in the construction management program at the Del E. Webb School of Construction.

The measurements and descriptions of landmarks are carefully recorded as the class works its way down University Drive. Christopher Auierich, a professional surveyor, has taught the class for 20 years.

The Project Humanities fall program included a panel discussion with members from the Center for Games and Impact. Sierra Campbell (left) from the center, Brenden Sewell (center} from the Learning Sciences Institute and Jeff Holmes, also from the center, explored "Gaming Solutions to Society's Biggest Challenges."

Rebecca Hoffman, an intern with the Center for Games and Impact, and Joel Ayala discuss the game "Minecraft."

Eve Shapiro (right) talks with a student following Shapiro’s lecture, “Gender Circuits: Bodies and Identities in a Technological Age,” an event that was part of the 2012 Project Humanities lineup and was presented in partnership with Barrett, The Honors College.

Professor Ben Hurbut from the School of Life Sciences (left) continued the discussion while fellow panel participant Hava Tirosh-Samuelson, a professor in the Jewish Studies program, takes notes.

Daniel Gilfillan of ASU's Institute for Humanities Research (left) was the moderator of a panel discussion titled, "Being Human in a Posthuman World," a part of the 2012 Project Humanities fall program. Above, Gilfillan listens as Ron Broglio, professor in ASU’s English Department, begins the discussion.

In partnership with the School of Letters and Sciences on the Polytechnic campus, the panel discussion "Human Identity in the Digital Age" was presented Sept. 12. Professor Eva Brumberger (left) along with professors Andrew Pilsch (right) and Manuel Aviles-Sangtiago explored the timely topic in a wide-ranging conversation.