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Preserving America’s Cultural Touchstones: the National Register of Historic Places
What do Taliesin West, the “Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas” sign and the Hoover Dam have in common? They are all properties listed on the National Register of Historic Places. ...

ASU Hosting Esri Global Education Manager on April 4th, 2024
ASU School of Geographical Sciences & Urban Planning will be hosting Dr. Michael Gould for an hour-long talk: On the Evolution of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Spatial Data Infrastruct...
New Web Application: 1918 National Parks and Monuments
A new Web App, 1918 National Parks and Monuments, is now live on ASU Geodata. This App digitizes a map of the National Park and Monument system in its infancy and overlays it across a modern map of th...
Map of the Month: March 2024
The United States National Park Service (NPS) currently administers 63 National Parks and 85 National Monuments, among the astonishing 423 total areas managed by the agency. That scope wasn’t always s...

Open Education Week 2024 and OERizona
March 4th to March 8th is Open Education Week, a global celebration of the open education (OE) movement and open educational resources (OER). What is OER? Simply put, instructors design open educati...

2024 March Mammal Madness tournament celebrates animals, the arts
As the seasons change, the month of March brings a special excitement to the air; 65 featured combatants are poised to enter “battle,” with only one to be crowned March Mammal Madness champion. The M...

Fair Use Week 2024: Fair use for educators
Understanding fair use is a very daunting task for most of us– and for good reason. When it comes to fair use, there are no clear answers. The doctrine is intentionally open and flexible, and without ...

Reclaiming a lost history
Arizona’s Black and African American community has woefully been underrepresented in the telling of the state’s history. However, a repository at Arizona State University that has been quietly taking...

Memory Keepers Fellowship 2024: Janine Nelson
Introductions: The Memory Keepers Fellowship program is a project partnered between ASU’s Community Driven Archive Initiative and the Labriola Center. The fellowship is geared for BIPOC students at...