ASU | Faces of TRIF

Using Bacteria to Clean Up Waste Water

by Admin | Dec 17, 2019 | A Better World, ASU, Innovations, Universities

“The concept of wastes or waste products is obsolete – the focus and the future are used resource recovery.” Dr. Bruce Rittmann Dr. Bruce Rittmann, Ph.D., is the director of the Swette Center for Environmental Biotechnology at the Biodesign Institute at Arizona State...

Developing A Cancer Vaccine

by Admin | Dec 17, 2019 | ASU, Improving Health, Innovations, Universities

For more than a decade, scientist Stephen Albert Johnston and his team at Arizona State University’s Biodesign Institute have pooled their energies into an often scoffed-at, high-risk, high-reward goal in medicine: to develop a universal vaccine to prevent cancer. In...

Water Detectives

by Admin | Dec 15, 2019 | A Better World, ASU, Universities

Environmental entrepreneurs receive national recognition Identified as “a powerful new model for the environmental field,” Professor Rolf Halden’s One Water One Health, an environmental justice organization, launched at the Biodesign Institute at Arizona State...

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Innovating for Arizonans

The TRIF initiative, or Technology and Research Initiative Fund, increased the state’s sales tax per proposition 301 to promote university research, development, and technology transfer related to the knowledge-based global economy and to expand access to baccalaureate or post-baccalaureate education, among other priorities. TRIF Priorities include: Improving Health; Water, Environment & Energy Solutions; Space Exploration & Optical Solutions; and Defense & Security Systems. For the most recent Arizona Board of Regents TRIF Annual Report visit the ABOR site.