ASU, the only research university in Metro Phoenix, is home to 61,000 students on its four metro campuses.

Over $300 million is being invested in the expansion and construction of research facilities across all ASU campuses.  Facilities include the Biodesign Institute at ASU, the Macrotechnology Works, the Decision Theater, and three Interdisciplinary Science & Technology Buildings.

The Biodesign Institute integrates biotechnology, information technology and nano technology.  Led by world-reknown scientist and businessman George Poste, the Institute is organized into a rapidly growing number of research centers staffed by top scientists in diverse disciplines. The Institute hosts four National Academy members, employs 489 individuals and became the Valley’s largest generator of federal biomedical research funding in the first year of operation in its new facility. The Institute represents the largest investment in infrastructure in Arizona, currently comprising nearly 350,000 sq. ft. of research space and master planned to total nearly 800,000 sq. ft. when complete. (www.biodesign.org)

The Biodesign Institute was chosen as the “Laboratory of the Year” by R&D Magazine (May 2006).

The MacroTechnology Works (MTW) is a state of the art facility built by Motorola.  The MTW seeks large-scale intensive collaborations with industry and other partners to rapidly develop applied consumer-driven innovations.  It houses the Flexible Display Center at Arizona State University (FDC). (http://mtw.asu.edu/; http://flexdisplay.asu.edu/)

The Global Institute for Sustainability (GIS) operates programs such as the Consortium for the Study of Rapidly Urbanizing Regions, the Decision Theater, Decision Center for a Desert City, and the Urban Environmental Monitoring of 100 Cities, brining together life, earth, and social scientists, engineers, and government and industry leaders to share knowledge and develop practical solutions to the environmental, economic, and social challenges of sustainable development. (http://sustainability.asu.edu/gios/index.htm)

ASU Technopolis leverages the broad expertise and resources of the university to spur innovation in Greater Phoenix by developing and executing a series of programs that educate, coach and network technology and life science entrepreneurs both within and outside of the university. (www.asutechnopolis.org)

Arizona Technology Enterprises (AzTE) brings together ASU’s researchers and industry partners to transform scientific discoveries into marketable products and services.  AzTE transfers technologies invested at ASU to the private sector by mining university research, prosecuting patents, negotiating licenses and marketing inventions. (www.AzTE.com)

Connection One is a National Science Foundation Industry/University Cooperative Research Center.  Its research focuses on communications circuits and systems to enable higher integration and smaller communication devices to facilitate system-on-a-chip (SOC). (www.connectionone.org)

Institute for Computing and Information Sciences and Engineering (InCISE) fosters interdisciplinary research, education and entrepreneurship in the broad area of computer and information science. The goal is to leverage selective investments in collaborative, interdisciplinary projects to build partnerships between researchers, improve internal and external visibility and generate successful larger scale collaborative proposals. (http://incise.asu.edu/)

ASU researchers are leading the current Mars rover missions from the Jet Propulsion Lab in Pasadena and the ASU Mars Space Flight Facility in Tempe.

The Flexible Display Center (FDC) at ASU was awarded a $43.5 million, five-year cooperative agreement from the US Army to develop flexible, low-power computer displays.

ASU-Polytechnic Campus has one of the three fully accredited PV (photovoltaic) test labs in the United States.

ASU’s College of Technology and Applied Sciences is the first and only higher education institution in the state to offer a fully operational semiconductor fabrication laboratory.

ASU’s College of Technology and Applied Sciences is the only university in Arizona that has a state-of-the-art CNC machining laboratory with five-axis capability.

ASU is the only state university in Arizona conducting research on team performance relating to unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), research in aviation training and vision perception relating to flight.

The Center for Research on Education in Science, Mathematics, Engineering and Technology (CRESMET) at Arizona State University is using nearly $20 million in National Science Foundation grants to develop the science and math programs needed to prepare a world-class technical workforce.

ASU’s Modeling Instruction Program is the only high school science program recognized as Exemplary by the US Department of Education.

ASU’s Science is Fun Program enhances K-12 student interest in science by bringing exciting, minds-on science demonstrations to over 15,000 K-12 students across the Phoenix metropolitan area annually.

The Chronicle of Higher Education ranks ASU's technology transfer efforts in the top 10 nationally by number of inventions disclosed and patent applications per $1 million spending on research.

ASU’s research portfolio experienced a 28% growth over the past two years.  The FY 2005 total was approximately $166.5 million.

UA, established in 1885, is one of the nation’s top 20 public research institutions, offering more than 300 degree programs through 150 academic units.

UA ranks 14th among public universities in the most recent National Science Foundation published rankings of academic research expenditures.

UA faculty and alumni have won 11 Nobel and Pulitzer prizes.

The University of Arizona has a total impact statewide of $2.3 billion annually and employs 14,484 employees.

UA is ranked in the top 5 for the MIS Program at the Eller College of Management; the College of Pharmacy; the Applied Mathematics Program in the College of Science; the Plant Genetics and Genomics Programs in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences; and the Population Biology Program at the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology in the College of Science.

The Arizona Center Center – Arizona’s first National Cancer Institute – ranks 16th among 40 comprehensive cancer centers, in receiving the largest amount of grant funding from the National Cancer Institute.

The University Medical Center, is among the nation’s best hospitals for 10 areas of specialty medical care (US News and World Report’s Annual Guide to America’s Best Hospitals, October 2005).

In the last 5 years, the UA’s cancer research programs have received $257 million in grant funding.

To respond to a critical shortage of nursing faculty, the UA created the nation’s first online-nursing Ph.D. program at a research-intensive university.

UA has the only full complement of human health sciences center in Arizona including the College of Medicine, College of Pharmacy, College of Nursing and College of Public Health.

UA surgeons were first in the world to successfully use a totally artificial heart as a bridge to transplant and they were the first to win approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for that same device in August 2004.

The award-winning Arizona Telemedicine Program provides health care via video and telephone to more than 70 rural Arizona communities.

BIO5 at the University of Arizona is a collaborative bioresearch institute bringing together scientists from 5 disciplines—agriculture, medicine, pharmacy, basic science and engineering—to solve complex biological problems. BIO5 creates science, education and industry partnerships to disseminate knowledge and apply the knowledge gained to treat disease, feed humanity and preserve livable environments. (BIO5: www.bio5.org)

UA’s BIO5 Institute for Collaborative Research generated $75 million in federal research funds for Arizona and created nearly 150 jobs.

UA is leading the genomics analyses for the National Geographics - Genographic Project, which is tracing family trees back to the beginning of mankind.

UA has deciphered the complete rice genome to find ways to combat diseases and pests that threaten the world's most important food source.

UA created an environmentally benign silicon wafer-making process used by Intel.

UA’s Department of Hydrology and Water Resources has been ranked by US News & World Report magazine the nation’s number one graduate program in Hydrogeology for the last six years.

UA is the world’s leading water research university, working to ensure clean, pure and reliable water supplier throughout the nation and around the globe.

The UA-led International Arid Lands Consortium has been awarded more than $12 million since 1003 to research dryland vegetation, soil erosion, storm water harvesting and biological pest control.

UA’s Eller School of Business ranked 5th best among public institutions in the West in a Forbes 2005 magazine ranking.

Recognized internationally for its strong research programs, the University of Arizona Optical Sciences Center (OSC) is considered a national asset for technical leadership in all the sciences related to optics and the technologies and industries enabled by optics.

The UA Optical Sciences Center (OSC) is ranked # 1 in the US and is home to the Center for Optoelectronic Devices, Interconnects, and Packaging.

A team of University of Arizona Engineering faculty and students built a "Smart Car" that steers along a mapped road, adjusting its speed to stay in lane and at a safe distance from other cars. Funded by the Arizona Department of Transportation, the project's first target is a two-hour commute between Tucson and Phoenix on Interstate 10.

The University of Arizona is leading a group of colleges and research institutions to build the $87 million Large Binocular Telescope. The telescope, scheduled for completion in 2005, is expected to be more powerful than the Hubble Space Telescope and will be the largest of its kind.

Arizona's status as the astronomy capital of the world is bolstered by the University of Arizona's development of the Gamma Ray Spectrometer that will soon begin mapping elements on Mars from NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft. The University of Arizona's $31 million "HiRISE" camera has been selected for launch on the 2005 Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.

UA’s planetary and space sciences program were awarded a $325 million grant by NASA to lead the 2007 mission to Mars.

The UA's Steward Observatory is the largest of five centers of observatories and astronomy research in Arizona, a state known as a leader in astronomy research. Astronomy facilities at the UA are worth an estimated $400 million and employ over 600 people. The combined budget for the UA's observatories and astronomy research totals $53 million.

In October 2005, NAU and the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) were awarded a multi-million dollar grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services that encompasses several projects, the first of which aims to improve the understanding and management of sepsis and community acquired pneumonia (CAP).

The NAU Ecological Restoration Institute landed $1.6 million in 2006 federal appropriations, to promote forest health and developing science-based restoration treatments that return forests to ecological health while reducing threats of unnatural wildfire.

NAU has been selected as one of eight new members of the National Council for Minorities in Engineering Scholars Program. As a result, NAU will receive scholarship funds of $225,000 payable at $45,000 a year for five years.

In fiscal year 2004, NAU had $21.1 million in research grants, $17.2 million in public service grants, and $12.1 million in instruction grants.

NAU was selected, along with Duke, Penn State, and Michigan Tech, for a $10 million award to host the National Institute for Climatic Change Research

NAU recently was awarded a grant from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to help develop engineering software that will lead to quieter helicopters.

Groundbreaking began at the Applied Research and Development building.  NAU’s green building design for the Applied Research and Development building has garnered the first annual Bill Kicksey Environmental Achievement award from Arizona Environmental Leadership through Mentoring.

NAU launched a Campus Sustainability Strategy Plan that addresses nearly every aspect of the campus as an ecosystem.

Federal legislation was signed naming the Ecological Restoration Institute at NAU as one of three regional institutes that will help land management.