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.
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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