page_title: Arizona State University
section_title: Faculty
hierarchical_section_title: Arizona State University / People / Faculty
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Pressekonferenz mit den Preisträgern des Preises für Wirtschaftswissenschaften 2009 an der KVA: Elinor Ostrom. English: Press conference with the laureates of the memorial prize in economic sciences 2009 at the KVA: Elinor Ostrom. Français&#160;: Conférence de presse avec la lauréate du prix de la Banque de Suède en sciences économiques en mémoire d'Alfred Nobel 2009 à la KVA: Elinor Ostrom. Svenska: Presskonferens med pristagare av pris i ekonomisk vetenskap år 2009 på KVA: Elinor Ostrom.
context_page_description: Arizona State University is a public metropolitan research university on five campuses across the Phoenix metropolitan area, and four regional learning centers throughout Arizona.
  ASU is one of the largest public universities by enrollment in the U.S. As of fall 2019, the university had nearly 90,000 students attending classes across its metro campuses, more than 38,000 students attending online, including 83,000-plus undergraduates and more nearly 20,000 postgraduates. The university is organized into 17 colleges, featuring more than 170 cross-discipline centers and institutes. ASU offers 350 degree options for undergraduates students, as well as more than 400 graduate degree and certificate programs.
  ASU has nearly 600 ASU scholar-athletes across 26 varsity-level sports. The Arizona State Sun Devils compete in the Pac-12 Conference and have won 59 Pac-10/Pac-12 championships dating back to 1979, and have captured 24 NCAA championships dating to its first title in 1965. In addition to its athletic program, the university is home to over 1,100 registered student organizations.
context_section_description: ASU faculty have included former CNN host Aaron Brown, meta-analysis developer Gene V. Glass, feminist and author Gloria Feldt, physicist Paul Davies, and Pulitzer Prize winner and The Ants coauthor Bert Hölldobler. David Kilcullen, a counterinsurgency theorist, is a professor of practice. Donald Johanson, who discovered the 3.18 million year old fossil hominid Lucy (Australopithecus) in Ethiopia, is also a professor, as well as George Poste, Chief Scientist for the Complex Adaptive Systems Initiative. Nobel laureate faculty include Leland Hartwell, and Edward C. Prescott. On June 12, 2012 Elinor Ostrom, ASU's third Nobel laureate, died at the age of 78.
  ASU faculty's achievements as of 2012 include:
  4 Nobel laureates
  3 members of the Royal Society
  27 National Academy members
  6 Pulitzer Prize winners
  5 Sloan Research Fellows
  25 Guggenheim Fellows
  114 Fulbright American Scholars
  1 MacArthur Fellow
  11 Members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  65 American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellows
  2 members of the Institute of Medicine
  8 Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers
  8 American Council of Learned Societies Fellows
  34 IEEE Fellows
  19 Alexander Von Humboldt Foundation Prize Winners
  1 Recipient of the Rockefeller Fellowship
caption: Elinor Ostrom
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