# @arizonastateuniversity on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/CpSt-tFBxAZ
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/4524315-arizonastateuniversity-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2023-03-02T16:00:44.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Arizona State University (@arizonastateuniversity) — https://gondola.cc/arizonastateuniversity

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Today we’re celebrating #ASUFounders’ Day, ASU’s signature event honoring the changemakers whose pioneering achievements and visionary philanthropy have shaped ASU’s spirit of excellence and innovation. 

ASU celebrates Founders' Day to commemorate the first day of classroom instruction at the original Territorial Normal School in Tempe on Feb. 8, 1886.

This year's honorees:

🔱 Faculty Service Achievement Award: Dr. Carolyn Compton, an ASU professor of life sciences in @asu_sols, medical director of the Biodesign Clinical Testing Laboratory at the @asubiodesign and professor of laboratory medicine and pathology at the Mayo Clinic School of Medicine.

🔱 Faculty Service Achievement Award: Peter Buseck, a world-renowned researcher in solid-state geochemistry and mineralogy, cosmochemistry and atmospheric geochemistry, and faculty member in @sms.asu and @earthspaceexplorationasu. 

🔱 Faculty Research Achievement Award: Karen Mossberger, the Frank and June Sackton Professor in @asupublicservice’s @asupublicaffairs.

🔱 Faculty Teaching Award: Sara Brownell, an internationally recognized neuroscientist turned full-time education researcher at @asuthecollege.

🔱 Alumni Achievement Award: @asuthecollege alumna (1987), Laurie Leshin, an internationally recognized geochemist, space scientist and first female director of @nasajpl.

🔱 Young Alumni Achievement Award: @wpcareyschool alumnus (2014), Vivek Kopparthi, co-founder and executive chairman of NeoLight, LLC.

🔱 Philanthropist of the Year Award, presented by @asufoundation: For over 30 years, the Dorrance Family Foundation has dedicated its resources to improving communities and the environment through education and natural resource conservation.

Tap the link in our bio (@arizonastateuniversity) to learn more about this year’s honorees: http://ow.ly/tGmY50N7c0l

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