Next Lab associate Luan Nguyen attended an OpenAI town hall in San Francisco as part of the ChatGPT Lab cohort — and left with more than just takeaways. He left having shaped the conversation.

This morning, Next Lab welcomed 28 higher education educators from Fulbright Taiwan to campus. They came to see student-led innovation in action — and our students delivered.

Something significant landed at Arizona State University this week, and we’ve been waiting to talk about it. ASU was among the first institutions in the world to receive the NVIDIA DGX Spark and we watched with no small amount of excitement as our own CIO Lev Gonick accepted the delivery on campus. Two ASU teams…

We joined a conference that put students front and center in the AI conversation — and the room felt it. Here’s what went down at ASU’s “Agentic AI and the Student Experience.”

We’re bringing four of our most ambitious projects to the ASU Technology Engage 2025 Expo. Come see AI, spatial computing, and game technology built by and for the ASU community

Next Lab is heading to Colombia. Jorge De Cossio will represent ASU at the XXX Encuentro Internacional 2025, sharing how student-led innovation is reshaping learning in the digital age.

In a partnership with Mayo Clinic, a team of Next Lab student workers are creating a virtual reality training simulation for medical students to practice diagnosing strokes. This proof-of-concept features hyper-realistic 3D models of medical patients that are able to be directly interacted with using VR hand-tracking controls and voice-recognition. Using the National Institutes of…

On February 28, 2025, hundreds of ASU educators, technologists, students, and student success professionals gathered at FOLC (Future of Learning Community) Fest to shine a light on how principled innovation has shaped their work, guided their practices, and echoed ASU’s charter commitments. As part of this event, Dr. Bea Rodriguez-Fransen, Director at ASU Next Lab…

In addition to serving on the design committee of the 100Yr EdTech Summit 2025, ASU Next Lab Co-founder and Director Dr. Bea Rodriguez-Fransen authored and collaborated with StoryCenter to produce the future scenario “Declaration Day: A ‘Major’ Reset.” Of the 33 future scenarios that were submitted to the summit this year, Rodriguez-Fransen’s was voted by…

Join the movement to create safer, healthier, and thriving work environments Have you ever witnessed or experienced workplace bullying? You’re not alone—and it’s more common than you might think. Unlike harassment, workplace bullying often flies under the radar, but its effects are just as serious. It can impact mental and physical health, decrease morale, and…