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Jul 21, 2021

ASU Biomimicry Center creates lessons for kids about nature’s innovations

Downloadable science kits include design challenge for middle schoolers

When it’s 115 degrees outside, wolves pant, tortoises burrow underground and elephants flap their ears.

All of those adaptations keep animals cool in desert climates and can inspire sustainable innovations ...

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Apr 27, 2021

Biomimicry Student Highlighted as one of ASU’s “Notable Spring 2021 Graduates”

Congratulations to all of our biomimicry grads, who are completing either their MS or certificate program in the next few weeks!

One of our students graduating this semester, Louwie Gan,...

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Mar 24, 2021

Innovating From Life: Biomimicry Modules

New Biomimicry Canvas Course Modules Now Available to ASU Faculty!

Are you looking for an easy way to incorporate the groundbreaking practice of biomimicry into your course? Check out NatureMaker’s new “Innovating from Life” series. “Innovating from Life” is a...

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Dec 28, 2020

Affiliate Faculty Publication

New publication titled “Using Biomimicry to Support Resilient Infrastructure Design” Read here....

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Aug 27, 2020

Congratulations to the Biomimicry Center Assistant Director!

Congratulations to TBC Assistant Director Adelheid Fischer for receiving a 2020 Research and Development Grant and the Bill Desmond Writing Award in Creative Non-Fiction from the Arizona Commission on the ...

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Aug 10, 2020

15 MOST UNUSUAL COLLEGE DEGREES (YOU’VE PROBABLY NEVER HEARD OF)

Biomimicry made the list!

College Consensus has put together a list of some of the most unusual degree programs in the US (and one global online). Read more here. ...

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Jul 07, 2020

Where the Wild Things Are

In the pandemic lockdown, people are discovering the spectacular nature in their own backyards.

New article from Assistant Director Heidi Fischer. Read on Medium here. “Slowing down and staying put during the pandemic have created new opportunities for people to encounter nature on their...

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Jun 10, 2020

Biomimicry Affiliate Faculty Research Publication

ASU engineer working on digging robots inspired by the motions of razor clams

Read the full ASU Now article here.

“As anyone who has ever used a shovel knows, the only way to dig is by using force. But many animals, including ...

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May 18, 2020

Life Finds a Way: Lessons from the Eruption of Mount St. Helens Forty Years Later

May 18 marks the 40th anniversary of the eruption of Mount St. Helens. Writer Adelheid Fischer and photographer Buzzy Sullivan offer this meditation on the lessons we’ve learned about how nature responds to catastrophic disturbance.

Full article here. Adelheid Fischer is the assistant director of the Biomimicry Center at Arizona State University, a collaboration between ASU and Biomimicry 3.8 that facilitates biomimicry education and research. ...

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Mar 24, 2020

Beautiful message from Biomimicry 3.8 on how to reconnect with nature during this time

Dear Biomimicry Community,

In these unprecedented times, trepidations about the unknowns ahead are common feelings. While we don’t have answers, we at B3.8 are taking comfort in nature—her resilience, her ...

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