ASU's Week in Pictures By Lisa Robbins | March 06, 2014 ASU students attend the Farmers Market @ ASU Tempe on the Student Services Lawn. The market, which features seasonal produce, specialty food items produced in Arizona and ready-to-eat food and beverages, aims to promote sustainability, healthy eating and green living practices among students, faculty and staff. The sun sets on the Music Building and ASU Art Museum on the Tempe campus on a spring evening. Students check out the SPARKS table at the More 2 Explore Expo on Hayden Lawn, Feb. 17. Students Providing Awareness, Resources and Knowledge to Start college – or SPARKS – is a paraprofessional student organization of college student ambassadors who inspire and mentor junior high and high school students to prepare for and succeed in college. Shadae Bowen, an ASU senior in creative writing, talks to representatives from a law firm at the Humanities Career Fair. According to a recent report from the Association of American Colleges and Universities, liberal arts graduates fare better in the job market than most people think. Many ASU liberal arts students have the advantage of taking a cross-disciplinary approach to their studies, which can also give them a boost. Learn more about liberal arts at ASU. ASU women's basketball player Joy Burke studies at the Carson Center Computer Lab. Keynote speaker William Harris, CEO of Science Foundation Arizona, discusses the need to address climate change at the Arizona Solar Summit IV, Feb. 20 at Skysong. Rami Khouri discusses the dynamics of change in the Middle East at the College of Law Great Hall on the Tempe campus. Khouri is the director of the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs at the American University of Beirut, a fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School and the Dubai School of Government, as well as a columnist at the Beirut-based Daily Star newspaper. Heading to Seattle March 9 are juniors Joey Raiton, Lizelle Galaz and Alessandra Sica, officers of the Graphic Design Student Association (GDSA) in ASU's Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts. Several Seattle design firms will open their doors to more than 50 GDSA students, making the weeklong educational and inspirational trek. This year the annual trip was crowdfunded by PitchFunder, the ASU Foundation's new fundraising platform. Learn more Jay Kopelman, a retired Marine and author of the best-selling memoir "From Baghdad With Love: A Marine, the War, and a Dog Named Lava," toured the Tillman Tunnel with a group of Barrett, the Honors College students, Feb. 25. Barrett honors students pose for photos in the Tillman Tunnel, while visiting with retired Marine and author Jay Kopelman. Sparky poses with Blue Man Group, who performed at ASU Gammage Feb. 25-March 2. Students give out zero waste information at the Tempe campus Staff Appreciation BBQ, Feb. 26. ASU is committed to achieving zero solid waste across all campus locations by 2015. Learn more: cfo.asu.edu/zw Ray Anderson, ASU's new athletics director, speaks at the Tempe campus Staff Appreciation BBQ. ASU football coach Todd Graham speaks at the Tempe campus Staff Appreciation BBQ. Students perform at the Community World Festival, Feb. 27, on the Student Services Lawn. The festival featured cultural performances and booths about various organizations from around the community, as well as food from around the world. Maria Cruz-Torres, associate professor in the School of Transborder Studies, teaches a class on regional immigration to undergraduate students. Also a senior sustainability scientist in ASU's Global Institute of Sustainability, Cruz-Torres researches the role of small-scale fisheries in northwestern Mexico, how they contribute to food security and the role that women play in sustaining households in these fishery-dependent communities. Sami Mian, engineering student in Sun Devil Robotics, shows visiting students some of the capabilities of robots. The Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering hosted the third annual DiscoverE Day, an Engineering Open House, on Feb. 28. Over 1,100 students in grades 3-8 came to campus to explore hands-on engineering-related projects and activities. Visiting middle school students launched mini trebuchets, built straw rockets and tested their skills building cars to travel down a roller coaster at the third annual DiscoverE Day, hosted by the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering.