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1. Tempe

   • Tempe Campus

     Please follow this route for a general tour of campus.

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     1. Future Sun Devil Welcome Center

        (CAVC) The Future Sun Devil Welcome Center hosts the Experience ASU campus visit programs for all future students. 

         

        This building is a mixed-use facility including the Future Sun Devil Welcome Center, the ASU School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment, and the Sun Devil Marketplace. The facility provides mediated classrooms, offices, labs, and collaboration and study spaces for Del E. Webb School of Construction, Construction Engineering, the Alliance for Construction Excellence, and the Civil, Environmental and Sustainable Engineering department. The building also features a Tech Studio location, which provides tech support for computer problems.

     2. Wrigley Hall

        (WGHL)

        Wrigley Hall accommodates ASU's School of Sustainability and Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability. The building is named in honor of Julie Ann Wrigley, who made a significant contribution to ASU to establish the Global Institute of Sustainability in 2004. The institute is home to the first School of Sustainability in the U.S., established in spring 2007.

        
        The building's most visible features, the roof wind turbines, are a functional reminder that ASU is committed to renewable energy sources. The building was renovated in 2006 utilizing sustainable products, including high-recycled content materials, low-emitting indoor paints and GreenGuard certified furniture. The building is designed to take advantage of the abundant natural sunlight available, and utilizes an occupancy sensor-controlled lighting system. Water efficiency fixtures are incorporated throughout the building.

        
        The 48,800 square foot building includes six classrooms and is located near a light-rail station on Cady Mall, at the corner of University and College Avenues.

     3. Hayden Library

        (LIB) The ASU Libraries are composed of eight facilities at ASU’s campuses and offer a wide variety of electronic services. The Libraries produce podcasts, videos and the award-winning Library Minute series to inform the ASU community about services and events.
        
        The Charles Trumbull Hayden Library, the main library on the Tempe campus, houses materials in the humanities and social sciences, including business and education. Also featured at the Hayden Library are several special collections, including the Arizona Collection, the Labriola National Indian Data Center, the Arizona Historical Foundation, the Chicano Research Collection and the University Archives.
        
        Hayden Library is known for its grand stairway leading below ground to the main entrance and an open-air garden courtyard. Above ground, the ASU landmark called the "beacon of knowledge" is illuminated at night by the interior lights of the library below.
        
        Hayden Library is currently undergoing a reinvention known as Hayden 2020.

     4. Farmer Education Building

        (ED/EDB/EDC) Students considering a career in education should investigate ASU’s Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College, housed in the H.B. Farmer Education Building and I.D. Payne Hall. ASU’s roots are in teacher preparation; the university began as a normal school in 1885. Today, students prepare for careers in the classroom by mixing lectures with multiple hours observing, interning and student teaching. 
        
        Teachers College’s groundbreaking iTeachAZ program - the only one of its kind in Arizona - more than doubles the amount of time most future teachers spend in the classroom. This model of teacher preparation provides greater clinical experience through intensive student teaching experiences.

     5. Student Services Building

        (SSV) centralizes the majority of services for students, from applying for admission to interviewing for the first professional job.
        
        Offices located within the building include:
         
        Admission Services
        Career and Professional Development Services
        Cashiering Services
        Counseling and Consultation
        Dean of Students
        Financial Aid and Scholarship Services
        International Student and Scholar Center
        Student Business Services
        University Registrar Services

     6. Memorial Union

        (MU) The Memorial Union is a popular hub of campus activity and is the place to be whether relaxing during class breaks or grabbing something to eat. The MU offers many amenities such as restaurants, a market, an Interfaith Reflection Room, copy center, banking services and Sparky's Den, a recreation center featuring table tennis, billiards and a TV lounge.
        
        The MU is home to the Pat Tillman Veterans Center, a single point of contact that provides veterans a welcoming space with centralized staff, resources and services to enhance veterans' educational success as they transition from military life and progress toward graduation.
        
        Changemaker Central is located on the first floor of the MU. This is a student-run space focused on helping students change the world through service, civic engagement, sustaintability and entrepreneurship and innovation.

     7. W.P. Carey School of Business Buildings

        (BA/BAC/MCRD) With five academic departments ranked in the top 25 in the U.S., the W. P. Carey School of Business is the second largest college at ASU. W. P. Carey School faculty members are ranked among the top 10 percent in the U.S. for their research. Regents’ Professor Edward C. Prescott, the W. P. Carey chair of economics, received the 2004 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences.
        
        The business complex is composed of the Business Administration building, the Business Administration C-Wing and McCord Hall. The W. P. Carey School of Business is located in the heart of the ASU campus with spacious courtyards and peaceful water fountains connecting the business buildings together. This is a gathering place for students to study, relax or have a cup of coffee at Starbucks, which is located on the first floor in the Business Administration C-Wing. 

     8. Sun Devil Fitness Complex Tempe

        (SDFCT) serves as the main facility for recreational sports, intramural sports and general physical wellness. The SDFCT features a variety of exercise equipment, including adaptive equipment for students with injuries or disabilities. The swimming pool, one of the longest recreational collegiate pools in the country, is open year-round. The large, outdoor multi-use field is lined by a popular jogging track. At ASU, students can compete in  intramural sports, participate sports clubs, take group fitness classes, play racquetball, or work out nearly any time. Students are automatically members of the SDFC on every campus through payment of the student-initiated recreation fee. 

     9. Barrett, the Honors College Academic Complex

        Barrett, the Honors College created the nation’s first four-year, honors residential college within a top tier public university.
        
        The honors campus, located in the South Neighborhood, is complete with open courtyards and breezeways, a community center with lounges, study spaces and computer labs, 12 classrooms, College administration, a cafe, and a fitness center. Amenities include an amphitheater, outside activity courts and a dining hall with a covered terrace, garden and special dining rooms for events.
        
        It also features the Sustainability House at Barrett, a student-run organization committed to sustainability and social justice issues.

     10. Interdisciplinary Science and Technology Building 4

         (ISTB4) Interdisciplinary Science and Technology Building 4 is a new and innovative research building on the Tempe campus. The building opened in early May 2012, and is the largest single research building at ASU, at more than 300,000 square feet. Through innovative architecture, the building incorporates various types of laboratory spaces, clean rooms, administrative and office spaces and high bay spaces and a 250-seat auditorium.
         
         The first two floors are home to the Gallery of Scientific Exploration and houses interactive displays to engage the public in the history and future of scientific exploration. Student docents can help explain the displays the research being conducted in the building.
         
         The 250-seat Marston Exploration Theater provides public 3D astonomy shows each week using Definiti SkySkan Planetarium technology using 4K projection systems. 

     11. Sun Devil Campus Store

         (BKSTR) The Sun Devil Campus Stores are the official bookstore for ASU and the only retailer guaranteed to offer every textbook for every class at the university.
         
         Get into the ASU spirit! The Sun Devil Campus Stores sell textbooks, used books, academic supplies, art supplies and ASU logo clothing and gifts. Students can rent textbooks, or enjoy the convenience and savings of digital textbooks and ebooks.

     12. Computing Commons

         (CPCOM) Computing Commons is the center of information technology and computing for ASU. The Commons’ Atrium is an open access, 225-workstation computing site complete with Mac and Windows workstations. The Commons also provides wired classrooms and meeting spaces.
         
         ASU has four general computing labs around the Tempe campus, as well as many located within academic departments and residence halls. 

     13. Palm Walk

         Palm Walk is the most photographed site at the Tempe campus and is a popular corridor among students, faculty members, staff and university visitors alike. Palm Walk extends from the University Bridge on the north to the Sun Devil Fitness Complex on the south.
         
         The Palm Walk three-phase rehabilitation project began in summer 2016 and was completed in 2018. The original Mexican fan palms, with a history dating to 1917, were nearing the end of their life cycle. The new date palms along the path provide more shade for pedestrians and fruit for the university’s annual date harvest.

     14. Student Pavilion

         Located in the center of student life at ASU's Tempe campus, the Student Pavilion is a multi-use event space for guest lectures, concerts, comedic performances and student productions. The focal point of the pavilion is a multi-use event space with seating for up to 1,200. The event space can also be transformed into three smaller event or meeting rooms.

         
         The Student Pavilion is designed as a net zero energy building, having a goal to produce as much as energy as it uses on an annual basis to complement the larger university goal of climate net neutrality and sustainable building systems.

         
         Offices for Undergraduate Student Government, cultural coalitions, and the Programs and Activities Board are located on the second floor with interactive academic classrooms and University Academic Success Programs located on the third floor.

     15. Old Main

         (MAIN) Constructed before Arizona achieved statehood, Old Main represents a rich tradition for Arizona State University and the state. Old Main has been refurbished to period standards, and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It is now home to the ASU Alumni Association.

          

         Originally dedicated February 4, 1898, it was the first building in Tempe wired for electric lighting. President Teddy Roosevelt dedicated the Roosevelt Dam from the front stairway in 1911.

          

     16. Health Service Building

         (HSB) ASU Health Services is ASU’s fully accredited outpatient student health care clinic.

         
         March 2012 saw the completion of a renovation and expansion that added nearly 20,000 square feet of new space. The new building offers acute care services, an allergy clinic, women’s health services, contraception services, primary care, sports medicine and preventative health care, some at no charge.
         
         

         Campus Health Service also offers a range of health education and wellness services, including smoking cessation programs, massage therapy, stress management and nutrition counseling.

     17. University Bridge

         (UNIVBRIDGE) 

         Admire the view from the University Bridge, which creates a pedestrian overpass connecting students from the north campus residence halls, athletic facilities, and parking lots to the central campus area.

         
         The bridge was constructed for pedestrian use, and to house the power lines connecting the north side of campus to the central campus buildings. The steps were designed by a chiropractor to place the least amount of pressure on the lower back and legs.

         
         Bridging University Drive, the footpath is the northern entrance of Palm Walk.