These days, Lindy Elkins-Tanton is living out a Talking Heads song lyric: She’s keeping her feet on the ground and her head in the sky.


Older person seen from behind, seated in a wheelchair in a bedroom, looking out a window.

When the death of an older adult is considered suspicious, their body is sent to the Maricopa County Office of the Medical Examiner. But it can be difficult to determine the exact cause of injuries and decide whether abuse is to blame. An ASU research project aims to help with this process.



People sit at desks full of several monitors displaying footage of activity taking place around a college campus.

ASU Police's Real Time Analysis Center takes multiple state-of-the-art information systems and combines them with open-source internet tools and secure law enforcement databases to create a single, integrated center to provide better support to officers on the ground.



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