A mobile temperature-measuring tool owned by ASU Associate Professor Ariane Middel, a faculty member in ASU’s new The GAME School who has affiliations with the Fulton Schools, has been instrumental in recent research aimed at helping to find safe ways for young students to stay healthy and active in hotter climates such as those of much of Arizona. The team involved in the project is working with the Arizona Department of Health Services and Arizona Department of Education to develop a tool kit designed to help guide efforts to assist people in coping with hot outdoor environments and contribute information for a HeatReady Schools initiative. Middel’s affiliations also include one with ASU’s Urban Climate Research Center and the SHaDE Lab.

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