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Arizona State University was founded on the 12th of March 1885, as the Territorial Normal School at Tempe. It was established by the 13th Arizona Territorial Legislature to train teachers for the Arizona Territory. Classes began on the 8th of February 1886, with 33 students.
The institution carried six different names before becoming Arizona State University. Voters approved the current name in 1958 by a 2-to-1 margin. Two other names were considered at the time: Tempe University and State University at Tempe.
Michael M. Crow has served as ASU's 16th president since the 1st of July 2002. At his inauguration he introduced the vision of transforming ASU into a "New American University" focused on openness and inclusion.
Arizona State University has 160,051 students enrolled, with 81,541 attending online. The university operates across four campuses in the Phoenix metropolitan area and regional learning centers throughout Arizona.
Grady Gammage Memorial Auditorium is an auditorium on the Tempe campus designed by architect Frank Lloyd Wright. It was completed in 1964, five years after both President Grady Gammage and Frank Lloyd Wright had died.
ASU ranks in the top ten nationally for NASA-funded research and has produced the Ebola therapeutic ZMapp, developed through work by professor Charles Arntzen in the Biodesign Institute. The university also led NASA's $450 million Psyche asteroid mission, headed by ASU scientist Lindy Elkins-Tanton. Skysong Innovations, ASU's IP company, has launched more than 180 companies and attracted more than $999 million in venture funding.