The 2004 ASU President’s Award for Global Engagement went to a team including students in the Fulton Schools for their work with students at the Addis Ababa Institute of Technology to reduce the amount of plastic pollution being left in Ethiopia’s Simien Mountains National Park. The project included developing a pipeline using small machines to transform plastic waste into valuable goods to be sold for profit by people living outside the park. The President’s Awards recognize solutions in innovation, social embeddedness, sustainability, global engagement and transdisciplinary collaboration. They also celebrate the commitment and contributions of ASU employees.