Who says adventure has to stop as we age? In fact, Eleanor Roosevelt once said, “The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.”
One of the standout characteristics of Mirabella at ASU, compared to other University-based Retirement Communities, is the vision for full integration of the Mirabella at ASU community into the ASU campus community.
It’s hard to believe this community has been open for just over a year now. In this short time, we have explored and accomplished so much in terms of our growth as a community and our integration with the ASU campus community.
Every quarter, we host ASU coaching staff for a “Coffee with Coaches” event to learn more about Sun Devil Athletics and the fantastic student athletes that we get to see in sporting events all year long. In early December, we hosted Women’s basketball Coach Charli Turner Thorne and Hockey Coach Greg Powers…
There’s no shortage of interesting research to discover and take part in! Because of its location on campus, Mirabella at ASU residents can choose to participate in a wide range of groundbreaking research still in discovery and development phases—essential to research becoming sophisticated enough for mainstream markets.
50 years of just about anything calls for a celebration, and now some very patient grads are finally getting their due. Graduates from the ASU classes of 1970 and 1971 celebrated a belated Golden Reunion at the winter graduation ceremony in December.
As the spring 2022 semester kicks off at ASU, learning is top of mind at Mirabella. Dr. Lisa Genova, neuroscientist and author of the book Still Alice, has a TED Talk about how specific types of learning can stave off the symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease, even when the odds are stacked against us.
This year marked the 6th Annual Herberger Institute Days— two days of workshops, performances, and conversation with students, faculty and, staff across the five schools: The School of Music, Dance, and Theatre; The School of Art; The Design School; The School of Arts, Media and Engineering; and the Sidney Poitier New American Film School.
Lindsey Beagley is the Director of Lifelong University Engagement for Mirabella at ASU and leads the vision for Mirabella’s full immersion into the ASU campus community. This includes designing new programs to promote intergenerational connections, purpose-driven engagement experiences, and lifelong learning.
Lindsey is a native Phoenician and lifelong Sun Devil having grown up around ASU’s campuses where her father has served on the faculty for the last 25 years. She earned a BA (Spanish), BS (Psychology) and a Master of Public Administration from ASU. As an undergraduate, she worked as a strategic research analyst for President Crow’s New American University model, and a decade later returned as a University Innovation Fellow experimenting with ways to blur the traditional bounds of the university and the community it serves.
In 2021, Lindsey was awarded Phoenix Business Journal’s 40 Under 40 award and is passionate about connecting generations and innovating the future of university-based retirement living.
