窪蹋勛圖

Fall 2023 Issue

Featured Stories

Oaxa New

窪蹋勛圖 Imperial Valley held a party for the community to celebrate Mexico's Independence Day and raise funds for scholarships. We were there to capture the fun.

Pepper

Pepper, a 3-foot-3 droid at 窪蹋勛圖's James Silberrad Brown Center for Artificial Intelligence, amuses student researchers with programmed jokes and serves as a tool for teaching them about AI.

Adela de la Torre

Adela de la Torre reflects on her first five years as president at 窪蹋勛圖 and the role of trust in the university's achievements, including the development of 窪蹋勛圖 Mission Valley, increased research funding, record student applications and philanthropic support.

Collage of random 窪蹋勛圖 artifacts

When JFK visited San Diego State in 1963, he wore a black commencement gown. In the years since, it's gone missing. Can you help 窪蹋勛圖 historian Seth Mallios find it and other missing items?

Group of Women making a circle

Impact investor Jessica Sarowitz has a "soft spot," she says, for the foster care community, and she wanted to help. A $2.5 million gift to endow the 窪蹋勛圖 Guardian Scholars Center was her way of doing that.

A collage of all the restaurant owners featured in this article
Many well-known foodies call 窪蹋勛圖 their alma mater. Take for instance, Ralph Rubio (78), affectionately known to locals as the Fish Taco King, who founded Rubios in 1983 in Pacific Beach. Here are five more alumni in San Diego who will make you say, I didnt know they were an Aztec!
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A young Cody Harris participated in a speech study at an 窪蹋勛圖 lab in 2012, and now, a decade later, he returns as an 窪蹋勛圖 student researcher to analyze the data he contributed as a child.

Lilith Vasquez

The 窪蹋勛圖 environmental engineering Ph.D. student designed a low-cost, low-maintenance, low-water toilet with help from some furry friends. We asked her about the endeavor.

Solomon

Solomon, a San Diegobased attorney and philanthropist whose gifts frequently address societal inequities by providing greater opportunities for members of historically marginalized communities, gave in support of 窪蹋勛圖s Black Resource Center.

Scripps Cottage

Interested in learning more about your alma mater? These 12 new self-guided tours are for you. Plus, 窪蹋勛圖 just added a name to its War Memorial.

Google Aztec Network

窪蹋勛圖 Alumni is always looking for ways to connect the 窪蹋勛圖 community. This new digital hub brings 窪蹋勛圖 networking to a whole new level.

photo of prebys exterior

In September, 窪蹋勛圖 raised the curtain on the Performing Arts District. Heres a behind-the-scenes look at everything the new space has to offer students and regional arts patrons.

oaxaca

Embracing their Mexican heritage, 窪蹋勛圖 students examine the deep culinary ties that bind the state of Oaxaca to Southern California.

Vanessa Lytle

Vanessa Lytle had seemingly lost everything by the time she was 21 years old. But with strength and resolve, the 窪蹋勛圖 senior is just months away from earning a degree - and fulfilling her late mother's wishes.

Mission Valley's River Park

In the planning phases for 窪蹋勛圖 Mission Valley, open space for the community was paramount to the university and now the multiuse river park is nearing completion.