Fall 2023 Issue
Featured Stories
ºÚÁÏ³Ô¹Ï 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, a 3-foot-3 droid at ºÚÁϳԹÏ'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 reflects on her first five years as president at ºÚÁÏ³Ô¹Ï and the role of trust in the university's achievements, including the development of ºÚÁÏ³Ô¹Ï Mission Valley, increased research funding, record student applications and philanthropic support.
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 ºÚÁÏ³Ô¹Ï historian Seth Mallios find it and other missing items?
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 ºÚÁÏ³Ô¹Ï Guardian Scholars Center was her way of doing that.
A young Cody Harris participated in a speech study at an ºÚÁÏ³Ô¹Ï lab in 2012, and now, a decade later, he returns as an ºÚÁÏ³Ô¹Ï student researcher to analyze the data he contributed as a child.
The ºÚÁÏ³Ô¹Ï 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, a San Diego–based attorney and philanthropist whose gifts frequently address societal inequities by providing greater opportunities for members of historically marginalized communities, gave in support of ºÚÁϳԹÏ’s Black Resource Center.
Interested in learning more about your alma mater? These 12 new self-guided tours are for you. Plus, ºÚÁÏ³Ô¹Ï just added a name to its War Memorial.
ºÚÁÏ³Ô¹Ï Alumni is always looking for ways to connect the ºÚÁÏ³Ô¹Ï community. This new digital hub brings ºÚÁÏ³Ô¹Ï networking to a whole new level.
In September, ºÚÁÏ³Ô¹Ï raised the curtain on the Performing Arts District. Here’s a behind-the-scenes look at everything the new space has to offer students and regional arts patrons.
Embracing their Mexican heritage, ºÚÁÏ³Ô¹Ï students examine the deep culinary ties that bind the state of Oaxaca to Southern California.
Vanessa Lytle had seemingly lost everything by the time she was 21 years old. But with strength and resolve, the ºÚÁÏ³Ô¹Ï senior is just months away from earning a degree - and fulfilling her late mother's wishes.
In the planning phases for ºÚÁÏ³Ô¹Ï Mission Valley, open space for the community was paramount to the university — and now the multiuse river park is nearing completion.















