Fall 2023 Issue
Featured Stories
ºÚ¹Ï³ÔÁÏÍø 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 ºÚ¹Ï³ÔÁÏÍø'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 ºÚ¹Ï³ÔÁÏÍø and the role of trust in the university's achievements, including the development of ºÚ¹Ï³ÔÁÏÍø 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 ºÚ¹Ï³ÔÁÏÍø 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 ºÚ¹Ï³ÔÁÏÍø Guardian Scholars Center was her way of doing that.
A young Cody Harris participated in a speech study at an ºÚ¹Ï³ÔÁÏÍø lab in 2012, and now, a decade later, he returns as an ºÚ¹Ï³ÔÁÏÍø student researcher to analyze the data he contributed as a child.
The ºÚ¹Ï³ÔÁÏÍø 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 ºÚ¹Ï³ÔÁÏ꿉۪s Black Resource Center.
Interested in learning more about your alma mater? These 12 new self-guided tours are for you. Plus, ºÚ¹Ï³ÔÁÏÍø just added a name to its War Memorial.
ºÚ¹Ï³ÔÁÏÍø Alumni is always looking for ways to connect the ºÚ¹Ï³ÔÁÏÍø community. This new digital hub brings ºÚ¹Ï³ÔÁÏÍø networking to a whole new level.
In September, ºÚ¹Ï³ÔÁÏÍø 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, ºÚ¹Ï³ÔÁÏÍø 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 ºÚ¹Ï³ÔÁÏÍø senior is just months away from earning a degree - and fulfilling her late mother's wishes.
In the planning phases for ºÚ¹Ï³ÔÁÏÍø Mission Valley, open space for the community was paramount to the university — and now the multiuse river park is nearing completion.















