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Celebrating Homecoming 2024

Jordan Evans as an undergraduate Aerospace Engineering student at San Diego State University in 1989.

Aztec alumnus leads NASA’s historic Europa Clipper mission

Jordan Evans will be honorary homecoming chair less than two weeks after the launch of the Jupiter probe.

SDSU football player evades a tackle during a game at Snapdragon Stadium

San Diego State hosts Washington State for homecoming game on Saturday night

The Aztecs (3-3) host Washington State (6-1) for Homecoming Weekend on Saturday night.

Fa'aea Tumanuvao in a black suit

Fa'aea Tumanuvao honors her Samoan heritage on the big stage

From American Samoa to San Diego State, Tumanuvao embraces her role as cultural ambassador, representing her family, heritage, and community as a member of the Homecoming Royal Court

SDSU Impact

Cristina Alfaro, SDSU Associate Vice President of International Affairs, welcomes 800 attendees to campus for Re:Border 2024. (Photo: Scott Hargrove)

The top five takeaways from SDSU’s Re:Border Conference 2024

This year’s conference was the largest yet, bringing together a diverse binational group of students, faculty and policy leaders to build a better border region

Fourth-year computer science student Pascal Reich and master’s student Hyunhee Kwak work at a computer developing software and advanced algorithms

New cybersecurity center boosts SDSU’s cyber research and teaching capabilities

Center provides a unique opportunity to prepare students for critical roles in a growing field

(L to R) Kimberly Giardina and Sally Mathiesen (professor emeritus 2019), SDSU 2004 commencement

Homecoming 2024: How Kimberly Giardina’s SDSU roots propelled her to a top San Diego County health role

From a master’s in social work to macro-level leadership, Giardina leads a student success and county health partnership to increase workforce

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Solutions

A young person, seen in profile with black hair obscuring most of their face, is working on a laptop keyboard placed on top of a large instrument, about four feet high. Behind them we see an estuary, forking off into two branches, surrounbded by flat wetlands.

Sensors prove feasibility of real-time water quality reporting

The instruments were deployed in the Tijuana River Estuary, polluted by raw sewage flows from Mexico.

Photo shows patient dressed in a gown laying in their bed in a hospital room looking out the window.

Cancer and Cannabis Use: Why a patient’s perception matters

A study led by SDSU researcher Corinne McDaniels-Davidson highlights the need for better communication surrounding cannabis use as an option to treat side-effects of cancer treatment.

Maryam Fani and Matthew Verbyla dressed in white lab coats work inside a lab at SDSU analyzing soil samples for pollution indicators. (Rachel Crawford/SDSU)

SDSU research funding total nears $230M

SDSU’s research enterprise has grown by over 60% in 3 years

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Campus News

SDSU athletics unveils plans to build golf performance center

Performance center will be housed at The Farms Golf Club and benefit both SDSU men’s and women’s golf

Strategic Plan Phase II under development

Faculty, staff and students are invited to share their input to inform the next five years of strategic plan activities after the 2020-2025 phase comes to a close next year.

2025 Presidential Research Fellows awarded $25K each to further their projects

Tenured researchers recognized for their work on cancer, centering Indigenous history, and children’s mental health and math learning

SDSU named among The Princeton Review’s Top 50 Green Colleges

San Diego State University is No. 42 on The Princeton Review's Top 50 list

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Aztec Voices

Marissa Vasquez is photographed under trees in a park-like setting at SDSU.
I had this feeling of responsibility. This organization has given a lot to me professionally and personally — the networks, the friendships that I've developed over the years. It contributed so much to my own growth as a scholar and educator. In that moment, I decided this was something that I wanted to do.

— SDSU associate professor Marissa Vasquez, from New AAHHE chair-elect feels ‘sense of urgency’