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MAKE Farm’s CSA program trains participants in agriculture, job skills, and English for career growth.

SDSU Mission Valley partners with MAKE Projects to launch MAKE Farm, allowing for community supported agriculture

An urban farm at SDSU Mission Valley, next to the remodeled trolley plaza, cultivates a partnership between SDSU and MAKE Projects, which offers job readiness training for refugee and immigrant women.

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.

Adjunct Faculty Gabriela Fernandez, director of the SDSU Metabolism of Cities Living Lab, supervises big data research that localizes the 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals

SDSU lab dives into big data to localize UN Sustainable Development Goals

At Metabolism of Cities Living Lab, researchers build awareness of climate change and give a voice to vulnerable populations along the U.S.-Mexico border and globally.

SDSU Impact

James Tucker, mayor for the city of Imperial (left), signs the agreement with Guillermina Gina Nuñez-Mchiri, SDSU Imperial Valley dean on Feb. 19. (SDSU Imperial Valley)

SDSU Imperial Valley partners with Imperial Public Library to expand admission resources

The agreement, signed between the city of Imperial and SDSU Imperial Valley, will allow both parties to collaborate in providing admission support and guidance to prospective students.

Neftalie Williams is photographed with his skateboard and sitting on steps at SDSU's campus

New SDSU, The Skatepark Project Partnership to drive skateboarding and action sports research

SDSU’s Center for Skateboarding, Action Sports, and Social Change and The Skatepark Project are now partners under a new agreement designed to promote the mental, physical and social benefits of skateboarding culture.

Acacia Thede photographed standing in front of a wall of lockers inside a school hallway.

The value of students seeing themselves in history

SDSU lecturer and local history teacher Acacia Thede is out to ensure students can explore the past through the perspectives of Black, Indigenous and people of color.

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Solutions

Top (L to R): Purnell Strom, Sagel Provancher, Madeline Kerins, Tait Arnold, Andrew Murphy. Bottom (L to R): Mikhail Alexseev, Yang Liang, Naseh Nasrollahi Shahri, Consuelo Salas, Gregory A. Daddis.

Faculty and undergraduates team up to research drones, comics, AI and more

Members of CAL MUSE cohorts share details of their research projects

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Los Angeles Wildfires: How to help impacted SDSU students

SDSU has created a fund to support students in crisis. Here’s how to donate.

Graduates in their caps and gowns smile toward the camera.

SDSU 2024 Year In Review

SDSU celebrates a transformative year marked by record funding, academic milestones, global engagement, and athletic triumphs

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SDSU Alumni

In Memoriam: Leon Williams

The SDSU trolley station is dedicated to the former councilman and transit board member, who attended the college on the G.I. Bill.

Graduate’s ‘unwavering determination’ zeroes in on biotech research

SDSU’s R1 classification rests on the work of such students as Daniel Valencia and his mentors, looking into brain activity and computer interfaces.

Taking Aztec Golf to the next level

Inspired to advance Aztec Golf, SDSU alumni Jerry (‘58) and Carolyn Davee (‘59) have given a significant gift to support two on-campus golf simulators.

How SDSU alumnus turned hobby into a thriving career

From high school videos to a thriving business, Jeff Lewis built a creative career

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Aztec Voices

Two SDSU researches are inside a lab observing a petri dish.
This recognition enhances our ability to attract excellent faculty, supercharges our students’ career readiness, and grows the value and prestige of an SDSU degree everywhere, benefiting our 500,000 living Aztec alumni.

— SDSU President Adela de la Torre, from SDSU earns R1 classification, joins top 5% of research universities in the U.S.