“Hemp Plastic Water Bottles” Steals the Show at Innovation Challenge
After setting out to create a cross-disciplinary event, Silicon Valley Innovation Challenge successfully attracted entries from all seven colleges.
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Critics Applaud Professor’s Indie Film
After deciding she needed to practice when she preached, theater Professor Amy Glazer developed a niche turning plays into feature-length films, including “Seducing Charlie Barker” now playing at Camera Cinema 3.
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MESA Schools Receives $30,000 Grant from Boston Scientific Foundation
San José State’s MESA Schools Program—its name is an acronym for Mathematics, Engineering, Science Achievement—has worked since 1979 with secondary school teachers in the Santa Clara Valley to encourage educationally disadvantaged students to pursue college degrees in science, technology engineering and math related majors.
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Swim Team Nationally Ranked
“We’re very pleased with our early-season progress,” said Head Coach Sage Hopkins. “I think it’s a great indication of the progress the team has been making and the sacrifices they have made.”
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Spartans Score at CSU Media Arts Festival
Every SJSU entry received an award including top honors to a screenplay from a panel of judges comprised of faculty members and industry professionals.
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San Jose Sports Hall of Fame Inducts Ueberroth, Lambert
Peter Ueberroth (left) served as an Olympic leader and baseball commissioner. Art Lambert was an SJSU and Stanford water polo player and coach.
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Recent Grad Wins VTA Mobile App Contest
“Mobile apps that incorporate VTA schedules, service maps, route and fare information, as well as GPS, are especially helpful,” said Greta Helm, VTA’s chief of external affairs.
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CommUniverCity Receives National Award for Innovative Partnership That Reduced Crime
The community-university-city collaboration will receive $20,000 to advance its public safety partnership with the San José Police Department.
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Alumnus Rings NASDAQ Opening Bell
When Overland Storage Inc. visited the NASDAQ MarketSite in New York City’s Times Square Oct. 14, the company’s CEO, an SJSU alumnus, rang the opening bell.
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Best of SJSU: Biology’s Victoria Johnson
We asked SJSU Facebook’s 12,000 fans, “What is the best class you’ve taken at SJSU?” Congratulations to Biology’s Victoria Johnson, whose human sexuality class “is a must!”
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