You are the Change
Catherine Koanja, ’18 Nursing, had to help her mother read medication labels as a child. As a nurse she plans to advocate for health literacy.
Author: Jody Ulate
Yvonne Escalante: Forging Tradition from Maize to Mace
Alumna Yvonne Escalante’s philosophy as a craftswoman and SJSU Art and Art History lecturer helped to shape the meaning of the university’s new ceremonial mace.
Editor’s Perspective: Our Words Matter
Reading poetry can be an exercise in perspective taking, slowing down to see and listen to each word and how it interacts with its neighbors.
Editor’s Perspective: Healthy Change
Working to improve our own health and that of our communities is a change we all can make.
Witnessing Mercy: Delivering Health Care and Dignity to San Jose’s Homeless
Every Friday—rain or shine—Mercy Egbujor leads the backpack medical team on its rounds in a battered van, frequently descending into hidden camps where unsanitary conditions provide a breeding ground for diseases such as tuberculosis and hepatitis.
Spartans Champion the Paralympic Movement
Three Spartans who are part of the Paralympic movement, promoting its values of enabling and empowering athletes while challenging stereotypes and transforming attitudes about athletes with impairments.
Robot Explorers
“We are trying to make the exploration of the unknown something that everyday people can do. It doesn’t take a science grant to see something no one ever has before.”
A Healing Legacy
“Judy and I traveled a lot together. Now there’s going to be a nursing scholarship in our name that keeps the spirit of service alive.”
Nothing Is Impossible
“I came away from SJSU knowing that if you want anything bad enough you can attain it. Nothing is impossible.”
Editor’s Perspective: Gram’s Stories
Telling the stories of Spartans, remembering a grandmother’s sacrifice.
Spring/Summer 2017: From Readers
Washington Square welcomes letters to the editor. Here’s what our readers have to say.
Enduring History: 75 years after Executive Order 9066
Seventy-five years later, artifacts relating to the internment of Japanese-Americans are on display at Special Collections and Archives at SJSU’s Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Library.
SJSU: Home to the Sociology of Sport
The father of the sociology of sport on SJSU’s new Institute for the Study of Sport, Society and Social Change.
Out of the Starting Block
“The story of modern track and field cannot be written without the contributions of SJSU athletes and coaches.”
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