SJSU’s 2012 Olympian Marti Malloy is welcomed home by her coach, the legendary Yosh Uchida (Christina Olivas photo).
We’ve had an absolutely amazing year, Spartans!
When the time came for us to select the Best of 2012, it was super tough to choose just 10!
We would like to send a huge thanks to everyone who visited all of our online channels, whether it was our news, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, LinkedIn or Pinterest pages.
We counted up all your clicks, likes, pins and tweets and SJSU’s 2012 Olympian Marti Malloy came out on top. Read her story and join us on Pinterest to add a comment.
Ripped From the Headlines
Many more of our top stories were ripped right out of the headlines, with students loving the passage of Prop. 30 and the tuition rollback that came along with it.
Our football team making it to the Military Bowl also touched off an avalanche of national media coverage.
Whether led by an enterprising professor or intrepid students, campus research boomed with a $73.3 million NASA grant and a mind-boggling motorcycle with spherical wheels.
We also scored in the U.S. News & World Report College Rankings, coming in ninth overall among the West’s top public universities.
Enriching the Educational Experience
Student life thrived, too. In May, two undergrads and two graduate students from the class of 2012 earned accolades for their outstanding work.
This summer, we welcomed incoming frosh with a super fun orientation program followed this fall by our largest career fair in five years.
We even set the stage for 2013, launching an initiative to roll out a whole bunch of online tools enriching the educational experience here at SJSU.
Stay tuned because things can only get better next year!