by Rhoda Shapiro | Dec 15, 2025 | Fall 25 Commencement, Featured, Leadership
Commencement Profile: Bryan McCray on Building Community and Creating Local Change Photo courtesy of Bryan McCray. Bryan McCray, ’25 Political Science, became interested in politics at the age of four. Barack Obama had just been elected as the first Black president...
by Rhoda Shapiro | Dec 8, 2025 | Campus Life, Featured
Deep Dive in Five: The New, Upgraded Sammy App is Here Students participating in Commuter Week Appreciation activities in March 2025. The new and improved Sammy App has just launched at San José State. As a go-to hub for events, community and connection, the app is...
by Rhoda Shapiro | Dec 5, 2025 | Awards and Achievements, Featured, Leadership
SJSU’s Rome Drori and Team Win First Place at Sushi Hackathon Rome Drori, ’26 Computer Science, at the second annual Sushi Hackathon. On October 3, the second annual Sushi Hackathon took place at Stanford University. Rome Drori, ’26 Computer Science, was...
by Rhoda Shapiro | Nov 7, 2025 | Awards and Achievements, Featured, Research and Innovation
Atharva Berde Earns Spot on Major League Hacking’s 2025 Top 50 List Atharva Berde (right) with a friend at HackDavis 2025. Photo courtesy of Atharva Berde. Atharva Berde, ’26 Applied Mathematics, was recently named one of Major League Hacking’s (MLH) Top 50 Hackers...
by Rhoda Shapiro | Nov 4, 2025 | Awards and Achievements, Featured, Leadership
SJSU Students Accepted into Highly-Selective Y Combinator Program Mizan Rupan-Tompkins (left) and Hunter Nguyen (right) at the Y Combinator office in San Francisco. Mizan Rupan-Tompkins, ’28 Computer Science and Linguistics, and Hunter Nguyen, ’28 Computer Science,...