by Lauren Hernandez | Apr 29, 2016 | Academics
In 1968, a group of Chicano students participating in the San Jose State commencement ceremony at Spartan Stadium peacefully walked out of the president’s speech in protest of lackluster resources and in support for students of color. They created their own “Chicano...
by Lauren Hernandez | Apr 29, 2016 | Academics
When Kenney Chiu, ’15 Business Finance, joined 4,127 Dean’s and President’s Scholars as part of the Honors Convocation in the Event Center on April 15, someone special shared a seat with him — his baby boy Abraham Charles. “I snuck him in to sit on my lap,” Chiu said...
by Lauren Hernandez | Apr 11, 2016 | Academics
When Hanni Ali, ’17 Chemical Engineering, took the Student Union Ballroom stage, she prepared to share an all-too familiar experience with over 300 female engineering students and professionals as part of the second annual Silicon Valley Women in Engineering...
by Lauren Hernandez | Apr 8, 2016 | Academics
The pounding of conga drums married with the seductive blare of the trumpet filled the Student Union Ballroom as part of the second annual Essence of Blackness event. The African AmericanStudent Success Task Force hosted the event along with its Harambee Committee to...
by Lauren Hernandez | Apr 4, 2016 | Academics
The San Jose State Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) ushered in its Seventh Annual Bay Area Biomedical Device Conference March 30 with discussion topics ranging from unmet medical device needs in developing countries to nanotechnology and entrepreneurial guidance....
