SJSU is the #1 CSU for Overall Economic Impact in the Bay Area with $2 Billion in Statewide Impact Per 2025 CSU Economic Impact Report

by SJSU Editor | Nov 18, 2025 | Awards and Achievements, Featured

SJSU is the #1 CSU for Overall Economic Impact in the Bay Area with $2 Billion in Statewide Impact Per 2025 CSU Economic Impact Report San José State’s presence and activity spurs billions of dollars in annual, private sector industry activity and job creation...

The Steinbeck Fellowship Celebrates 25 Years of Literary Success

by Julia Halprin Jackson | Nov 12, 2025 | Awards and Achievements, Featured

The Steinbeck Fellowship Celebrates 25 Years of Literary Success The Steinbeck Fellowship, based out of the Martha Heasley Cox Center for Steinbeck Studies, celebrates its 25th anniversary this year. Photo: Courtesy of the Steinbeck Center. Before he became a...

Atharva Berde Earns Spot on Major League Hacking’s 2025 Top 50 List

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...

Ten Spartans Selected for Apple NextGen Innovator Mentorship Program

by Julia Halprin Jackson | Nov 6, 2025 | Awards and Achievements, Featured

Ten Spartans Selected for Apple NextGen Innovator Mentorship Program On October 27, members of the inaugural Apple Next-Gen Innovators Mentorship program met with Apple leadership, SJSU President Cynthia Teniente-Matson, members of the Tower Board of Directors and...

Pulitzer Prize-Winning Editorial Cartoonist Ann Telnaes to Receive 2025 William Randolph Hearst Award at SJSU

by Julia Halprin Jackson | Nov 5, 2025 | Awards and Achievements, Featured

Pulitzer Prize-Winning Editorial Cartoonist Ann Telnaes to Receive 2025 William Randolph Hearst Award at SJSU This November, the School of Journalism and Mass Communications at San José State will honor award-winning editorial cartoonist Ann Telnaes with the 2025...

SJSU Students Accepted into Highly-Selective Y Combinator Program

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,...