From Zero to Safety
Autonomous vehicles are the future. Are they safe? Assistant Professor of Aviation Francesca Favaro and her research team are assessing the risks and rewards of the next generation of transportation.
Author: Jody Ulate
Spartan Heritage: Service-Centered for 20 Years—and Counting
Through the Center for Community Learning and Leadership, an estimated 80,000 SJSU students have contributed more than 1,400,000 hours to the community through service-learning.
Seeing it Through: A Vision for Student-Centered Campus Spaces
The culmination of alumna Cathy Busalacchi’s 30-year vision for healthy student spaces.
Job Maestro: How to Start a Research Career
Director of SJSU’s Aspire and McNair Scholars Programs Maria Elena Cruz shares her experience pursuing a PhD and offers guidance on how to start a research career.
Girls Can’t Be Engineers
Professor Stacy Gleixner thinks it’s society’s responsibility to fix this pipeline issue: “And that comes from both directions: girls dreaming that they can do this and parents and teachers supporting them. And CEOs making a climate that promotes diverse attitudes and visions.”
Jonathan Roth: 2019 Distinguished Service Award
When History Professor Jonathan Roth sees something he doesn’t agree with, he tries to change it.
Big Network, Small World
Learning an entrepreneurial mindset prepares students for work and life in Silicon Valley.
Michael Sera: Be the Bridge
Michael Sera, ’86 Electrical Engineering, works to bridge cultures at the Japanese American Museum of San Jose.
Job Maestro: How to Manage Up
Engineer and author Tony Wong, ’86 MBA, shares tips for standing out at work.
Editor’s Perspective: Takeoff
San Jose State’s new “power suite” at the Norman Y. Mineta San Jose International Airport showcases the stories of Spartans.
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.
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.
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.”
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.
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