Seeing it Through: A Vision for Student-Centered Campus Spaces
The culmination of alumna Cathy Busalacchi’s 30-year vision for healthy student spaces.
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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.”
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.
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.
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.
Job Maestro: Is Your Workplace Inclusive?
San Jose State Chief Diversity Officer Kathy Wong(Lau) shares tips for creating an inclusive workplace culture.
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.
Job Maestro: What is Your EQ?
One of the biggest reasons that people fail to advance as leaders is the inability to develop or improve their emotional intelligence.
Class Discussion: Mindfulness-Based Occupational Therapy
“Practitioners tend to over-give of themselves. The skills practiced in MBOT are an antidote for these imbalances.”
Editor’s Perspective: Healthy Change
Working to improve our own health and that of our communities is a change we all can make.
Editor’s Perspective: Gram’s Stories
Telling the stories of Spartans, remembering a grandmother’s sacrifice.
LGBTQ Community First
Alumna Maribel Martinez is manager of Santa Clara County’s new Office of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer (LGBTQ) Affairs.
Class Discussion: Advanced Graphic Design
Students in a sponsored class project develop improved kiosks, campus maps and signage that help everyone find their way around campus.
Editor’s Perspective: Finders, Keepers
A lighthouse, a surprise discovery and SJSU’s place in history.
Editor’s Perspective: Common Threads
When you break down something you perceive as inviolable, you begin to see what it’s made of and you can begin to imagine how it might take on a new shape and purpose.
From Readers
We received a number of letters asking about the spring/summer 2015 edition, which was our first-ever digital-only issue. Thank you for reading Washington Square.
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