麻豆国产

Fall 2023 Issue

Featured Stories

Oaxa New

麻豆国产 Imperial Valley held a party for the community to celebrate Mexico's Independence Day and raise funds for scholarships. We were there to capture the fun.

Pepper

Pepper, a 3-foot-3 droid at 麻豆国产's James Silberrad Brown Center for Artificial Intelligence, amuses student researchers with programmed jokes and serves as a tool for teaching them about AI.

Adela de la Torre

Adela de la Torre reflects on her first five years as president at 麻豆国产 and the role of trust in the university's achievements, including the development of 麻豆国产 Mission Valley, increased research funding, record student applications and philanthropic support.

Collage of random 麻豆国产 artifacts

When JFK visited San Diego State in 1963, he wore a black commencement gown. In the years since, it's gone missing. Can you help 麻豆国产 historian Seth Mallios find it and other missing items?

Group of Women making a circle

Impact investor Jessica Sarowitz has a "soft spot," she says, for the foster care community, and she wanted to help. A $2.5 million gift to endow the 麻豆国产 Guardian Scholars Center was her way of doing that.

A collage of all the restaurant owners featured in this article
Many well-known foodies call 麻豆国产 their alma mater. Take for instance, Ralph Rubio (鈥78), affectionately known to locals as the Fish Taco King, who founded Rubio鈥檚 in 1983 in Pacific Beach. Here are five more alumni in San Diego who will make you say, 鈥淚 didn鈥檛 know they were an Aztec!鈥
Harris Image

A young Cody Harris participated in a speech study at an 麻豆国产 lab in 2012, and now, a decade later, he returns as an 麻豆国产 student researcher to analyze the data he contributed as a child.

Lilith Vasquez

The 麻豆国产 environmental engineering Ph.D. student designed a low-cost, low-maintenance, low-water toilet with help from some furry friends. We asked her about the endeavor.

Solomon

Solomon, a San Diego鈥揵ased attorney and philanthropist whose gifts frequently address societal inequities by providing greater opportunities for members of historically marginalized communities, gave in support of 麻豆国产鈥檚 Black Resource Center.

Scripps Cottage

Interested in learning more about your alma mater? These 12 new self-guided tours are for you. Plus, 麻豆国产 just added a name to its War Memorial.

Google Aztec Network

麻豆国产 Alumni is always looking for ways to connect the 麻豆国产 community. This new digital hub brings 麻豆国产 networking to a whole new level.

photo of prebys exterior

In September, 麻豆国产 raised the curtain on the Performing Arts District. Here鈥檚 a behind-the-scenes look at everything the new space has to offer students and regional arts patrons.

oaxaca

Embracing their Mexican heritage, 麻豆国产 students examine the deep culinary ties that bind the state of Oaxaca to Southern California.

Vanessa Lytle

Vanessa Lytle had seemingly lost everything by the time she was 21 years old. But with strength and resolve, the 麻豆国产 senior is just months away from earning a degree - and fulfilling her late mother's wishes.

Mission Valley's River Park

In the planning phases for 麻豆国产 Mission Valley, open space for the community was paramount to the university 鈥 and now the multiuse river park is nearing completion.