• Class of 2015 Outstanding Graduate

    Class of 2015 Outstanding Graduate

    Congratulations to Dan Carrigan for being named the 2015 Outstanding Graduate for Computer Science! He was also honored with being named the 2015 Outstanding Graduate for the College of Sciences. Dan graduated high school in 2002 in Colorado with an interest in game programming.  He completed some college in Colorado, and then in Arizona, before…

  • Sailing the Viromic Seas

    Click Here to View Video Story By Michael Price This story will appear in the spring 2015 issue of 360:The Magazine of San Diego State University. There’s a transformation happening in microbiology. The price of DNA sequencing has dropped precipitously in recent years, with individual genome sequencing falling below $1,000. Lab after lab has sequenced…

  • Alumni Profile: Henry Chan

    Alumni Profile: Henry Chan

    Degree & Year Graduated B.S., Computer Science 2004 How did you become interested in your field? Loved it after taking my 1st programming class, and honestly I was sold after sitting in super nice cars driven by my friend’s Bay Area engineer friend (before the dot com burst). What do you do for a living…

  • Dr. Rob Edwards: Outstanding International Scholar

    Dr. Rob Edwards: Outstanding International Scholar

    Dr. Rob Edwards is the recipient of the 2014-15 Scholars Without Borders Outstanding International Scholar. Scholars Without Borders is an interdisciplinary honor society made up of approximately 350 SDSU faculty, staff and students. The organization is dedicated to international exchange and service and recognizing scholarly achievement in a global context. The Outstanding International Scholar award…

  • Dr. Valafar recieves one of the top 5 largest grants at SDSU last academic year

    Dr. Valafar recieves one of the top 5 largest grants at SDSU last academic year

    SDSU’s Top 5 Grants from the Past Year Researchers succeeded in winning highly competitive federal funding in fiscal year 2013-14. By Michael Price Fiscal year 2013-2014 was a great year for grant awards received by San Diego State University researchers. More than 250 different organizations sponsored research at SDSU, funding 243 professors, research associates, and…