Student Affairs

Ever wondered how birds’ foraging habits can help science?

Look no further than a recent story in Audubon magazine, which featured SJSU’s very own Scott Shaffer and his work with western gulls near the Farallon Islands, which can help “detect whales traveling in the Pacific Ocean to help prevent vessel strikes, a leading cause of death for the massive marine mammals on the West Coast.”

Read on for more on this innovative research: https://ow.ly/7StI50Vuel7

“Being a woman and growing up in sports has taught me confidence and strength,” explains Spartan gymnast Sophie Konieczny, ’25 Forensic Science. “All girls should have the opportunity to gain those characteristics.”

She’s joined many other female Spartans in volunteering for the Bay Area Women’s Sports Initiative (BAWSI), a mentorship program that connects female athletes with local girls to teach them leadership and athletic skills.

It’s all part of SJSU Athletics and Beyond Sparta’s larger commitment to community service: together, Spartan student-athletes completed 20,000 hours of community service during the 2023-4 school year, earning themselves the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics (NACDA) Community Service Award.

“By living and going to school in a large metropolitan area, we are constantly exposed to the less fortunate, so it’s very rewarding when the whole athletic department can come together and collect sizable donations to make a big impact in our community,” Konieczny says. “It makes me grateful and proud to be a part of a school with values that go beyond just ourselves.”

Read on to learn more about these dedicated Spartans in the latest #SJSUWSQ.

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The Lucas College and Graduate School of Business at SJSU has been recognized as the No. 1 CSU business school and among the Top 100 undergraduate business schools nationwide in last week's Poets&Quants For Undergrads rankings!

"Being named the No.1 CSU business school and ranked among the Top 100 undergraduate business schools nationwide sends a strong message to prospective students and their families: you can get a world-class business education, with deep industry ties and strong career outcomes — all at a public university price point," says Dean Rangapriya (Priya) Kannan.

This achievement was highlighted in a recent Silicon Valley Business Journal article by SJSU alum Matthew Gonzalez, '24 Journalism.

Read the full article: https://ow.ly/QFMl50VoBGU

Interested in renewable energy? So are we! SJSU is delighted to announce our participation in the California Solar Canal Initiative, a research consortium of faculty from seven top California research universities aiming to tackle the problem of renewable energy by installing solar panels over water canals to reduce evaporation and generate clean energy.

SJSU’s contributions will be led by Dustin Mulvaney, professor of environmental studies.

“Our involvement in the project shows that our students and faculty are quickly becoming leaders in promoting the sustainability of energy and water systems to integrated sectors that are crucial to addressing climate change and human prosperity in California,” says Mulvaney, who initially wrote about solar canals as a “win-win” techno-ecological synergy in a paper in Nature Sustainability” in 2019.
Read on for more about this innovative project: https://ow.ly/3ENC50VpfMQ