• SDSU Alumnus Launches Innovative Course to Guide STEM Students Beyond Traditional Careers

    SDSU Alumnus Launches Innovative Course to Guide STEM Students Beyond Traditional Careers

    A lawyer, businessman, venture capitalist, psychology grad, and now teacher, Court Turner shows students the wide world of opportunity STEM degrees offer. By Bryana Quintana San Diego State University alumnus Court Turner (‘96) returned to campus this fall, applying his nearly 30 years of biotech experience to teach an innovative […]

  • SDSU Alumnus Dedicated to Promoting Fellow Athletes with Disabilities and Improving Healthcare

    SDSU Alumnus Dedicated to Promoting Fellow Athletes with Disabilities and Improving Healthcare

    Peter Phillips uses microbiology and business degrees, plus a passion for athletics and sailing, to give back to the community

  • The Time Machine

    The Time Machine

    By Bryana QuintanaThis story was originally published in the FALL 2024 edition of SDSU Magazine SDSU biologists have collected specimens from every corner of the Earth for decades: It’s all in the Biodiversity Museum. FOLLOWING A PATH outlined by railroad tracks, Marshal Hedin found himself deep inside a dark, cramped tunnel […]

  • Don’t Lose Your Head Over It!

    Don’t Lose Your Head Over It!

    “We could see the whole bodies of the nematodes, but the head was just like detached from the body,” said chemistry major Yesenia Rodriguez Reyes, a workshop participant. She says no one in the Luallen lab had ever seen this before. 

  • Preparing the Next Generation of Sustainable Scientists

    Preparing the Next Generation of Sustainable Scientists

    SDSU scientists received $5 million from the National Institute of Food and Agriculture for growing and increasing diversity among researchers who are contributing to sustainable food systems along the U.S.-Mexico border region.