Student Research Day 2025

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WIRC's New Radar & NASA Partnership Featured on NBC News

NBC News Meterologist, Rob Mayeda talks to WIRC Director, Craig Clements, Ph.d. SJSU Wildfire Interdisciplinary Research Center (WIRC) is expanding it's research with a new radar and partnership with NASA to be able to collect more data in the pursuit of improving real-time mapping and imaging of wildfires.  

Students reading a poster at Student Research Day.

College of Science 21st Student Research Day

SJSU College of Science's 21st Student Research Day highlighted the incredible original research that our students engage in with faculty mentors. 

See the program here!

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2026 Grilione Seminar

Please mark your calendar to join us on Friday, May 1st at 3PM in YUH 124 for our annual Grilione seminar presented by Dr. Holly A. Ingraham. 

SJSU corpse flower bloom 2025

SJSU corpse flower second blooming

Lars Rosengreen, SJSU Greenhouse Manager, correctly estimated the second blooming of the corpse flower named "Terry Titan". 

Michelle Chen at ISB 420 renaming

Michelle & Cliff Chen first renaming of ISB

Michelle Mostajo Chen, Master in Biotechnology ‘07, and her husband support the MBT program. In honor of her and her parents, ISB 420 is renamed "Nicanor E. and Norma L. Mostajo Bio Equipment Suite."

Cutting-edge faculty-student research

Maya deVries and other aquanauts

From Lab to Livelihood

Learn how Dr. Maya deVries took a new discipline and how her abalone research is cultivating California's next generation of aquaculture workers. Please click the link above for the full story.

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Dr. Eggers Retires with a Bang

Dr. Daryl Eggers retired in 2023, but some of his most important research findings have recently been published in 3 significant manuscripts.

Miller-Conrad lab

Next Century of Spartans

Spartan inventors are hard at work in various fields, securing patents for potentially revolutionary ideas for the future of science, engineering, medicine and more.

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SJSU students contribute to new element breakthrough

Dr. Nick Esker and his students help the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory discover element 116.

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Liam Stanton Helps Put the Keys in the Fusion Ignition

Dr. Liam Stanton's simulation models were used to design a breakthrough research in fusion energy.

Transformative experiential learning

Photos from Phys 2A interactive learning

Physics 2A Proves That Learning Can Be Fun

Dr. Cassandra Paul reforms Physics 2A with active learning. Students collaborate during class which leads to students preforming better overall.

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Experiential learning in the College of Sciences

See how College of Science students experience hands-on learning in these four highlighted stories.

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An Internship to ASPIRE To

Led by Dr. Andro Rios, students in the ASPIRE program study in NASA research labs to help unlock the secrets of exobiology and astrobiology.

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Dr. Singmaster Helps Students RISE

As Director of the RISE program for 17 years, Dr. Karen Singmaster has helped over 100 underrepresented students graduate and pursue graduate school and biomedical research careers. 

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SJSU Hosts Cybersecurity Camp for Local High School Students

SJSU faculty, including our college's own, Dr. Melody Moh, helped organize this as part of their $1 million funding to improve the cybersecurity workforce.

2024 Solar Eclipse

SJSU students take in the partial solar eclipse

NBC Bay Area reports Dr. Aaron Romanowsky provided telescopes to students and passersby to get the best view of the partial solar eclipse.