UC Davis • 7th August 2024

Unraveling the Social Impacts of Artificial Intelligence

In recent years, advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) have shown enormous potential to transform technologies, practices and interactions on a global scale. The adoption of AI for content creation, data analysis, decision-making and other labor-intensive jobs is growing at a rapid rate, prompting many to question its social impacts.

UC Davis • 11th April 2024

Capturing Carbon From Power Plants and the Atmosphere

The realities of climate change are around us — replete with the sight of melting glaciers and raging wildfires. Scientists have long documented that greenhouse gas emissions are the most significant drivers of global warming and climate change.

Office of Research • 9th March 2023

UC Davis Led Startup Developing Novel Technology Aimed at Increasing the Consumption and Resulting Health Benefits of Dietary Fiber

UC Davis scientists have come up with a new technology that they hope will make dietary fiber soluble, digestible and palatable, which could potentially increase its consumption through a variety of food and drinks.

Office of Research • 25th April 2022

UC Davis Researchers Receive $1.2 million NIH Grant to Study Synthetic Data Use in Healthcare

Three researchers from UC Davis have been awarded a total $1.2 million grant over four years from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to generate high-quality synthetic data using artificial

Office of Research • 15th March 2022

New Research Shows Predictors for Diabetes are Different for Black and White Women

Over 34 million adults in the United States, roughly 1 in 10, have diabetes. That rate is even higher within the Black community, particularly in Black women. This is often attributed to an increased prevalence of obesity in Black women — since being obese is the strongest p

Office of Research • 9th November 2021

The Language of the Opioid Crisis and its Impact on Policies and Patients

Language is an intricate tool of expression, and Peter Torres has unraveled some of its complexities by analyzing doctor-patient conversations about opioid use and addiction.

UC Davis • 16th December 2022

To the Moon and Back: UC Davis Plays Role in Historic Artemis I Mission

On Dec. 11, Artemis I’s Orion capsule made a successful splashdown in the Pacific Ocean after nearly 26 days in space and orbiting the moon. Orion is NASA’s new exploration spacecraft designed to carry humans into deep space. The McClellan Nuclear Research Center (MNRC) at the University of California, Davis played an important role in the success of the historic moon mission.

UC Davis • 25th May 2022

Gun Violence: UC Davis Researches Causes, Trends, Solutions

The recent string of mass shootings has once again captured the attention of the American public. The tragic shootings in an elementary school in Texas, a grocery store in New York, a church in California and locally in the streets of downtown Sacramento have many people wondering what can be done to prevent such tragedies.

Washington Square: The Stories of San Jose State • 24th November 2020

Scott Fosdick: Thank You, Professor

Scott Fosdick uses an old hippie phrase, “It’s been a trip,” to sum up his last 15 years as a professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communications. Fosdick arrived at San José State way back in 2005, driving all the way from Missouri. This winter, he retires.

Washington Square: The Stories of San Jose State • 4th August 2020

Elisha Miranda: Flipping the Script

Elisha Miranda’s first exercise in storytelling happened at Columbia Film School when she had to tell a story about pets. Miranda had none during her childhood, but she had a story about a girl who was obsessed with cockroaches.

Washington Square: The Stories of San Jose State • 8th September 2020

Renae Moneymaker: Packing a Punch in Hollywood

Spartan gymnast Renae Moneymaker was weighing in fun summer job options sitting at head coach Wayne Wright’s office when Wright asked her, “Why don’t you go be an extra on that gymnastics TV show?” She immediately jumped at the idea, flew down to Los Angeles, and landed on the set of the 2009 American teen drama series Make it Or Break It.

Washington Square: The Stories of San Jose State • 28th July 2020

Hip-Hop Artist Chris Manak (aka Peanut Butter Wolf)

At 19, disc jockey Chris Manak took a fancy for a character named Peanut Butter Wolf, an imaginary illustration of a wolf-like boogeyman avatar. “It was so weird and funny, we even started a band where every song would mention it.”

SJSU Newsroom • 22nd May 2020

2020 Graduates Reflect on their Time at SJSU

As the unique and challenging spring 2020 semester comes to a close, some of the resilient members of SJSU’s graduating class reflect on their time at SJSU, achievements and plans for the future.

SJSU Newsroom • 12th November 2019

Nobel Laureate Salutes San Jose State Alumnus Sidney Siegel

When San Jose State University held a grand inauguration event in October celebrating the launch of the newly renovated Spartan Experimental Economics Lab (SEEL), Vernon Smith, the 2002 Nobel Laureate in Economics, one of the key dignitaries present on the occasion, talked about a certain Sidney Siegel, who was a pioneer in the early days of experimental economic research.

SJSU Newsroom • 7th January 2020

African-American Studies Department Receives Commendation for its 50th Anniversary

The SJSU Department of African-American Studies received a commendation for its 50th anniversary from San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo at the November 19 city council meeting held in the San Jose City Hall. Speaking at the event, council member and SJSU alumnus Raul Peralez, said how the department is serving African-American populations and the community by engaging in intellectual traditions that take into account historical, cultural, philosophical, political, social and theoretical perspectives.

SJSU Newsroom • 28th January 2020

Mumford and Sons Funds SJSU Service Fellowship

San Jose State University’s Martha Heasley Cox Center for Steinbeck Studies honored the British folk-rock band Mumford and Sons with the annual John Steinbeck Award on September 18, 2019 at a sold-out event in Stanford University’s Bing Concert Hall. Proceeds of the event funded a new Steinbeck Service Fellowship that encourages engaged collaboration between students at SJSU and Stanford.

The Princeton Packet • 13th March 2012

The curious case of running

Long starched roads. Acrobatic signals. Zipping cars. Colored tracks. Fancy jackets. Dipping temperature. Frosted panes. Winds of change. Sunny glow. Smell of coffee. Buzzing alarm. And the detangling of the arms! That’s the kind of image my husband wakes up to every morning; flush with an indefatigable zest to run along parched winter streets.

India Currents • 12th June 2016

Meandering Through Mexico

Mexico. A country I have always been fascinated with. My earliest memory of anything remotely “Mexico” can be traced back to the days I was growing up in India—the FIFA World Cup that used to get us all heated up once every four years. I still remember the way all four of us (my parents and sister, and I) rooted passionately for our soccer playing Mexican boys. It often didn’t matter when the matches rolled well past midnight.

The Princeton Packet • 27th April 2012

Let there be light on dark streets

(Image courtesy: Mark Bridger/Solent News) It so happens that every Wednesday evening our gastric systems send us reminders. If this leaves you wondering about our organic functions, let me state right in the beginning that we are not battling any biological disorders, rather a very common syndrome; epicurean cravings. Figuratively speaking, it is during these times that my husband’s well-earned Dr. prefix comes to our rescue!

The Statesman • 8th July 2005

With a touch of France

The French Association in collaboration with Nandan and Kolkata Film Festival hosted a range of films from all over the world, flaunting the Fonds Sud brand in the city. Fonds Sud is not just a label, it is a tool, which, since 1984, has fostered cinematic production in Africa, Asia, and Latin America.