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San Diego State University Art and Design Professor Yin Yu, in collaboration with Dr. Surabhi Bhutani, is designing wearable technology for olfactory, smell training to combat loss of smell after a COVID-19 infection. In a crossover between art and science, the wearable tech will help individuals suffering from loss of smell through olfactory training.

Janis McKay has been appointed dean of the College of Professional Studies and Fine Arts, effective July 3.

From the time we are newborns and into our senior years, touch plays a primary role in our physical and mental well-being. Its absence can result in what psychologists call “skin hunger,” a term that inspired the title of a production choreographed by San Diego State University dance professor Joseph Alter.

JMS student Raymond Gorospe, placed 14th in the country in the Hearst Personality/Profile Competition with his photojournalism piece on student/athlete Tamara Arnold.

Now celebrating its 25th year, San Diego State University’s annual NWEAMO new music festival took a surprising turn. Thursday’s concert in the Music Department’s Rhapsody Hall featured a quartet of guest musicians from Poland performing exclusively acoustic music.

School of Music and Dance Associate Professor Chuyun Oh plans to expand knowledge of the unique art form.

Megan Welsh, associate professor at the School of Public Affairs, appeared recently on KPBS's Midday Edition as part of a panel discussing racial and social disparities in San Diego policing.

6th annual Allen H. Center Distinguished Lecture in Public Relations features a diverse panel of media industry pros discussing how they made their names and landed leadership positions.

Former Aztec Shops employee and breast cancer survivor Imelda Hernandez-Villa is working alongside her daughter Sydney Villa as they aim to earn their bachelor's degrees.

I was a teenager growing up in Southern California when I first came upon Lalo Alcaraz’s comic strip La Cucaracha in the Los Angeles Times.

President Joe Biden announced key appointments to boards and commissions in January 2023, including naming San Diego State University School of Journalism and Media Studies Alumna Jill Nash to the Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board (FFSB).

Bruce Appleyard is now SDSU's associate director of the newly formed Center for Pedestrian and Bicyclist Safety, a place for research that will make streets safer, more liveable, and more equitable.

“Skin Hunger”, choreographed by Music and Dance Professor Joseph Alter, comes to San Diego State University. The dance performance will visit San Diego as part of the 2023 tour, including Poland, New York and Tijuana.

Two San Diego State University School of Theatre, Television and Film graduates will talk about writing 'All Quiet On The Western Front.'

Associate Professor in the School of Communication Katrina Pariera takes the reins of the innovative research lab.

Brigadier General Houston Cantwell leads all Air Force ROTC host detachments at 145 colleges and universities, with cadets at more than 1,050 respective cross-town schools.

The SDSU School of Theatre, Television, and Film will host Lesley Paterson and Simon Marshall, talking about screenwriting for the film “All Quiet on the Western Front.”

The SDSU School of Art and Design presents the work of 29 artists examining the notion of boundaries and borders.

Formerly known as the ‘Little Theatre,’ SDSU classroom will be renamed and dedicated in honor of Alumnus Randy Bernstein.