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Nigerian artist Bruce Onobrakpeya has arrived at San Diego State University. He's led a collection of his award-winning work, curated by Kennii Ekundayo.

Tourism experts say business travel revenue is down and won’t recover until 2024. But San Diego businesses are seeing it make a comeback.

Like many prestigious awards that recognize great accomplishment in this country, the Herblock Prize for editorial cartooning, created in 2004 to commemorate the legacy of the late Washington Post cartoonist Herb Block, had never been offered to a nonwhite person—until this year.

She is thankful for the opportunities provided to her at SDSU, and grateful to spend her second and last year on campus in person. Beyond her RTM involvement, Barlow played on the Aztec Club Water Polo team and worked at the Aztec Aquaplex.

Courtney Willis, a communication major, discovered a community she didn't know existed when she created Tik Tok content urging followers to embrace their curly identity.

A proud, first-generation, Filipino-American, Lutero Aquino hopes that her graduating class finds the same kind of joy, passion, and pride that she has found while at SDSU. And for incoming students, Lutero Aquino wants them to know that “everything is going to be okay.”

Fernandez shares her advice for incoming students, “what you get out of your education is what you put in. Apply yourself to your fields of study, and take care of your body while doing so. We are all humans, our body is an entire system, shares Fernandez.

Johnathan Hallmark, a finance major, has been named outstanding graduate by SDSU’s Army ROTC Military Science Program. In addition to his involvement in the Army ROTC, Hallmark was involved in campus intramural sports and the SDSU Ski Club/Snow Team.

“To the class of 2022, my hope is that we embrace our roles as leaders of the next generation. I hope that we may use all the education and lessons learned through our time at SDSU not to just perform a job or task, but to serve and uplift others so that they too can achieve the goals and aspirations that they have,” shares Lopez.

As a proud student mentor, Park shares her advice for incoming freshmen. “Take advantage of all the resources on campus. Whether that’s being close to your friends, the events, all of the resource centers, etc. It’s amazing that students have all of that at their fingertips.”

Hospitality and Tourism Management major named outstanding graduate

Music Education major named outstanding student by the School of Music and Dance

Criminal Justice major honored as top outstanding student by School of Public Affairs and the College of Professional Studies and Fine Arts

Program opens a path to the bachelor’s degree for people experiencing incarceration in two correctional institutions in the Imperial Valley.

Shirley Weber, Charles Bell, E. Walter Miles among the seven stories featured in 16-foot-by-8-foot mural.

“Crimesploitation” is a new book co-authored by SDSU’s Paul Kaplan and Emory University’s Daniel LaChance

Contemporary musical examines the hardship of cultural discrimination and the importance of community activism. Debuts Friday, April 29.

On March 16 the School of Journalism and Media Studies celebrated the LGBTQ+ community at its third Screening Circle event with a showing of an episode from the HBO series “We’re Here.”

Themes of transformation and restoration are examined through visual art by the Prison Arts Collective and SDSU students, dance interpretations of the art by the SDSU Division of Dance, and an Arts Alive SDSU Discovery Series Panel.