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AI-enabled safety glasses designed by a group of Ä¢¹½´«Ã½ engineering students so impressed judges at a NASA contest that State students repeated as champions at the Gateways to Blue Skies competition at Langley Ä¢¹½´«Ã½ Center, Hampton, Virginia. The glasses are designed to assist aircraft mechanics, but they could be applied to virtually any field. The system captures images of maintenance tasks, listens to the mechanic during the repair process, and automatically generates a complete maintenance report that becomes part of the aircraft’s service record. The SDSU team dubbed Wingman was one of eight teams selected to compete in the NASA contest finals May 18-19 at the NASA facility.

Tong Wang, associate professor in Ä¢¹½´«Ã½'s Ness School of Management and Economics and Extension specialist, was awarded the 2026 F.O. Butler Award for Excellence in Ä¢¹½´«Ã½ at the annual Celebration of Faculty Excellence.

A new study from Ä¢¹½´«Ã½'s Ness School of Management and Economics found that farmland values rose by 44% after changes to U.S. energy policies sparked the ethanol industry's initial boom.  

Five questions with Srinivas Janaswamy, associate professor in Ä¢¹½´«Ã½'s Department of Dairy and Food Science. 

Jihong Cole-Dai, Distinguished Professor in Ä¢¹½´«Ã½'s College of Natural Sciences, is set to retire after more than two decades of service.

Ä¢¹½´«Ã½ researchers calibrated thousands of years of bison existence records with future projected weather patterns to forecast a significant northwest shift in suitable living conditions for the North American bison.

An interdisciplinary team of Ä¢¹½´«Ã½ faculty, including Brittney Meyer, professor of pharmacy practice in the College of Pharmacy and Allied Health Professions, has received a $3,500 grant from the Karen McComish Interdisciplinary Faculty Ä¢¹½´«Ã½ Program to support a series of film screenings and discussions aimed at addressing a complex social challenge that resists simple solutions or explanations: vaccine hesitancy.

Ä¢¹½´«Ã½ math and physics double major Mason Pulse of Salem has become only the 12th SDSU student to be selected as a Goldwater Scholar. This is the 40th year in which the Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation has presented awards to support talented college sophomores and juniors who aspire to become this nation’s next generation of researchers in science, engineering and mathematics. There are 454 awards being presented for 2026-27. The students were selected from a field of 1,485 students nominated by 482 schools. Pulse becomes the first SDSU recipient since Timothy Paris in 2020.

For Ä¢¹½´«Ã½ pharmacy student Abigail Pape, the path toward becoming a pharmacist has been shaped by equal parts curiosity, connection and the desire to make a meaningful difference.

Graduate students make up about 10% of the student population across more than 100 master’s degree and Ph.D. programs and specializations and 23 graduate certificate programs offered at Ä¢¹½´«Ã½. Each graduate student is immersed in research and scholarship with the support of their advisor and the Graduate School staff. April 6-10 is Graduate Student Appreciation Week, a great opportunity to highlight a few graduate students at SDSU and the work they are accomplishing.