by Sarah White | Mar 24, 2023 | Alumni, Psychology, –Featured
When Anne Hoiberg graduated college in the 1960s, the prevailing custom was to get married. Despite being proposed to, she decided to buck expectations, decline and head west to California with a friend. Her friend got a stable job as a nurse in San Diego, while...
by Sarah White | Mar 14, 2023 | Awards, Research, Students, –Headline
Montezuma Hall was abuzz with the nervous energy and excited punctuation of more than 120 College of Sciences students sharing their research projects with curious community members. In nearby Conrad Prebys Aztec Student Union meeting rooms, audiences intently...
by Sarah White | Feb 28, 2023 | Awards, Mathematics and Statistics, –Headline
What do the lungs, pancreas, kidneys and breasts all have in common? Branched structures that allow the flow of air, digestive fluids, blood and breastmilk. But how do these branches form and what goes wrong in this growth process that results in diseases like breast...
by Sarah White | Feb 28, 2023 | Alumni, Biology, –Featured
For her master’s thesis at San Diego State University, Amelia-Juliette Demery (evolutionary biology ‘18), traveled to museums around the country to study tanagers, the world’s largest family of songbirds. Often sporting brilliantly colored plumage, nearly 400...
by Sarah White | Jan 24, 2023 | Biology, Events
In hundreds of carefully organized filing cabinets and metal racks on the second floor of the South Life Sciences building, the extensive history and staggering variety of the natural world springs to life in San Diego State University’s Biodiversity Museum. Together,...
