by Bryana Quintana | Oct 30, 2023 | Alumni, Biology, –Featured
Triple SDSU alumnus Shahan Derkarabetian (‘06, ‘09, ‘17) is the new Curator of Entomology for the San Diego Natural History Museum, where he works studying and researching arachnids Arachnophobia, the fear of spiders or other types of arachnids, is one of the...
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 | 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 | Oct 12, 2022 | Alumni
Regulatory Affairs alumna Michelle Vargas (’20) is currently the Associate Director of Quality Systems (Global Oversight) at Pacira BioSciences, Inc. What made you interested working in genomics, and what brought you to Illumina originally? What interested me...
by Sarah White | Oct 12, 2022 | Alumni, Biology
Watching a documentary about the Center for Disease Control and Prevention team investigating a hemorrhagic virus that ravaged Brazil inspired Marco Salazar (‘95) to go to college and major in microbiology at San Diego State University. Two SDSU programs helped the...
by Sarah White | Jul 18, 2022 | Alumni, Astronomy, Faculty, Students, –Headline
Alumna Trina Ray was hoping to watch President Joe Biden release the first image from JWST on her giant computer screen at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, where she works as the Europa Clipper Deputy Science Manager and REASON Investigation Scientist. Due to delays,...