News from the College of Sciences
2018 Distinguished Faculty Award: Geological Sciences Professor, Thomas Rockwell
Professor Thomas Rockwell Video from SDSU Alumni Distinguished Faculty Awards 2018: Dr. Thomas Rockwell Six San Diego State University faculty members recently received SDSU Alumni Distinguished Faculty Awards for outstanding contributions to the university and their...
Class of 2018 Outstanding Graduate
Congratulations to Kellen Gillooley for being named the 2018 Outstanding Graduate for Computer Science! Each outstanding graduate chooses his most influential professor and Kellen chose Dr. John Carroll. I asked him to tell us about his experiences here at SDSU,...
2018 Graduates
Congratulations to our 2018 Graduates! For the 2017/18 academic year the department graduated 25 BS, 10 BA, and 7 MS students with a degree in geology. In addition, 1 student left with the honor of PhD. As you can see in the above picture several students...
IBA team places 2nd in World Competition!
Michael Levenson, Abbey Warner, Maddie Burvant, Mark Korte-Nahabedian, Jack Brown, and Kip Herring Your 2018 IBA traveled to Salt Lake City, Utah to participate in the World Competition. All their hard work paid off, they took second…..in the world! ...
Advanced Field in the White Mountains
SDSU plus Dalhousie University joining field investigation of Cretaceous skarn deposit with Big Pine volcanic field in the background
Congratulations to Annie Meier
Congratulations to Annie Meier, a psychology Master’s student, on receiving a Graduate Student Preceptorship Award from the Rheumatology Research Foundation (RRF). The RRF Preceptorship Award funds Annie’s research and pays for her travel to the American College of...
Sam Shen spoke at ABET symposium
SDSU Distinguished Professor Samuel Shen was a speaker at the opening plenary session on April 12 at the 2018 Symposium of the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) held at the San Diego Grand Hyatt. ABET is a non-governmental organization formed...
Thesis Defense – Peter Suazo (BS)
A River Runs Through It: GPR Investigations of the Silver Strand Peter Suazo Advisor: Dr. Allen Gontz Friday May 4th, 2017 CSL 422 – 3:50 to 4:10 pm Abstract The Silver Strand was examined using Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) and satellite imagery, to locate...
MS Thesis Defense – Spring 2018
Theses Defenses of Spring 2018 MS Candidates Alexander Laws Using high-resolution Chirp subbottom data to map submerged paleoshorelines: Implications for uplift rates and archaeological sites, Northern Channel Islands, California, USA MS Candidate Advisor: Dr....
BS Thesis Defense – Spring 2018
Theses Defenses Spring-2018 Spring 2018 BS Candidates Michael Levenson Using Ground Penetrating Radar to Determine Stratigraphic Architecture of the Cooloola Sand Mass, Southeastern, Queensland, Australia BS Candidate Advisor: Dr. Allen Gontz Defense: May...
2018 Cyber Defense Team Competition
We are very proud to announce that the SDSU Cyber Defense Team won 2nd Place in the Western Regional Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition. They placed above well renowned schools like Stanford University, Cal Poly Pomona, UC Riverside, and Arizona State University....
SDSU Study Sheds Light on Skin Cancer Risk Behaviors
Ultraviolet light exposure through tanning is the leading environmental risk factor for developing skin cancer. “Researchers found people tanned less often after seeing a simulation of how their older selves would look if they continued tanning verses if they...
Prof. Calvin Johnson appointed associate editor at Physical Review C
The department of physics’ very own Calvin Johnson has been named an associate editor at Physical Review C, one of the leading US journals in nuclear physics. When scientific papers are submitted to science journals for publication, they undergo peer review, whereby...
The Spring 2018 Doc Morris & John D. Schopp Public Lecture
This year’s Doc Morris & John D. Schopp Public Lecture will be given by Dr. Konstantin Batygin, a Professor of Planetary Science at Caltech, and a world leader in the study of planet formation. Dr Batygin will explain his recent prediction of the presence of an...
Congratulations to SDSU Psychology Undergraduate Student Rifqi Affan
Congratulations to Rifqi Affan, an undergraduate psychology student, on receiving the National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship. Rifqi is a MARC scholar (Maximizing Access to Research Careers: NIH/NIGMS), he is the first author on a recently...
Congratulations to SDSU Psychology Student Fernanda Figueroa
Fernanda Figueroa Thursday, April 05, 2018 Raising Researchers “There’s a strong link between financial support and student research success. By Coleen L. Geraghty This story appears in the spring 2018 issue of 360: The Magazine of San Diego State...
Anton Donald Ptacek
Gone but not forgotten Lecturing to Shannon in the Blue Mountains, Australia Anton Donald Ptacek passed away at the age of 84 on March 22, 2018 in Edmonds, WA. Don was born on November 17, 1933 in Chicago, IL to Anton and Anna Ptacek. He was a...
Congratulations to Dr. Allison Vaughn
Congratulations to Dr. Allison Vaughn on receiving the WPA Early Career Research Award for her work on social relationships, stigma, and health! WPA EARLY CAREER RESEARCH AWARDALLISON VAUGHNSan Diego State University Dr. Allison Vaughn is Associate Professor...