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An innovative solution could be worth $15,000. </p></div></div><a class="cta cta--button more-from" href="/news/list?tag=SDSU Impact">More SDSU Impact</a></div></section><div style="background-color: #f2f2f2; padding-top: 50px; padding-bottom: 30px;"> <section class="news-homepage news-homepage-category-three"><div class="container"><div class="category-header"><h2>Solutions</h2></div><div class="articles"><div class="article"><a href="https://www.sdsu.edu/news/2025/01/faculty-and-undergraduates-team-up-to-research-drones-comics-ai-and-more"><img src="/news/2025/01/images/faculty-and-undergraduates-team-up-to-research-drones-comics-ai-and-more-main.jpg" alt="Top (L to R): Purnell Strom, Sagel Provancher, Madeline Kerins, Tait Arnold, Andrew Murphy. Bottom (L to R): Mikhail Alexseev, Yang Liang, Naseh Nasrollahi Shahri, Consuelo Salas, Gregory A. Daddis." /><h3>Faculty and undergraduates team up to research drones, comics, AI and more</h3></a><p>Members of CAL MUSE cohorts share details of their research projects</p></div><div class="article"><a href="https://www.sdsu.edu/news/2025/01/sdsu-mission-valley-partners-with-make-projects-to-launch-make-farm"><img src="/news/2025/01/images/sdsu-mission-valley-partners-with-make-projects-to-launch-make-farm-main.png" alt="MAKE Farm’s CSA program trains participants in agriculture, job skills, and English for career growth." /><h3>SDSU Mission Valley partners with MAKE Projects to launch MAKE Farm, allowing for community supported agriculture</h3></a><p>An urban farm at SDSU Mission Valley, next to the remodeled trolley plaza, cultivates a partnership between SDSU and MAKE Projects, which offers job readiness training for refugee and immigrant women.</p></div><div class="article"><a href="https://www.sdsu.edu/news/2025/01/sdsu-lab-dives-into-big-data-to-localize-un-sustainable-development-goals"><img src="/news/2025/01/images/sdsu-lab-dives-into-big-data-to-localize-un-sustainable-development-goals-main.png" alt="Adjunct Faculty Gabriela Fernandez, director of the SDSU Metabolism of Cities Living Lab, supervises big data research that localizes the 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals" /><h3>SDSU lab dives into big data to localize UN Sustainable Development Goals</h3></a><p>At Metabolism of Cities Living Lab, researchers build awareness of climate change and give a voice to vulnerable populations along the U.S.-Mexico border and globally. </p></div></div><a class="cta cta--button more-from" href="/news/list?tag=Solutions">More Solutions</a></div></section> </div> <section class="news-homepage news-homepage-category-alt"><div class="container"><div class="category-header"><h2>SDSU Alumni</h2></div><div class="category-alt-container"><div class="articles"><div class="article"><h3><a href="https://www.sdsu.edu/news/2025/03/in-memoriam-leon-williams">In Memoriam: Leon Williams</a></h3><p>The SDSU trolley station is dedicated to the former councilman and transit board member, who attended the college on the G.I. Bill. </p></div><div class="article"><h3><a href="https://www.sdsu.edu/news/2025/02/graduates-unwavering-determination-zeroes-in">Graduate’s ‘unwavering determination’ zeroes in on biotech research</a></h3><p>SDSU’s R1 classification rests on the work of such students as Daniel Valencia and his mentors, looking into brain activity and computer interfaces. </p></div><div class="article"><h3><a href="https://www.sdsu.edu/news/2025/01/taking-aztec-golf-to-the-next-level">Taking Aztec Golf to the next level</a></h3><p>Inspired to advance Aztec Golf, SDSU alumni Jerry (‘58) and Carolyn Davee (‘59) have given a significant gift to support two on-campus golf simulators. </p></div><div class="article"><h3><a href="https://www.sdsu.edu/news/2025/01/how-jeff-lewis-took-his-hobby-to-a-thriving-career">How SDSU alumnus turned hobby into a thriving career</a></h3><p>From high school videos to a thriving business, Jeff Lewis built a creative career</p></div></div><div class="image-cta" 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