Category: News
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Showing San Jose Students How Geology Rocks!
Geology Rocks! brings fun and creative activities to 3rd through 5th graders at local elementary schools near San Jose State. CommUniverCity and geology professor LeAnne Teruya work together to bring this project to an after school program called Think Together at Horace Mann Elementary School and Lowell Elementary School. People of color are underrepresented within […]
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Teaching Students to Respond to Difficult Situations with SEGWAY
The fundamental purpose of SEGWAY is to expose school-age students to alternative behavioral responses. CommUniverCity partners with SJSU psychology graduate students to create an event in which students have a safe place to dialogue about everyday issues they face at school. Dr. Matthew Capriotti’s Psychology 142 students at San Jose State led socioemotional growth activities […]
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Ready, Set, Grow: Growing Sustainably brings the classroom outdoors
“This reminds me exactly of what we were learning in class this week!” an SJSU freshman studying Child and Adolescent Development (ChAD) recants after one particularly challenging garden education workshop in a 4th grade classroom. During this lesson on photosynthesis and what it takes for a plant to grow, this intern reflected back to behavior […]
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Community Planning: Alum Rock
A Vision for the Alum Rock Community of San Jose The Alum Rock Avenue corridor is an area located two miles east of San Jose’s downtown core. In the spring of 2019, Futuro de Alum Rock formed as a coalition of community organizations to address existing neighborhood concerns and anxieties over the City of San […]
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College Day: Guidance Through Stories
by Sarah Martinez The path to success is not a clear, straight arrow but with exposure to different pathways and people, children can begin laying down the foundation of their own success. College Day brings guest speakers from different backgrounds to schools all over Santa Clara County. For every guest speaker a student hears, they […]
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Animals, Advertising, and Jeremy
By Sarah Martinez Meet Jeremy Jeremy Selbach has been working with animals his whole life. From his childhood to his teen years, Jeremy spent his summers on his grandparents’ ranch taking care of all sorts of animals — growing up around animals has shaped his life. Now, Jeremy works at the County of Santa Clara […]
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Urban Planning: Diridon to Downtown
By Mindy Nguyen & Sarah Martinez Over the next 20 years, Downtown San Jose will be transformed as a result of developments and transportation investments, so we partnered with SJSU’s Master of Urban Planning students and the City of San Jose to assess the current conditions of the Diridon Station area and specific areas of […]
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Legacy of Poetry with Arthur Sze
By Sarah Martinez The past few weeks at CommUniverCity has been filled with poetry workshops taught by undergraduate and graduate SJSU students at various elementary schools. During these Legacy of Poetry workshops, children are taught a poetry lesson then challenged to create a poem themselves. For our very last workshop, we invited poet laureate Arthur […]
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SJSU Students Win Big at Awards Show
By Sarah Martinez CommUniverCity-initiated projects led by Advertising Associate Professor John Delacruz won several awards at the Silicon Valley American Advertising Federation ADDY Awards. The ADDYs are awards given to the advertising industry at both professional and student levels — SJSU students are judged alongside industry professionals. SJSU students took home nine awards ranging from […]
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Student Spotlight: Justin Chan
By Sarah Martinez As a fourth-year nutrition major at SJSU, Justin Chan volunteers his time during and after school teaching grade-school children about the importance of nutrition and garden education. Justin is a student intern for one of CommUniverCity’s Growing Sustainably programs. Within Santa Clara County, 25% of children were categorized as overweight or obese […]