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November 2006 Newsletter1. HOLIDAY MESSAGE
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The
Alumni Association would like to wish you and your family a wonderful holiday
season. We hope as we move toward 2007 that you take the time to reconnect with
your alma mater. Great things are in store for 2007 as SJSU moves into its
sesquicentennial. As the oldest public institution of higher education on the
West Coast, SJSU will mark its 
The annual San José State University football awards banquet is set for Sunday, December 3, 4:30 p.m., at the Dolce Hayes Mansion located at 200 Edenvale Avenue in San José. The ceremony will include team awards, a salute to the 2006 senior class, and will recognize individual accomplishments of the first Spartan football squad in six years to become bowl-eligible. Cost of the banquet is $75.00 per person. Guests can sponsor a student athlete’s participation in the event. Parking is free at the Dolce Hayes Mansion. Call the San José State University football office at 408-924-1266 or email Wendy Dunn for information and to make a reservation.
Presented by the
SJSU Alumni Association. For more information on this trip, including a full
itinerary, cost and dates, please visit our 
Did
you know there are now over 110 different interest-based groups in the new SJSU
On-line Network? 
today to register!
SJSU student films took top honors at the Campus
MovieFest Bay Area Grand Finale held October 20 at downtown San José's
California Theatre. "Chicken Strip Jeff" received the TCM Classic Short Film
Award. Robbie Benson, Jeffrey Benson, Robert Krakower and Jonathan Magram
produced the film, which will be aired on the Turner Classic Movies channel in
spring 2007. In addition, SJSU's "The Inside Scoop" received the Golden Tripod
Award and "One Eighty One: A Chronicle of Life and Death" won for Best Special
Effects. SJSU, Santa Clara University, Sonoma State University, Stanford
University and University of California-Berkeley participated in the
competition. 
The National Science Foundation has awarded a $1.4 million grant to a research team, which includes three SJSU College of Engineering professors. The team will study how building systems respond to earthquakes, focusing specifically on architectural elements such as windows and surface treatments. The researchers include: Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering Kurt McMullin, Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Winncy Du, and Professor of Electrical Engineering Thuy Le, a University of California faculty member and a practicing consultant engineer. Their plans include building and testing a model structure at the George E. Brown Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation laboratory, which is housed at the University of California, Berkeley. The entire endeavor reflects a worldwide effort among engineers to expand their focus from earthquake safety to earthquake recovery.
San José State University's Mineta Transportation Institute will
receive $8 million in state and federal funding over the next four years after
winning a tough U.S. Department of Transportation competition pitting SJSU
against 36 of the nation's top research universities. The funding will be used
to expand many of the institute's endeavors including its semi-annual national
symposia on transportation security and finance, its peer-reviewed research on
the same topics, and its master of science in transportation management and
professional certificate programs. "MTI is significantly enhancing the nation's
international geo-economic competitiveness by specializing in top-quality,
practical research," said Rod Diridon Sr., the institute's executive director.
San
José State received a trio of rushing touchdowns from Patrick Perry and a
50-yard scoring toss from Adam Tafralis as they handled the Idaho Vandals,
28-13, at the Kibbie Dome, in Moscow, ID. The Spartans improve to 7-4 overall
and 4-3 in the WAC. Idaho finishes their season at 4-8 overall and 3-5 in the
WAC. Tafralis opened the scoring with just under one minute remaining in the
first-quarter when he connected with John Broussard on a 50-yard touchdown
strike down the middle of the field. The score was the fifth of the season for
Broussard and his fourth scoring pass of 40 yards or more. The second quarter
scoring belonged to the Vandals. Tino Amancio knocked home a 28-yard field goal
and Jayson Bird scored on a two-yard run to take a 10-7 lead entering halftime.
Ryan Angel of the San José State University baseball
team has been named to the 2007 Wallace Watch, released Monday, November 20, by
the College Baseball Foundation. The Brooks Wallace Award is presented annually
to the national college baseball player of the year. Angel, a senior
outfielder/infielder out of Rocklin, Calif., and Rocklin High School, played a
total of five different positions for the Spartans in 2006. He led San José
State in almost every offensive statistical category, and did not commit a
single error in the field in 127 defensive chances, totaling the most chances
without an error for a non-catcher in the entire Western Athletic Conference.
Angel earned second-team All-WAC distinction at the end of the season. He
finished with a .318 batting average, 74 hits, 43 runs scored, 20 doubles, five
home runs, 36 runs batted in and 111 total bases, all team highs, while also
swiping 16 bases. 
Three San José State volleyball players, led by senior Jessie Shull, were named to All-Western Athletic Conference postseason teams Tuesday night as voted upon by the conference’s head volleyball coaches. Shull was named to the first team, while Colleen Burke and Niki Clement were named to the second team.
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