MUSE - A Spartan Scholar from the Start: Spartan Pride
Spartan Pride
- The SJSU community is a richly diverse one, comprised of people
of many different ethnicities, cultures, educational backgrounds,
and ages.
- Silicon Valley firms employ more graduates from SJSU than from
any other university in the nation.
- SJSU partnered with the City of San José to create a significant
new library to serve the needs of the campus and surrounding community.
- SJSU is the only CSU campus that has an extended undergraduate
and graduate program in nuclear science.
- The Ira F. Brilliant Beethoven Center at SJSU is the only research
facility in North America solely dedicated to the study of the life
of the composer. It has the largest collection of Beethoven material
outside of Germany, including a lock of the great composer's hair.
- Three SJSU cultural anthropologists have become international
experts on how people survive and thrive in Silicon Valley. Drawing
on their 11 years of research on Silicon Valley, Professors Jan
English-Lueck, Charles Darrah and James Freeman have been consulted
and interviewed by the BBC, USA Today, Newsweek, and many more.
- In 2000, a 16-member team of manufacturing systems students beat
out 15 other universities to win the grand prize in competition
sponsored by the Society of Manufacturing Engineers for a wheelchair,
called the Grasshopper, that is designed for use on "off-road"
terrain.
- The SJSU football team beat Stanford three years in a row (1998,
1999, 2000).
- SJSU alumni have won a total of 18 Olympic medals over the years.
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