The Making of an Icon
How Alumna Ruth Bley lit the eastern span of the Bay Bridge — and redefined the region’s skyline
Is Your Physician Being Censored?
Assistant Professor Jason Smith says politicians are the fly on the wall in your doctor’s office
The Cut
Defying the Maasai tradition of female genital mutilation changed everything for alumna Juliet Naishorua
Go Ahead, Blame Twitter
How sharing memes may be keeping us apart
'I Was a Shadow in the Dark'
Student Rehan Siddique is first in a new East Bay Today series on social mobility to share how college is transforming his future
Blood Link
Assistant Professor Nazzy Pakpour researches the link between malaria transmission and a rising global epidemic
The Future of the Cosmos
Cal State East Bay astrophysicist talks gamma rays and gravitational waves
Grammy Kind of Mood
Graduate student Mario Silva plays trumpet on Morgan Heritage’s “Strictly Roots.” a 2015 Best Reggae Album nominee.
Great Krypton!
“Superman” writer Gene Luen Yang (MS ‘03) becomes first graphic novelist named national ambassador for youth literature.
Bringing Home Havana
Cal State East Bay students travel to Cuba, capture stories of communist life
Meet Cozmo
The tiny, cranky robot at the center of one cool senior project