SF State College of Science and Engineering

More than 60 members of the Biology Department spent their summer rebuilding lab curricula from the ground up to make them remote-ready and to foreground racial justice and equity.

San Francisco Mayor London Breed told more than 7,700 graduates at San Francisco State’s June 18 virtual Commencement that they were the key to a brighter future for the world.

Tomorrow, 7,700 students will graduate in SF State’s first virtual commencement ceremony. Read about the two amazing graduates chosen to represent the College of Science & Engineering. https://cose.sfsu.edu//students-caitlin-waddle-and-melanie

SF State leaders shared a powerful message with our campus community on Tuesday, June 2 about racism, police brutality and our role as an institution for higher education with a social justice mission. The full message is available here: https://bit.ly/2MoTLEw

When COVID-19 pushed classes online, Professor of Biology Katharyn Boyer wasn’t about to cut her course’s lab experiment short so she moved it to the deck of her own home. Read about how Boyer and other instructors have gone above and beyond to deliver a quality remote education to SF State students:

Read about how the SF State community and CoSE in particular has stepped up to help in the response to COVID-19 in the Bay Area, including donating tens of thousands of gloves and 3D-printing face shields for local medical facilities.

Between making educational videos and sharing her virus expertise in outlets like WIRED and the New York Times, Assistant Professor of Biology Pleuni Pennings has been setting the record straight on COVID-19. In a LiveScience article published yesterday, she debunks a study claiming that the virus could have hopped from dogs to humans. https://www.livescience.com/did-coronavirus-evolve-in-dogs-

There has never been a more urgent or opportune time to reimagine our public streets and provide for public health. Read an op-ed by Professor of Geography & Environment about prioritizing walkers and cyclists in a period of social distancing. https://sfpublicpress.org//sf-needs-to-shut-down-streets-d

Having trouble managing anxiety around COVID-19? Assistant Professor of Psychology Melissa Hagan talked to SFGate about what you can do about it. There’s a lot in the news about how fast the disease is spreading, Hagan said. A lot of that information is not important for people to be ruminating on.

Research studies need to include a greater diversity of participants and an all-Latina team led by SF State Adjunct Assistant Professor of Biology Cathy Samayoa is leading the way.

The Genentech Foundation has given its largest-ever grant to CoSE to train students for life sciences careers! The grant will support more than 100 students each year for the next five years.

Listen to Chris McCarthy and Jessica Agnos of SF State Physics & Astronomy share their astronomical perspective about the Earth and climate change on the http://Voices.earth podcast.

A new study by a team including EOS Center scientists flips the conventional wisdom on sea otters and shows they might be able to make a home in San Francisco Bay.