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2 unusual facts about San Jose State University


Henry Lytton-Cobbold

In 2008 he engaged in a debate with Scott Rice, founder of the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest, a bad-writing contest sponsored annually by San Jose State University, on the subject of the literary reputation of his ancestor Bulwer-Lytton.

San Jose State University

SJSU alumni have won 19 Olympic medals (including seven gold medals) dating back to the first gold medal won by Willie Steel in track and field in the 1948 Olympics.


Clayborne Carson

His daughter Temera, who is employed by the County of Santa Clara, graduated from San Jose State University with a masters degree in social work, and lives with her three children in East Palo Alto, California.

Delta Classic

Fitz Hill created the event, then known as the Literacy Classic while serving as head football coach at San Jose State University.

Janet Dunbar

Prior to the CCRMA years, Dunbar earned a Master of Arts degree in Music from San Jose State University, where the composer studied composition, counterpoint and agogic accentation with Tikey Zes, electronic music composition with Allen Strange, and instrumental composition with Jorge Liderman.

Jason Simontacchi

Jason attended San Jose State University from 1994–1996 and pledged the Cal Iota chapter of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity as a member of the Alpha Theta pledge class.

John Duryea

Then assigned in 1950, as Catholic chaplain, first at San José State University and in 1961, Stanford University, where he became immensely popular and influential as the pastor of St. Ann's Chapel, Palo Alto.

Jürgen Bräuninger

Jürgen Bräuninger studied at the State University of Music and Performing Arts Stuttgart with Ulrich Süsse and Erhard Karkoschka and at San Jose State University, California, with Allen Strange and Dan Wyman.

K. P. H. Notoprojo

He moved to Valencia, California in 1971 and taught at the California Institute of the Arts until 1992, in addition to work at University of California, Berkeley, San Jose State University, and many other universities in the US and Canada.

Kris Wang

Wang received her undergraduate degree in statistics and master's degree in business management from University of Phoenix, and her graduate studies in computer science at San Jose State University.

Neal Dahlen

Dahlen attended Capuchino High School in San Bruno, California, and played quarterback at San Jose State University, where he graduated from in 1963 (and earned a master's in 1964).

Rita Sanchez

She graduated from San Bernardino High School in 1956 and studied journalism at San Jose State University as one of the first Mexican-Americans to attend college, but did not finish her degree.

Robert E. Page, Jr.

With support from the G.I. Bill, he received his undergraduate degree in entomology, with a minor in chemistry, from San Jose State University in 1976.

Robert Frankenberg

While at HP, he earned a degree in computer engineering from San Jose State University in 1974 and completed the Stanford Executive Program at Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Strive for College

Strive for College's growth was sustained with the help of influential connections, receiving advice and support from philanthropist Connie Lurie, former SJSU President Don Kassing, and education innovator Tom Vander Ark.

Teatro Campesino

Luis Valdez, a Chicano from a migrant farmworker family, founded the troupe after attending San Jose State University and working briefly with the San Francisco Mime Troupe.


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Ahmad Faruqui

He has taught economics at the University of California - Davis, San Jose State University, and Karachi University and lectured on national security issues at the Army War College, Naval Postgraduate School, Stanford University and the University of California, Berkeley.

Béla Bánáthy

Béla Heinrich Bánáthy (1919 – 2003), a linguist, systems scientist and a professor at San José State University and UC Berkeley

NeuroSky

Because NeuroSky also produces research grade EEG technology it has partnerships with a number of universities and research intuitions including: Johns Hopkins, Brown University, Duke University, University of California San Diego, San Jose State University, Dongguk University, University of Glasgow, The Hong Kong PolyTechnic University, and Trinity College, Dublin.

Robert Caret

In 1997 Caret and former San José Mayor Susan Hammer discussed the idea of creating a joint library to benefit the city of San Jose and San Jose State University.