A recently created video features some of SF State’s most notable alumni discuss the role that their higher education has played in their career success. “Alumni Reflect” features College of Creative Arts grads Jeffrey Tambor, Peter Casey, John Handy, Ken Bastida, Malou Nubla and Wesla Whitfield.

The Design for All Institute of India devoted two issues of its newsletter to universal design projects at SF State, from student competitions and curriculum to accessible landscapes and wind chimes.

A class in the Broadcast and Electronic Communication Arts Department is on a mission in India this summer to bring more smiles to children’s faces. The Media and Community Service course, led by Professor Betsy Blosser, has traveled to India to produce a video for the Smile Foundation, which promotes education as the primary means of affecting social change.

Many immigrant families worked and lived behind the scenes at historic Bay Meadows in San Mateo, recently demolished to make way for luxury housing and high-end commercial space. The story of one of these families, during Bay Meadows’ final season, is told in a new documentary by Cinema alumna Tricia Creason-Valencia.

Alum Daniel Sullivan, the Tony Award winner who credits SF State for giving him the “theatre bug,” is directing “Twelfth Night” this summer at Shakespeare in the Park in New York City.

Teaching ceramics at SF State for nearly four decades, David Kuraoka has cemented a solid following in the art world, among art lovers, critics and students. This was on display recently in “Firing a Legacy: David Kuraoka and San Francisco State University,” at Pence Gallery in Davis.

Last year’s SF State collaboration on art and criminal justice in America is back to life, in the form of a Web site featuring video clips.

Alumna Mary Chun, conductor of the Earplay new music ensemble, recently showcased her unique skills playing a rarely used electric instrument called the ondes martenot.

There is a movement to build permanent, quasi-sovereign nations floating in international waters.

Alumna Michelle DeYoung, a Grammy winning mezzo-soprano, recently enjoyed several gigs with the San Francisco Symphony. Performing works by Schubert and Berg, DeYoung (attended ’89-’90) garnered acclaim from Bay Area classical music critics.