For the first time in its 39-year history, the Bay Area Discrete Math Conference will be hosted at Stanislaus State. Those involved in the conference, set for Saturday, Oct. 19, simply call it BAD Math Day.

“The acronym is kind of weird, right?” joked Jessica Se Silva, an assistant professor of mathematics at Stan State. “It grabs people’s attention though.”

What is BAD Math Day? She said don’t be fooled by the acronym.

“We use it in a different way than you would normally think,” she said.

Paying for college can be an overwhelming financial strain for students and their families. Scholarships, grants and loans can ease the burden, but understanding the options and financial terminology can be challenging.

For help, students and families can look to the Stanislaus State Financial Aid and Scholarship Office. There, they’ll find the Financial Wellness Program and plenty of direction on how to access financial aid, choose loans and avoid costly financial missteps.

A $5,000 grant from California Humanities is bringing eight speakers to Stanislaus State’s annual GIS Day event to make bilingual presentations on their work and how it intertwines geography and the humanities in the pursuit of social justice.

Dr. Jeffrey Frost always has taught his students about a skull found in North America that included the upper portion of a wolf’s jaw stuck inside the mouth of the skull.

These days, his Stanislaus State archaeology class is getting a different perspective. They get to hold a replica of that wolf’s jaw, thanks to the three-dimensional printer the anthropology department is using.

Stan State has secured a grant of $1,093,064 over four years from the U.S. Department of Education to expand access to the University’s Child Development Center (CDC). 

Danica Bravo, who has spent the last two years at San Joaquin Delta College developing an outreach program for previously incarcerated students, has been hired by Stanislaus State in a similar role, a

Introducing students to agriculture beyond the strenuous work in the fields was the impetus for the $274,128 United States Department of Agriculture grant awarded earlier this month to the Stan State Agriculture Program.

The grant for “Recruiting and Preparing Underrepresented Hispanic Students for Careers in Agriculture through Experiential Learning Programs,” is the fourth USDA grant the agriculture department has received for this and similar purposes since 2015 and the second largest during that time.