News @ De Anza

Roxana Castellón found what she was looking for at De Anza. She's a student in Design and Manufacturing Technologies, working toward a certificate as a CNC Research and Development Machinist.

Christina Espinosa-Pieb will serve as interim president starting July 1 when President Brian Murphy retires. The selection was announced Tuesday by Chancellor Judy Miner.

In this new video, DJ Patil speaks about the importance of community colleges and his own experience at De Anza. Patil, the former U.S. Chief Data Scientist, gave a May 7 talk at a special 50th Anniversary event on campus.

Join us for the May 18 dedication of the Gene Haas Center for Design and Manufacturing at De Anza College. The college was awarded a $1 million gift by the Gene Haas Foundation to expand its Design and Manufacturing Technologies (DMT) classrooms and labs.

President Brian Murphy has announced plans to retire at the end of the academic year, after leading one of California's most distinguished community colleges for the past 14 years.

The League for Innovation in the Community College will present its annual Excellence Awards next month to three members of the De Anza community. The awards are given for outstanding contributions in teaching, leadership and service.

An ambitious digital storytelling project is moving forward at De Anza with help from a new grant by the nonprofit California Humanities organization.

When it came time for college, home-schooled student Austin Pleban knew he'd be venturing into a new kind of environment. Watch this video profile of a De Anza student who says the experience has been "awesome."

"Picturing Humanity: De Anza's Veteran Scholars" is an exhibit of larger-than-life photo portraits that will introduce you to some of the student veterans at De Anza.

A dramatic discovery in Kenya is shedding new light on the common ancestry of apes and humans, according to Dr. Isaiah Nengo, a De Anza College anthropology instructor and leader of the team that found a 13-million-year-old baby ape skull.