News @ De Anza

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.

The Valley Transit Authority has reopened the Stelling Road bus stop, near Stevens Creek Boulevard on the east side of campus, after several months of construction.

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."

The De Anza Planetarium is getting a major upgrade, with a new laser show system that is five times more powerful than the previous system. The new system features immersive sound, full-color laser projectors and captivating graphics.

This year's Silicon Valley Reads campaign will begin with a Feb. 1 event at De Anza's Visual & Performing Arts Center, where Mercury News columnist Sal Pizarro will lead an on-stage conversation with the authors of this year's featured books.

The DASB and Inter Club Council are sponsoring a series of midday concerts on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, Jan. 8-10.

This fall, the California History Center at De Anza College is hosting "Ohlone Elders and Youth Speak: Restoring a California Legacy," featuring photography by Ruth Morgan and oral history gathered by Janet Clinger.

"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.