Judo coach Yosh Uchida at San José State College, now San José State University, helped turn the martial art into a competitive sport and led the U.S. team to a bronze medal at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics.

The Moss Landing Marine Laboratories at San José State University comprise the second-oldest marine lab on Monterey Bay and have garnered international recognition of excellence in research and teaching.

In 1967, Humboldt State University students founded what has become the oldest student-run film festival in the U.S.!

San José State University alumnus Gaylord Nelson ('39) founded Earth Day in 1970, sparking decades of public and governmental interest in the health of the environment.

Since its establishment in 1975, CSU Chico's campus newspaper, The Orion, has won 10 National Pacemaker Awards, considered the Pulitzer Prizes of student journalism, along with numerous other honors.

In 1976, the California State College at Long Beach, now CSU Long Beach, sent 16 participants to the Olympic Games-more than any other American university!

In 1978, the California State College at Long Beach, now CSU Long Beach, built the largest submarine sandwich ever, earning a Guinness World Record.

CSU Researchers Geoffrey Marcy and R. Paul Butler's discovery of two Jupiter-like planets was featured on the February 5, 1996, cover of Time magazine.

Nineteen-year-old CSU Dominguez Hills sophomore Roland Clarkson discovered the largest known prime number-909,526 digits long-in 1998.

At the Shell Eco-Marathon in 2008, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo's Supermileage vehicle logged a record efficiency of 2,752.3 miles per gallon!

Fragments of Ludwig van Beethoven's skull and strands of his hair are housed in the Ira F. Brilliant Center for Beethoven Studies at San José State University, the only research and study center in North America devoted to Beethoven and his music.

Cal State San Bernardino is the only campus in the CSU (and possibly the country) with a center for the Study of Hate and Extremism.

In 1960, 40 percent of the CSU's nearly 95,000 students were women. By 2009, there were over 430,000 students, 58 percent of them female!

As of 2009, the CSU has conferred 364 honorary doctorates to distinguished individuals who have made significant contributions to their respective fields, the CSU and the world, such as John F. Kennedy, Bill Cosby, Billie Jean King, Stephen Jay Gould, Julia Child and Isabel Allende.