This video was created to accompany "Shooting the Stars" by Oliver Michelson. Video created by Oliver Michelson and Rene Ramirez.

  Andy Macica caught his first picture of a supernova by accident. He shot Messier 51, what he refers to as either M51 or “the Whirlpool Galaxy,” 23 million lightyears away on his home telescope....

When SF State grounds manager Robert Murphy and the rest of the grounds team arrive on campus at 6 a.m., it is eerily quiet. The sun won’t rise for another hour, and students and faculty won’t begin...

This podcast was created to accompany the story They Speak for the Trees by Oliver Michelsen.

  This video was created to accompany the story "SF State’s Complicated Relationship with Free Speech" by Oliver Michelsen, published on March 18, 2022. 

In November of 1968, thousands filled San Francisco State University’s campus in a revolutionary strike to protest racial inequities in the school’s curriculum and admissions. For five months, Ronald...

It was another cold San Francisco afternoon in February as Lizzie sat on the bench outside SF State’s student services building. It wasn’t until about half an hour before closing that she mustered...