Sonoma State University music professor Laxmi G. Tewari will give a performance of traditional Hindustani classic vocal music on Nov. 13. An ethnomusicologist at SSU since 1974, Tewari has travelled worldwide, living among rural people in Turkey, India, Trinidad and Tobago and collecting their folk music, according to SSU. Singing [...]
UPDATED: Here is some revised information on the blog item posted Monday on the math grant won by four local school districts, the Sonoma County Office of Education and Sonoma State University. Bellevue District is the lead player in a team that won a California Mathematics and Science Partnership grant. The [...]
In honor of Election Day, I post this: Nov. 19 through Nov. 21 Sonoma State University will host “Engaging the Other: The Power of Compassion,” a three day conference “to promote wider and more skillful public dialogue about how to improve understanding in relationships and agreements, locally and globally,” according [...]
Sonoma State University is expanding to two days a week its low-cost health exam program this fall/winter. Exams will be given Wednesdays and Fridays Oct. 6 through Dec. 17. Exams by nurses in the SSU Family Nurse Practitioner program will be offered to residents of Sonoma, Marin, Mendocino, Humboldt, Napa [...]
In addition to the series of free tours of SSU’s Green Music Center (read about those by clicking here: http://bit.ly/c9vcU1) the school is also hosting a number of free musical performances in the coming months. The concerts are free and open to the public but RSVPs are required. To reserve [...]
UPDATE: Here is some updated information on parking for the music center tours: Visitor parking is available for $2.50 which can be purchased at the Parking Information Booth across from the Center. The previous post has been corrected below. ______ Want to check out the Green Music Center at Sonoma [...]
Dorothy Rudy, an adjunct professor of Spanish at SSU, this summer read thousands of Advanced Placement Spanish exams. It’s a duty she has enjoyed for a quarter century. “I get together with so many of my colleagues once a year. We talk about what we are teaching, we talk about [...]
Don't click on this one if you don't have some time to kill -- it sucks you in rather quickly. Sonoma State University has put more of its historic photo collection online. The North Bay Historic Preservation Digital Collection can be found at http://northbaydigital.sonoma.edu/ The first 200 images are part [...]
UPDATE: Here is a photo of Ayala, submitted by SSU. ___ Sonoma State University has named Carlos Ayala the interim dean of the School of Education. He begins the job on Aug. 1. Ayala will replace Mary Gendernalik-Cooper who is set to become the dean of the College of Education [...]
Sonoma State University has a limited number of scholarships available for its summer EXCEL for youth summer enrichment program. Scholarships are still available for low income students who qualify. For more information, contact Alison Marks at 664-2394 or Alison.marks@sonoma.edu. Classes are one to two weeks and take place on the [...]