Petaluma’s Ready for Kindergarten has been awarded Sonoma State University’s Jack London Award for Educational Innovation. Ready for Kindergarten is a program run by Petaluma’s adult education program. It’s a bilingual kindergarten transition program for disadvantaged children who have had little or no preschool. In the program, parents attend class [...]
UPDATE: The folks at the Sonoma County Office of Education just sent over more pictures from this weekend's spelling bee. Check them out. ____ Sixty of California’s top elementary school spellers gathered at Sonoma State University Saturday for the annual spelling bee held to crown the state’s top speller. Andrew [...]
Elsie Allen High senior Ben Nguyen is Santa Rosa City Schools high school student of the month for May. Nguyen, the class valedictorian, has earned a 4.58 grade point average and is bound for Dartmouth in the fall. Because of his extensive studies and commitment to Elsie’s University Center program, [...]
Sonoma State University will host a free star gazing event on May 14 at the campus outdoor observatory. The focus of the next star gazing night is the dynamic created by a black hole near a group of galaxies called the “Virgo Cluster.” The dynamic in Virgo Cluster is “providing [...]
Sonoma State University students have raised more than $4,700 for the American Cancer Society in advance of the Relay for Life event scheduled for May 15-16. It is the first time SSU students have hosted a Relay for Life event. Eighteen teams made up of 136 participants plan to run [...]
Sonoma State University will host approximately 130 colleges and universities for the North Bay College Fair May 4. The event will run from 5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. in the main gym. It is free and open to the public. Those who attend can receive information from a variety of campuses [...]
UPDATE: Just received photos of professors Cushman and Grobbel from SSU. Here they are: _____________ Sonoma State professors Hall Cushman and Michaela Grobbel have been named the university’s recipients of the Goldstein Award for Excellence in Scholarship. Cushman has been at SSU teaching biology since 1994 and in that time [...]
Sonoma State University has unveiled its spring lineup of concerts: Sunday April 18 Violinists Ben Sinohara and Heidi Wilcox, violist Wayne Roden and cellist Judiyaba. Concert begins at 7:30 p.m. in Ives Concert Hall, 119. April 24 Hindustani vocalist Laxmi Tewari will perform classical Northern Indian music. Concert begins at [...]
Sonoma State University’s Associated Students is hosting a talk on April 26 by Jessica Jackley, co-founder of Kiva.org, the world’s first peer-to-peer micro-lending website, as part of Financial Literacy Awareness Month. The event, “Kiva and the new business thinking: Challenging common business practices,” is being arranged in coordination with SSU’s [...]
The Sonoma State University Nursing program will again offer low cost physical examinations and health appraisals for children and adults this spring. The Family Nurse Practitioner Program will host examinations on Wednesdays through May 19. The exams are supervised by nursing faculty and performed by nursing students who are registered [...]