Any event that allows guests to play Pac-Man using Play-Doh controllers and interact with robotic vehicles spinning around the room is sure to bring a crowd.
Sonoma State University concluded its final lecture of this semester’s series, What Physicists Do, on Nov. 18 with Deborah Bard. She is a cosmologist from Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) and Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology (KIPAC).
It isn’t every day that a person can mix a love of breaking things and encouraging others to becoming a motivational speaker, but that is exactly what Dean Johnson did. On Nov. 13, Johnson came and spoke to a group of students at Athletes in Action (AIA), an on-campus Christian group.
Academy Awards nominee “The Invisible War,” a 2012 documentary on rape victims in the U.S. military, now hits a lot closer to home. With one of the women in the film living here in Rohnert Park, the Feminist Lecture Series at Sonoma State invited her to speak about the traumatic personal experiences she encountered and those of other females in the military.
Recently, statewide cuts to many ethnic studies programs throughout the California University System have threatened many schools’ programs. Sonoma State has so far avoided any cuts, and is actually expanding its two majors.
This week John Stayton will step in as the new executive director of graduate and executive education for both the executive and evening MBA programs in Sonoma’s School of Business and Economics. Although he is new to Sonoma State, Stayton has already made a big splash both in Sonoma County and at Dominican University in San Rafael.
For a university of roughly 8,500 people, support for athletics may be somewhat lacking, especially since SSU athletic teams continue to rise above many teams from larger, more spirited schools. The Sports Management Group in association with the Athletics Association are working to bring a more cohesive school spirit to SSU.
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