(Rohnert Park) — A student-built satellite about twice the size of a Rubik’s Cube has passed a series of tests to travel to space this December as part of a NASA-funded project involving three universities including Sonoma State. Built in partnership with Santa Clara University and Morehead...
Sonoma State University will be welcoming two Nobel Prize winners and 350 other scientists from around the world on March 19 for a scientific team meeting that will celebrate the new field of Gravitational-Wave Astronomy. In conjunction with the meeting, on Tuesday, March 20, scientists from the...
Dr. Lynn Cominsky, chair of Department of Physics & Astronomy at Sonoma State University, was awarded the 2017 Frank J. Malina Astronautics Medal by the International Astronautical Federation....
Sonoma State University’s stellar Department of Physics & Astronomy has put the university on the heavenly map of the universe – an asteroid is now officially named “25164 Sonomastate.”
Dr. Lynn Cominsky, professor and chair...
Students at six Mendocino County high schools are learning how to make homemade Geiger counters and mud-powered batteries thanks to a group from Sonoma State University and a $3 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education.
The project, Learning By Making: STEM Success for...
Sonoma State University physics and astronomy professor Lynn Cominsky has received the $20,000 Wang Family Excellence Award for her extraordinary commitment to student achievement and exemplary contributions in her fields.
"Receiving the Wang award is the biggest thrill of my career,"...
Sonoma State University physics and astronomy professor Lynn Cominsky has received awards from two professional societies for her work in bringing STEM education to K-12 and college classrooms.
Cominsky is being honored with the American Astronomical Society's Education Prize and the...
For the first time, scientists have observed ripples in the fabric of spacetime called gravitational waves, arriving at the earth from a cataclysmic event in the distant universe. This confirms a major prediction of Albert Einstein's 1915 general theory of relativity and opens an unprecedented...
Sonoma State University physics and astronomy professor Lynn Cominsky reports on the recent observations of gravitational waves in the "What Physicists Do" lecture on March 21 at Sonoma State. Cominsky was part of the team that announced the discovery earlier this year.
The waves, ripples...
Physics and astronomy professor Lynn Cominsky continues to place Sonoma State University on the interstellar map. On Friday she received a commendation from California Assemblymember Bill Dodd for her work...
