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Butterfly Crafting booth
Need a plushie? Ask a Cool Kids Crafter

Visitors to the Butterfly Crafting by Cool Kids booth at Santa Rosa’s Wednesday Farmers Market at the Farmers Lane Shopping Center will meet a group of unlikely but successful entrepreneurs led by special education teacher and SSU alumna Jackie Pinney, M.A. ‘24.

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SSU’s Hua hosts interns in new partnership with Healdsburg High

In a significant step toward fostering local talent and bridging the gap between high school education and scientific research, Dr.

Diver and seagrass
Professor Brent Hughes and Abbey Dias '23 play key roles in global Seagrass Restoration Handbook and videos

Sonoma State biology professor Brent Hughes and graduate Abbey Dias ‘23 contributed to a new, publicly available how-to handbook and video series being released i

Libby Payan on bus
Alumna Libby Payan '14 shares public sector career tips

“Get involved!”

Admitting that during SSU Orientation she thought, “Are they getting paid by how many times they say that?” Libby Payan ‘14 offered it as Life Lesson #1 to share with current students during a recent “Industry Insights” seminar.

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SSU among 11 CSUs selected to receive ethnic studies advancement and expansion grants

Sonoma State University is one of 11 CSUs selected to receive more than $1 million in systemwide grants aimed at enhancing ethnic studies programs and increasing student participation in ethnic studies pathways.

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Record number of high schoolers enroll in SSU Education class

As part of a pathways program, 122 high school students from Sonoma, Marin, and Mendocino counties and the East Bay are dual enrolled in an SSU education class this spring.

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SSU gains research designation

Sonoma State University joined more than half of the 23 California State University campuses in receiving a new Carnegie designation known as “Research Colleges and Universities” or “RCU,”

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'Transforming AI' speaker Mercer at Sonoma State February 10

Shelton Mercer III, an award-winning entrepreneur, innovation pioneer, and humanitarian, was the featured speaker for “Conversations with Black and Brown in Blue: Transforming AI through Authentic Ingenuity” Monday, February 10 in Sonoma State’s Student Center.

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Carston family gifts $1 Million to SSU Foundation and Green Music Center

Gayle and Arnie Carston gave a lifetime gift of $1 million to the Sonoma State University Foundation and the Green Music Center (GMC) in November. It’s a donation decades in the making. 

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CSU announces landmark public-private initiative that will make it the nation’s first and largest AI-powered university system

Today, the California State University (CSU), the largest and most diverse public four-year university in the country, announced a first-of-its-kind public-private initiative with some of the world’s leading tech companies, including Adobe, Alphabet (Google), AWS, IBM, Instructure, Intel, LinkedI