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Helena Foster
Circle of Trees

She gently grasped the branch and kissed a newly formed leaf of the horse chestnut tree in Sonoma State University's Holocaust and Genocide Memorial Grove.

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Learning Rocks

Sonoma State University's Geology Lecture Series brings speakers from around Northern California to the Rohnert Park campus. Lectures are in Darwin 128 at noon on Thursdays. All are welcome to join the speaker for an informal lunch on campus after the talk.

Social Science Lectures

The School of Social Sciences' annual Brown Bag Lecture Series features presentations by Sonoma State faculty on their current areas of research. Topics for this fall's series include autism spectrum disorders, the rise of factory farming and more. Lectures are noon to 1 p.m. in Stevenson 2011.

Taylor Enzler
Sports Update Sept. 13

Sonoma State University sports update, September 7-13.

conductor leading orchestra
Concerted Effort

Sonoma State University students Zachary Hall and Megan Rice, winners of last year's concerto competition, are featured in the SSU Symphony Orchestra's program, "A Concerted Effort," in Weill Hall at the Green Music Center, September 30, 7:30 p.m.

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Engineering Lectures

The Sonoma State University Engineering Lecture Series features lectures on mobile communications, robotics and humanitarian innovation. Lectures are the first and third Thursdays in Salazar Hall, room 2009A, 4:30-5:30 p.m. Admission is free, parking is $5-$8 on campus.

Courtney Seda in action
Sports Update Sept. 6

Sonoma State University sports update, September 1-6. Women's Volleyball ends tournament with two wins; men's soccer fights for a pair of draws; women's soccer loses a match and settles for a draw in another; women's track and field finishes fourth at invitational.

Adelie Penguin
Biology Colloquium

Sonoma State University's Biology Colloquium features exciting lectures on forest pathogens creating rise of sudden oak death, monitoring of Adelie penguins, prevention of autoimmune Type 1 diabetes and more.

SSU News
Grants Report

Sonoma State University received $770,000 in new grant funding in the month of July and $2.2 million in new grant funding in the month of August.

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Environmental Forum

Sonoma State University's 2016 Environmental Forum features lectures on topics like climate solutions, growing local food systems, embracing sustainability and more, including a special lecture by Sonoma Clean Power Executive