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Zipcar

The car rental service Zipcar has landed at Sonoma State University. The convenient transportation option is now available 24 hours a day, seven days a week for students, faculty, and staff ages 18 and older, as well as members of the local community over the age of 21.

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Gravitational Waves Lecture

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.

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Sports Update Mar. 13

Sonoma State University sports update, March 8-15. Women's golf captures tournament title, women's tennis suffers first loss of the season and baseball loses to Academy of Art.

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CATS a Wrap

After 29 years at Sonoma State University, psychology professor Lorna Catford, director of SSU's Collaborative Autism Training and Support (CATS) program, is retiring at the end of this academic year.

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Sports Update Mar. 15

Sonoma State University sports update, March 8-15. Women's golf captures tournament title, women's tennis suffers first loss of the season and baseball loses to Academy of Art.

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Academy Fellow

Sonoma State University biology professor Daniel E. Crocker has been named an Academy Fellow at the California Academy of Sciences.

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Holocaust and Genocide Lecture Series

Carol Rittner, the Marsha Raticoff professor of Holocaust Studies at Stockton University in New Jersey, speaks on the topic of gender and genocide on Tuesday, March 22 as Sonoma State University's Holocaust and Genocide Lecture Series honors Women's History Month.

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'Canterbury Tales' Online

Sonoma State University English professor Brantley Bryant, author of Middle English modern satire "Geoffrey Chaucer Hath a Blog," is spearheading the creation of an online open access companion to Chaucer's "The Canterbury Tales" that will be free for students to use as a resource for studying th

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Migrant Crisis

Since summer 2015, historians, sociologists, and media outlets have stated time and again that the current migrant crisis in Europe is the greatest since the end of World War II, pitting European nations against one another.

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Royal Society Publication

Sonoma State University economics professor Merlin Hanauer is publishing two articles in the prestigious Philosophical Transactions B of the Royal Society, considered the world's longest running science publication.