
Sonoma State University student Emily Hinton, 21, was appointed by Governor Jerry Brown to the California State University Board of Trustees on June 20 as a student member. Hinton, a former Associated Students president at Sonoma State, will serve until 2019.

There are 1,100 empty pairs of shoes scattered in the grass outside the library, each representing a life on a college campus lost to suicide last year.

There are 1,100 empty pairs of shoes scattered in the grass outside the library, each representing a life on a college campus lost to suicide last year.

Sonoma State University (SSU) launches its inaugural Social Justice Week March 23-27 with a presentation by former Black Panther, Mama Charlotte Hill O'Neal, who is also an accomplished poet, musician and visual artist, and founding director of Tanzania's United African Alliance Community Center.

From microwaved lipstick to an alarm clock that wakes you up with the scent of bacon, contestants on the TV show Shark Tank have been pitching their ideas to millionaire investors for six seasons, and now it's coming to Sonoma State Univ

Parents and supporters of the 43 Ayotzinapa students kidnapped and disappeared in Iguala, Mexico last September are holding a press conference at noon, followed by a public forum at 12:30 p.m. on April 7 in the Student Center Ballroom C.

Guillermo Gómez-Peña, a performing artist and self-proclaimed reverse anthropologist and nomadic provocateur performs May 6 in Weill Hall at Sonoma State University's Green Music Center in a performance titled "Imaginary Activism: The Role of the Artist Beyond the Art World."

For students across the nation, graduating from high school is a celebratory achievement. This task is made much more difficult for children of migrant farm workers and low-income families with no knowledge in guiding their kids to obtain higher education.

"People's friendships aren't as different as they may seem," says Sonoma State University sociology professor Brian Gillespie, the lead author of a 25,000-subject