2008 Woodie Awards
News Briefs
Issue date: 2/22/06 Section: News
Upcoming meetings
The President's Budgetary Advisory Committee meeting (PBAC) will be held at the Commons on Thursday, Feb. 23 from 8:00-10:00 a.m. The Academic Senate will meet at the Commons on Thursday, Feb. 23 from 3:00-5:00 p.m. A detailed update on the Green Music Center is on the agenda. The meeting is open to the public.
Wasp joins board at KRCB-TV
SSU's media relations coordinator Jean Wasp has joined the board of directors of KRCB-TV and FM 91 (www.krcb.org), the PBS and NPR stations serving the North Bay. She has more than 30 years of experience in North Bay media relations including 11 years at the Press Democrat and managing editor positions at three Marin weeklies. Wasp has also been a volunteer television producer and actively pursues longtime interests in video, film, photography and pop culture.
Human-induced global warming at SSU
A physical oceanographer who has found evidence for human-induced ocean warming will describe his work in a free public lecture at 4 p.m. on Monday, Feb. 27 in Schulz 3001. "The amount of heat that has gone into the oceans is truly remarkable," says Tim Barnett, a marine physicist of the University of California, San Diego. "When you look at the energy, if we could tap it - we can't-but if we could, it would supply the energy needs of the state of California, the seventh biggest economy in the world, for 215,000 years."
For more on Barnett's discoveries see:
http://www.sci-techtoday.com/story.xhtml?story_id=0200014D54OO
Excellence in Teaching Award nominations open
Nominations for the annual Excellence in Teaching Awards opened
Feb. 10. These annual awards recognize and reward excellence in teaching at SSU. Each year the award honors faculty members who have made outstanding contributions to the education of Sonoma State students through classroom instruction and other activities that promote student learning. Anyone in the SSU community may nominate an instructor, but there are no self-nominations allowed. Any member of the instructional, library or student affairs faculty, any administrator, or staff member who teaches credit-bearing courses may be nominated. To be eligible, the nominee must have taught at SSU for at least four semesters during the previous five academic years, one of those semesters being in the academic year in which the nomination occurs. Letters of nomination may be sent to the Academic Senate office, Stevenson 1071. More information about the awards is available at http://www.sonoma.edu/Senate/EXCELTEACH.html.
Nominations close on Mar. 10.
The party's over
Richard Heinberg, author of "The Party's Over: Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies," will give a presentation on Thursday, Feb. 23 in Stevenson 1002.
For more information, contact Michael Cohen from the Biology Department at 664-3413
Project Censored celebrates 30 years
Project Censored will celebrate its 30-year anniversary on Mar. 11 at the Rohnert Park Community Center, 5402 Snyder Lane. The event will include a silent auction, a no-host bar, music and dinner. Morgan Spurlock, producer/director of the film Super Size Me, will be the keynote speaker. Reservations must be made by Feb. 28. Go to www.projectcensored.org for more details.
The President's Budgetary Advisory Committee meeting (PBAC) will be held at the Commons on Thursday, Feb. 23 from 8:00-10:00 a.m. The Academic Senate will meet at the Commons on Thursday, Feb. 23 from 3:00-5:00 p.m. A detailed update on the Green Music Center is on the agenda. The meeting is open to the public.
Wasp joins board at KRCB-TV
SSU's media relations coordinator Jean Wasp has joined the board of directors of KRCB-TV and FM 91 (www.krcb.org), the PBS and NPR stations serving the North Bay. She has more than 30 years of experience in North Bay media relations including 11 years at the Press Democrat and managing editor positions at three Marin weeklies. Wasp has also been a volunteer television producer and actively pursues longtime interests in video, film, photography and pop culture.
Human-induced global warming at SSU
A physical oceanographer who has found evidence for human-induced ocean warming will describe his work in a free public lecture at 4 p.m. on Monday, Feb. 27 in Schulz 3001. "The amount of heat that has gone into the oceans is truly remarkable," says Tim Barnett, a marine physicist of the University of California, San Diego. "When you look at the energy, if we could tap it - we can't-but if we could, it would supply the energy needs of the state of California, the seventh biggest economy in the world, for 215,000 years."
For more on Barnett's discoveries see:
http://www.sci-techtoday.com/story.xhtml?story_id=0200014D54OO
Excellence in Teaching Award nominations open
Nominations for the annual Excellence in Teaching Awards opened
Feb. 10. These annual awards recognize and reward excellence in teaching at SSU. Each year the award honors faculty members who have made outstanding contributions to the education of Sonoma State students through classroom instruction and other activities that promote student learning. Anyone in the SSU community may nominate an instructor, but there are no self-nominations allowed. Any member of the instructional, library or student affairs faculty, any administrator, or staff member who teaches credit-bearing courses may be nominated. To be eligible, the nominee must have taught at SSU for at least four semesters during the previous five academic years, one of those semesters being in the academic year in which the nomination occurs. Letters of nomination may be sent to the Academic Senate office, Stevenson 1071. More information about the awards is available at http://www.sonoma.edu/Senate/EXCELTEACH.html.
Nominations close on Mar. 10.
The party's over
Richard Heinberg, author of "The Party's Over: Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies," will give a presentation on Thursday, Feb. 23 in Stevenson 1002.
For more information, contact Michael Cohen from the Biology Department at 664-3413
Project Censored celebrates 30 years
Project Censored will celebrate its 30-year anniversary on Mar. 11 at the Rohnert Park Community Center, 5402 Snyder Lane. The event will include a silent auction, a no-host bar, music and dinner. Morgan Spurlock, producer/director of the film Super Size Me, will be the keynote speaker. Reservations must be made by Feb. 28. Go to www.projectcensored.org for more details.