2008 Woodie Awards
SSU's Amazing Graduate Programs
Maggie Purser
Issue date: 3/11/08 Section: Editorial
This year's annual Graduate Student Research Showcase will take place Tuesday, March 18. From 4 to 7 p.m. in the Cooperage, SSU master's degree candidates and recent MA degree recipients will present papers and poster presentations describing their research projects. President Armiñana will be giving the welcoming remarks. The showcase is sponsored every year by the Graduate Studies Subcommittee and the Division of Academic Affairs. The large exhibit hall in the Cooperage will be filled with student poster and multimedia presentations, and great food. Students giving formal papers will take up the two adjacent presentation rooms.
The showcase was begun three years ago to help publicize SSU's truly fantastic range of graduate programs, and to give the campus community the chance to learn more about graduate programs here. The showcase gives our MA students experience in presenting research in scholarly conference format, and provides a forum in which newer grad students can see what kind of work is required of master's degree candidates. It is also a great opportunity to show undergraduate students what kinds of programs are available to them after they complete their bachelor's degrees.
But the showcase's main purpose is to celebrate the tremendous accomplishments and diverse research projects of our over 700 graduate students enrolled in 22 separate programs across 16 different departments. You say you didn't know there even WERE that many grad programs at Sonoma State? Well, it's true: we have programs in Biology, Business Administration, Counseling, Computer and Engineering Science, Cultural Resources Management, Education, English, History, Interdisciplinary Studies, Kinesiology, Nursing, Public Administration, and Psychology. The Hutchins School has a new interdisciplinary MA program called "Action for a Viable Future".
So come find out about the graduate programs right here in your neighborhood. Hear about the latest research in fields from economics to art therapy, literature to kinesiology. SSU grad students are exploring the critical role of the informal economy from black marketing to microlending, using mind-body treatments to help combat post-traumatic stress disorder, revealing the hidden Queen Elizabeth in Spencer's Faerie Queen, fostering academic achievement and positive ethnic identity development in local high school students, tailoring innovative yoga practices and ergonomics for computer users, helping school counselors support the siblings of children with autism, and examining the interplay of fate and free will in the writings of J.R.R. Tolkien.
The showcase was begun three years ago to help publicize SSU's truly fantastic range of graduate programs, and to give the campus community the chance to learn more about graduate programs here. The showcase gives our MA students experience in presenting research in scholarly conference format, and provides a forum in which newer grad students can see what kind of work is required of master's degree candidates. It is also a great opportunity to show undergraduate students what kinds of programs are available to them after they complete their bachelor's degrees.
But the showcase's main purpose is to celebrate the tremendous accomplishments and diverse research projects of our over 700 graduate students enrolled in 22 separate programs across 16 different departments. You say you didn't know there even WERE that many grad programs at Sonoma State? Well, it's true: we have programs in Biology, Business Administration, Counseling, Computer and Engineering Science, Cultural Resources Management, Education, English, History, Interdisciplinary Studies, Kinesiology, Nursing, Public Administration, and Psychology. The Hutchins School has a new interdisciplinary MA program called "Action for a Viable Future".
So come find out about the graduate programs right here in your neighborhood. Hear about the latest research in fields from economics to art therapy, literature to kinesiology. SSU grad students are exploring the critical role of the informal economy from black marketing to microlending, using mind-body treatments to help combat post-traumatic stress disorder, revealing the hidden Queen Elizabeth in Spencer's Faerie Queen, fostering academic achievement and positive ethnic identity development in local high school students, tailoring innovative yoga practices and ergonomics for computer users, helping school counselors support the siblings of children with autism, and examining the interplay of fate and free will in the writings of J.R.R. Tolkien.