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2025 SSU Research, Scholarship & Creativity Symposium

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This event is an annual two-day, in-person event featuring the outstanding accomplishments of faculty and students across all disciplines. This is a great opportunity to showcase your research, scholarship, and creative activities to the campus and surrounding community. Students and faculty members display their projects on posters and other media in the Student Center Main Ballroom. There is also a section for registrants to give live lightning talks highlighting their work. 

  • Undergraduate Students – Monday, April 28, 2025 (3:30 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.)
  • Faculty and Graduate Students – Tuesday, April 29, 2025 (3:30 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.)

The 2026 Symposium date: TBD - Check back soon!

If you have any general questions, please contact the Office of Research & Sponsored Programs at orsp@sonoma.edu.

Scroll down or use the search box below to find project descriptions from all 2025 submissions.

Detection of Limb Inflammation in Giraffes using Thermography

Biology
College of Science, Technology, and Business
Katelin Nicaragua, Kate Fox

Early Embryonic Development in the Sea Urchin, Strongylocentrotus purpuratus

Biology
College of Science, Technology, and Business
Katelin Nicaragua, Sarah Maffei

Nesting Ecology of the Northwestern Pond Turtle (Actinemys marmorata) on a Managed Livestock Rangeland

Biology
College of Science, Technology, and Business
Katarina Rivinius, Melissa Rodriguez, Madison Stein, Nicholas Geist

Mechanisms of Oocyte Maturation and the Role of 1-MA with GVBD

Biology
College of Science, Technology, and Business
Joshua Oldt, Joshua Malak

Synthesized β-Carboline Organic Compound Effects on Danio rerio

Biology
College of Science, Technology, and Business
Jillian Gonzalez

Long-term Wildfire Response of the Southern Alligator Lizard (Elgaria multicarinata)

Biology
College of Science, Technology, and Business
Jenna Spain

Comparing different strategies to pre-process 3D point clouds of trees in diverse forests

Biology
College of Science, Technology, and Business
Francisco Elias

Optimizing a protocol for zebrafish (Danio rerio) husbandry, breeding and live-cell imaging microscopy

Biology
College of Science, Technology, and Business
Faviola Sanchez

Mechanisms of Chromosome Organization in Human Cells

Biology
College of Science, Technology, and Business
Elena Gruber, Anthony Hernandez