2025 SSU Research, Scholarship & Creativity Symposium

2025 SSU Research, Scholarship & Creativity Symposium Students

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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 [email protected].

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

Transportation Safety Around the Sonoma State Campus

Geography, Environment & Planning
College of Humanities, Social Sciences, and the Arts
Bridgette Neeley, Zoe Boslet, Copper Morse

Shock and Oww: Investigating E-Bike Injuries - Who's injured, what's hurt, and how it happens

Geography, Environment & Planning
College of Humanities, Social Sciences, and the Arts
Alex Hickey, Spencer Snook

A look at the demographic and land use patterns of Petaluma

Geography, Environment & Planning
College of Humanities, Social Sciences, and the Arts
Andres Serrano, Casey Hemphill, Julian Havis

Youth Diversion Programs

Criminology & Criminal Justice Studies
College of Humanities, Social Sciences, and the Arts
Vanessa J. Sanchez

AI-Enhanced Scams: The New Frontier of Elder Exploitation

Criminology & Criminal Justice Studies
College of Humanities, Social Sciences, and the Arts
Nayeli Nuno-Ledezma

Community-Oriented Policing: An Assessment of How Things are Going in Sonoma County

Criminology & Criminal Justice Studies
College of Humanities, Social Sciences, and the Arts
Elena O'Kane, Alejandro Ramirez Diaz, Cydnee Hoglund, Diego Robledo

Diagnosis, Education, and Productivity: Medicalized Life and Death at the Sonoma Developmental Center (1914-1920)

Anthropology
College of Humanities, Social Sciences, and the Arts
Emily Nightingale, Ursula Senghas-Poles, Fernando Pimentel, Sveva Dal Pont, Ryan Reynolds, Marina Scanagatta

Archival Anthropology and Institutional Life in Early 20th Century California; A Case Study of the California Home for the Feeble-Minded (1900–1920)

Anthropology
College of Humanities, Social Sciences, and the Arts
Fernando Pimentel

Using Machine Learning to Address the Second Chance Gap

Criminology & Criminal Justice Studies
College of Humanities, Social Sciences, and the Arts
Jeff Huang, Nicholas Chaudoir, Vanessa Sanchez, Reeti Joshi, Shelby Anderson, Gabriel Aviles

The Spanish Language in California: Roots, Resilience, Evolution, and its Impact on Identity and Bilingualism

Modern Languages & Literatures
College of Education, Counseling, and Ethnic Studies
Pedrina Garcia de Phillips