Awards

Through this cooperative agreement, the Northwest Information Center (NWIC) supports the fulfillment of the State Historic Preservation Officer (SHPO) obligations by 1) gathering, managing, and providing access to the statewide inventory of historical resources within the NWIC’s 18 county region; 2) providing guidance in the use and interpretation of historical resources information: and 3) providing broad public education in support of cultural heritage preservation including internships and volunteer opportunities here at Sonoma State University. 

SSU’s TRIO Academic Talent Search programs motivate, inform, and assist 1,500  low-income, first-generation college-bound students in Sonoma and Mendocino Counties to access and succeed in a college of their choice. Students from grades 7-12 engage in workshops, college visits, and advising. Seniors receive financial aid and college application assistance.  With a focus on community access to higher education and college readiness, ATS advances SSU’s achievement of retention and graduation goals for GI2025.

In support of SSU's commitment and goal to serve underrepresented and underserved student populations, TRIO SSS-Multilingual Achievers Program provides individualized academic and personal support to first-generation, low-income multilingual students and multilingual students with disabilities to support their success at SSU and beyond.   

BCAIP will bring together content area and bilingual authorization preservice teachers, their mentors, content method and language/literacy university educators, and families in solidarity to strengthen teacher preparation for emergent bilingual learning through coursework, field experience, culturally and linguistically sustaining mentorship, and a language and literacies learning lab that all integrate biliteracy with content area learning.

The Anthropological Studies Center (ASC) will conduct an archaeological resources study for the Sugarloaf Trail, Nevada County, California. Nevada City and Bear Yuba Land Trust propose constructing a pedestrian trail linking Nevada City with Sugarloaf Mountain. A portion of the trail crosses Caltrans right-of-way. Accordingly, the undertaking must adhere to federal regulations.

Terrestrial restoration has a long tradition of engaging the general public on issues relating to ecosystem decline, to the point where large swaths of the community can participate in restoration, e.g., Arbor Day planting millions of trees worldwide. To date, marine restoration, is primarily carried out through professional scientists and resource managers with very little involvement from the lay community.

This work combined with work along the northern California coast in Sonoma and Mendocino Counties will provide a scientific basis for evaluating the efficacy of large-scale purple urchin removal and kelp outplanting as a kelp restoration tool in the Northern California/Southern Oregon marine ecoregion, directly informing future management actions to protect this iconic underwater forests in the face of changing ocean conditions.

This grant will fund an extension of Tinker Academy, which is a free two-week STEM summer academy for middle-school students that is a collaboration among the Career Technical Education Foundation, the Sonoma State School of Science and Technology, and the SSU Library. Tinker Academy teaches STEM skills through maker activities, including coding, robotics, sewing, 3-D modeling, and crafting. Participants are provided free lunch and materials.

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This project will assess the effectiveness of forest health treatments for coastal California forests and identify agency characteristics that influence scaling to landscape levels. This work seeks to identify cost-benefit tradeoffs of competing forest health treatments, determine the threat posed by biologically-driven fuels accumulation, assess effectiveness of a set of contrasting forest treatments aimed at controlling fuels and mitigating disease impacts, and identify agency capacity to apply treatments at scale.