News and Events

COMS Professor Dr. Elizabeth Burch has published the article “Fifty Years of Women’s Land at OWL Farm” in the March/April Issue of Lesbian Connection.

Communication and Media Studies senior Duncan Addicott has been selected to represent SSU at the California State University Student Research Competition (April 23-25 at San Jose State University).

The Center for Community News at the University of Vermont has named Gina Baleria, associate professor of communication & media, as one of 150 journalism leaders from colleges across the country who will be part of the organization’s 2026 class of Faculty Champions.

The Emmy-award-winning PBS documentary, Climate California, will be screened at the Rohnert Park Library on December 17, 2025.

Music is Rene Cassano’s passion and it was the foundation of his internship with Wine Country Radio in Santa Rosa.

Dr. Liz Burch helped celebrate International Education Week at SSU by speaking on a panel of Fulbright grant recipients. In 2006, Burch conducted her research on environmental journalism in Kingston, Jamaica.

For Mya Jones, a communications and media stud

For Communications Major Gavin Ochoa, learning what it takes to serve and protect has meant stepping directly into the world of campus law enforcement.

For Communications and Media Studies Major Rylan Valdepena, journalism isn’t just another class, it’s a cra