SSURI STUDENT APPLICATION   
 
We appreciate your interest in the SSURI program. If you have any questions, please email Soo-Yeon Yoon (yoons@sonoma.edu), Heather Smith (smithh@sonoma.edu) or Teresa Nguyen (teresa.nguyen@sonoma.edu), or Allison Ford (allison.ford@sonoma.edu). Thank you for taking the time and effort to complete this application.   
 
The College of Humanities, Social Sciences, and Arts includes general information about the program as well as information about the application process for students, but does not include the proposed Summer 2025 projects list.   
 
Summer 2025 Projects include: 
  • What do you really think? Sonoma County speaks out about Community Oriented Policing (Emily K. Asencio)
  • Advancing AI: Emerging Frauds and Scams Against Senior Citizens (Bryan Burton)
  • Secure and Ethical AI for Accessing Prison and Court Records to Earn Release of Unjustly Incarcerated People (Caitlin Henry)
  • To Sleep or Not to Sleep that is the question (Glenn S. Brassington)
  • When Will People Challenge Injustice? (Heather Smith)
  • Social Equity in Green Development? A Community-Based Social Analysis of the Santa Rosa Southeast Greenway (Zeke Baker)
  • Taming "the Bush" before Giving Birth: Body Hair Grooming and Internalized Beauty Standards (Kyla Walters)
  • Social Relationships among Immigrants in the Bay Area (Soo-Yeon Yoon)
  • Social Science of Conservation: Working Lands and the Human/Society Dichotomy (Allison Ford)
  • Transportation safety: A worsening crisis for pedestrians and cyclists (Kevin Fang)
  • Investigating Personalization on TikTok Algorithm (Willie Gin)
  • Fortitude - Photography (Sena Clara Creston)
  • EEG Investigations of Attention and Working Memory (Evan Lintz)  
  • The History of Slavery in Sonoma County (Amy Kittelstrom)
  • AI in Communication and Media Studies: Bridging Academic Learning and Career Readiness (Emily Acosta Lewis)
  • Research on the Sonoma Developmental Center cemetery (Alexis Boutin)
 
Please check out all 16 projects, and remember that faculty mentors are looking for interested students, not students from any particular major. 
 
Selection Criteria / Eligibility
Students who are second-year students (e.g., "rising juniors") with a GPA of at least 3.0 are encouraged to apply. Some projects might require specific prerequisite coursework, so please read the qualifications listed in each project description carefully. First-year (e.g., "rising sophomores") and third-year (e.g., "rising seniors") students with at least a 3.0 also can apply, but priority will be given to current second-year students. Please note that we cannot hire student research assistants who do not plan to enroll at SSU for Fall 2025.

SPRING 2025 PRIORITY DEADLINE: 11:59 pm, Sunday, April 13, 2025