Alumni News Archive

Learn about the amazing things Humboldt State grads are accomplishing. For the latest alumni news and upcoming events, visit the Alumni Association web site.

Week of: Oct 19, 2008
HSU Opens New Kinesiology and Athletics Building »

The new $44 million Kinesiology and Athletics Building, designed by Yost Grube Hall Architecture, ushers in a new era in education and athletic competition for Humboldt State students, faculty, staff and alumni. The campus and the community will benefit from top-notch educational spaces, labs, health programs and a spacious, modern arena. Kiewit Building Group constructed the 91,598 square-foot facility using 325 tons of structural steel, 400 tons of rebar and 4,800 yards of concrete.

Alums Share Their Hybrid Visions »

The dim, stuffy room was packed with excited students. Strains of conversations continued from the earlier Renewable Energy Student Union meeting floated through the air. These conversations were not your typical engineering talk; they were revolutionary engineering talk.

Week of: Oct 12, 2008
Alum Has The Cure For Math Phobia »

For some high school students, nothing is quite as terrifying as cracking open an algebra book to find a dizzying array of numbers, letters and peculiar Greek symbols peering back at them.

Week of: Sep 21, 2008
Life And Light » For Humboldt State photography Professor Tom Knight (’50, ’54), light was everything. Whether it was illuminating the crescent outline of a subject’s face or highlighting the opalescent luster of a common washbasin, Knight made finding the right light at the right moment his life’s passion.
Week of: Aug 31, 2008
Alumni (Ad)Venturers Boost Business & Campus » Christy Laird (’77), entrepreneur of Rose Court Cottage and Arcata Stay, “The Lodging Network of Exceptional Accommodations," describes her alumni colleagues this way: “Entrepreneurial people with a multitude of different skills who share the HSU connection and a love affair with Arcata.”
Week of: Aug 10, 2008
Cómo se dice “football” en Español? » Fútbol is wildly popular in Spain. You know, fútbol, that game with a soccer ball the entire world plays without cease, working itself into a universal frenzy every four years over crowning the sport’s global champion. Football, on the other hand, is not quite as popular in Spain. You know, football, that game where big, strong guys ram into each other and toss around an oblong ball on a 100-yard field.
Globe Trekking Alumna Looks Back on Three Decades of Travels » For Carol Stieger ('58) dreams of international travel were in the works from the day she started as a teacher in Sacramento.
Week of: Apr 20, 2008
Beyond the Taco-Truck Paradigm » Kalindi Rogers and Erin Slattery have nothing personal against burritos. Like countless generations of students before them, the two have sampled more than their fair share of taco truck offerings.
Week of: Mar 30, 2008
HSU Names 2008 Distinguished Alumni » Arcata - The Humboldt State University Alumni Association will celebrate the accomplishments of its 2008 Distinguished Alumni with a gala dinner on Friday, April 18, at 5:30 p.m. in the Kate Buchanan Room at University Center.
The Earth is His Classroom » Geology alum Dave Bazard’s first love is teaching.

To begin with, “there was this very dynamic earth science teacher I had in middle school.”

Dave Bazard (’82) was smitten with geology right then and there, scarcely a teenager.
Week of: Feb 17, 2008
From Humboldt to Hollywood » He’s on a first name basis with John Travolta, he’s acted alongside Mel Gibson, and Bono (you know, the lead singer of U2) says he smells like rain.
Week of: Jan 27, 2008
HSU Alum Joins Scripps Unit » Arcata – Humboldt State alumnus Bruce Appelgate (’85) has been named associate director of Ship Operations and Marine Technical Support at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego.
Week of: Nov 18, 2007
Fueling Humboldt’s Economy » Funny, it doesn’t look like something that’s going to save the world, this viscous, green goop. And yet, if you spend just two minutes talking to Brandon Hemenway and Patrick Wiley, the chief officers of AlgaRhythms, you’ll walk away believing that their brand of slime might do just that.
Week of: Nov 04, 2007
HSU Welcomes Renowned Geneticist » When he graduated from Humboldt State in 1970, Peter Underhill never imagined that students around the world would one day study his life’s work. Thirty-seven years later, however, Underhill’s research on the Y chromosome has shed new light on the history of human evolution.

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