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- Week of: Mar 27, 2011
- Student Research Informs City’s Position on Plastic Bags »
Spreadsheets, research groups and a large portion of the class grade were not the only outcomes of the second research project in Lonny Grafman’s ENGR 308 class.
- Week of: Mar 13, 2011
- New Partnerships Have Schatz Lab Exploring New Biomass Energy »
As the Schatz Energy Research Center settles into its new building, researchers have welcomed a new piece of equipment as well. The machine–a torrefier–is on loan from Renewable Fuel Technologies (RFT), a San Mateo, Calif., start-up business, and is used to transform biomass into renewable energy. RFT and the center are expected to have the machine up and running in late March.
- Week of: Feb 27, 2011
- Professor Uncovers Prehistoric Evidence of Coastal Peoples »
Primitive stone tools found on California coastal islands are evidence of seafaring and island colonization 12,000 years ago by Paleoindian peoples, according to a new report in Science magazine co-authored by Humboldt State University Professor of Anthropology Todd Braje.
- Week of: Feb 13, 2011
- Students Boost Area Marine Research »
Humboldt State University undergraduates are busy investigating local water quality, marine sedimentation and ocean nutrients under a CSU pilot project that harnesses federal work/study funds. Student research is under way at multiple locations, including Humboldt Bay, the Eel River and off Trinidad Head.
- Week of: Jan 09, 2011
- Student’s Research Gives Clues to Famed Pirate’s Identity »
There is an old pirate legend about a forgotten place on the Trinity River named Sailor’s Bar. The place has all but disappeared in the riverside undergrowth, but historical memory of the saga has been newly revived—and revised—by a Humboldt State University undergraduate.
- Week of: Nov 28, 2010
- Report: Child Care Gap Leaves Employers in Lurch »
Budget cuts, low salaries and staff reductions are depriving Humboldt County families of needed child care, leaving preschoolers short-changed and making it harder for employers to fill jobs, according to a new analysis by Humboldt State University’s California Center for Rural Policy. The report was commissioned by the Local Child Care Planning Council.
- Week of: Oct 31, 2010
- Redwood Region’s Death Rate Is State’s Highest »
Death rates from all causes in the four-county redwood region were the highest in the state, 2000-2008, and Humboldt County’s was the highest of all, according to key trend data brought together for the first time by the California Center for Rural Policy at Humboldt State University.
- Bear-Proof? Student Tests Wilderness Food Containers »
In the old “Yogi Bear” cartoons, you had to be “smarter than the average bear” to steal a camper’s food. But Kate McCurdy (M.S. NRPI, ’06), found that improperly stored food can attract even the average bear to a backpacker’s campsite.
- Week of: Oct 17, 2010
- HSU Exchange Student’s Probe of Tick-Borne Diseases Nets Prestigious Fellowship »
Humboldt State University student Du Cheng has received the American Society for Microbiology Undergraduate Research Fellowship. The prestigious program recognizes highly competitive students who intend to pursue Ph.D. or MD/Ph.D. degrees.
- Week of: Oct 10, 2010
- HSU Students Win Awards at SACNAS Conference »
HSU undergraduate students won several awards for best poster at the SACNAS conference (Society for the Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science) held on September 30 to October 3 in Anaheim, Calif.
- Week of: Sep 26, 2010
- HSU Top Scholar Urges Interdisciplinary Agriculture »
Humboldt State Wildlife Management Professor Matthew Johnson, HSU’s 2009/2010 Scholar of the Year, will deliver a free public lecture, “Farms & Feathers: Linking Bird Conservation, Agriculture, and Education,” on Wed., Oct. 27, at 5 p.m. in Van Duzer Theater. An informal reception will follow in the theater lobby.
- Week of: Sep 19, 2010
- Study: At-Risk Elderly Need Improved ‘Walkability’ »
The North Coast’s growing senior population is consistently more prone to falls than the rest of California’s aging, and an array of preventive measures could reduce falls by 20-30 percent, according to findings of Humboldt State University’s California Center for Rural Policy.
- Week of: Sep 05, 2010
- Food Gaps Hit Humboldt Children Hardest »
Portions of Humboldt County need more food stores, expanded transportation and greater spending power to supply threatened families and children with adequate food and healthy choices, according to the California Center for Rural Policy at Humboldt State University.
- Week of: Aug 01, 2010
- Rehabbed and Released, Do Oiled Seabirds Survive? »
When activated to respond to a major oil spill, the Marine Wildlife Care Center at Humboldt State University becomes a birdbath.
- Week of: Jul 25, 2010
- HSU Professor Wins Online Instruction Prize »
Humboldt State University Department of Politics professor Noah Zerbe has won $2,500 in state-of-the-art instructional technology to continue and expand his use of electronic and online learning in the classroom.
- Week of: Jun 27, 2010
- Rolland named female scholar-athlete of the year »
Humboldt State track and field athlete Megan Rolland is California Collegiate Athletic Association (CCAA) Female Scholar-Athlete of the Year.
- Week of: May 23, 2010
- HSU Students Generate $2K-Plus in Food Drive »
Students from Humboldt State University’s Service Learning Center organized a collaborative, regional food drive this spring that raised more than $2,000 for Food for People, the Eureka food bank.
- Week of: May 16, 2010
- Fulbright-Hays Grant Sends Professors and Students to China »
Humboldt State history professor Robert Cliver will accompany a group of local students and teachers on a four-week academic excursion to China this summer. The trip was made possible by a Fulbright-Hays Group Projects grant of nearly $73,000, funded by the U.S. Department of Education. The participants will experience first-hand the everyday life of modern China, as well as study its history and language.
- Week of: May 09, 2010
- Biological Sciences Announces 2010-2011 Scholarship Recipients »
The Department of Biological Sciences has announced the recipients of the Department’s numerous awards and scholarships.
- HSU Mathematics Department Announces Winners of 26th Annual Mu Alpha Theta Contest »
This spring the Mu Alpha Theta (Mathematics) Contest continued with its format that included a section of shorter problems along with a section of more challenging problems. Students worked on the examination for three hours on a Saturday morning, April 17th. As in the past there are two categories distinguishing more advanced (B category) mathematics students who have completed more than one upper division mathematics course from beginning (A Category) mathematics students who have not completed more than one upper division mathematics course. The contest was organized and judged this year by Professors Jeff Haag and Martin Flashman of the HSU Mathematics Department.
- HSU Professor Among Scientists to Locate Lost Moon Reflector »
Nearly 40 years since it was last spotted on the surface of the Moon, a team of scientists, including C.D. Hoyle, of the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Humboldt State University, located Soviet reflector Lunokhod 1.
- Week of: May 02, 2010
- HSU Scientists Pinpoint Acute Forest Fire Threat »
Humboldt State University researchers have confirmed that the prolonged invasion of coastal woodlands by sudden oak death poses an acute new forest fire threat to large portions of southern Humboldt, and Marin and Sonoma Counties.
