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- Week of: Apr 29, 2012
- Student Question About Mushroom’s Maple Syrup Odor Takes 27 Years to Answer »
When it comes to long-running student questions, Darvin DeShazer’s (’72, Biology, ’86, Education) might take the cake.
- Week of: Apr 15, 2012
- Students Digitize Century-Old Language Notebooks »
At Humboldt State University’s Cultural Resources Facility, student Brandy Hurtado is helping to preserve the contents of five student notebooks.
- Week of: Mar 11, 2012
- Schatz Engineers Develop Solar-Powered Clean Water Device »
Engineers at Humboldt State’s Schatz Energy Research Center (SERC) are using their expertise in sustainable technology to increase clean water access in the developing world.
- Week of: Mar 04, 2012
- Students Help Target University Priorities »
Sometimes one plus one is more than two. HSU is committed to improving campus communications. It’s also is committed to developing undergraduate research. Mix the two together and the result is an intriguing, synergistic project.
- Week of: Feb 26, 2012
- On the Hunt for New Theories of Gravity »
What if gravity doesn’t behave exactly the way we think it does? And if we proved it doesn’t—what then?
- Week of: Feb 05, 2012
- Prof: Tiny Primates Communicate in Ultrasonic Channel »
Specialized audio research by Humboldt State anthropology lecturer and alumna Marissa Ramsier (’03) indicates that one of the world’s smallest primates probably has an ultrasound warning system within its social groups.
- Researcher Looks to Soccer for Clues to Concussions »
Beth Larson, lecturer and Coordinator for Humboldt State’s North Coast Concussion Program, is used to taking challenges head-on. But her research, which was recently discussed in the New York Times’ health blog, suggests that soccer players could benefit from cutting back on heading the ball.
- Week of: Jan 22, 2012
- Professor Publishes 10-year-old’s New Molecule » For Clara Lazen, 10, a classroom assignment turned into a scientific finding. As Chemistry Professor Robert Zoellner confirmed, the fifth-grader's curiosity led to a new molecule, and her first mention in a scientific journal.
- Week of: Jan 08, 2012
- Kinesiology Lecturer Awarded for Research on Childhood Obesity »
Sheila Kelly grew up in a family that encouraged sports over video games and outdoor activities over television. As a child, she played soccer, basketball and softball, and as an adult, she worked as a group exercise instructor and personal trainer while pursuing her Ph.D. in Kinesiology at Michigan State University.
- Week of: Oct 16, 2011
- Do Personal Locator Beacons Encourage Bad Decisions? Grad Student Investigates »
Since hitting the market in 2003, personal locator beacons have saved hundreds of people from life threatening wilderness situations. The satellite-linked emergency devices alert search and rescue teams to the precise location of a person in danger and can often mean the difference between life and death.
- Week of: Oct 09, 2011
- Renovations Make Marine Lab More User-Friendly »
Humboldt State’s Telonicher Marine Lab in Trinidad is wrapping up a year and a half long $350,000 renovation of its wet lab and public display area funded by alumni, grants and private donations.
- Week of: Oct 02, 2011
- Campus Concussion Research Asks Subjects to Walk the Line »
At HSU, new concussion research is asking people to take a page out of Johnny Cash’s songbook and “walk the line.” While Cash kept a close eye on his heart, students working with the North Coast Concussion Program at Humboldt State are keeping a close eye on the head, specifically head injuries.
- Week of: Sep 25, 2011
- HSU Outlines Food Donation Strategy to Curb Waste »
The California Center for Rural Policy at Humboldt State University has issued a series of policy options to encourage food donations, pare considerable local waste and stem the region’s food insecurity.
- Week of: Sep 11, 2011
- Fieldwork Scholarship Sends Anthropology Major on Belize Adventure »
HSU Anthropology and Sociology major, Leslie Perkins, was awarded the Jane C. Waldbaum Archaeological Field School Scholarship. The scholarship is awarded to only seven students in the United States and Canada and includes $1,000 to pay for their first fieldwork experience.
- New Scanning Electron Microscope First for Humboldt, North Coast »
The College of Natural Resources and Sciences has received a half a million dollar grant to purchase an environmental scanning electron microscope, a cutting-edge tool that will boost faculty-led research in the earth, physical and biological sciences.
- HSU Students Put Einstein Theory to Toughest Test Yet »
A two-year, $117,000 National Science Foundation grant will enable Humboldt State University physics students to conduct the most rigorous test worldwide of Einstein’s famous theory of relativity in the campus’s Gravitational Research Laboratory.
- Week of: Aug 28, 2011
- Campus Takes Lead in Statewide Tsunami-Probability Research »
Imagine a towering ocean wave 60 feet high, racing with a tsunami’s obliterative force against the mouth of Redwood Creek in northern California.
- Week of: Aug 21, 2011
- Wayward Whale Offers Students Unique Access Before Her Death »
A gray whale that offered students a rare educational opportunity when it wandered into the Klamath River for nearly eight weeks this summer died this month after beaching itself on a sandbar.
- Study Demonstrates Strong Eco-Literacy at HSU »
When it comes to environmental literacy, Humboldt State students are ahead of the curve according to a spring 2011 study conducted by HSU students.
- Week of: Aug 14, 2011
- Faculty, Students Sift Clues to Local Business Success »
The first in a series of planned annual business surveys conducted by Humboldt State University and funded by the Humboldt County Workforce Investment Board suggests that membership in a business networking group contributes to local success.
- Geography Dept. Installs Campus Weather Station »
Humboldt State University’s Department of Geography has installed a full-scale weather station atop Van Matre Hall to spur engaged learning in physical geography.
- Week of: Aug 07, 2011
- Faculty Spotlighted in National Education Journal »
Faculty members Nikola Hobbel and Rosemary Sherriff appear in an article about mentoring new colleagues in the July 29 Chronicle of Higher Education’s fourth annual special issue on the academic workplace.
- Week of: Jun 12, 2011
- Undergrad Trio Interns at Famed Woods Hole Research Center »
Three Humboldt State University science students are summer interns in the Woods Hole Partnership Education Program at the seaside village of Woods Hole in Falmouth, Cape Cod, MA.
- New Report Urges Expanded Telemedicine for Rural Elderly »
The Internet and telemedicine are part of the answer to the disproportionate health risks suffered by California’s rural elderly from distance, isolation and lack of clinical services, according to a joint report by Humboldt State University’s California Center for Rural Policy (CCRP) and the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research.
- Week of: May 15, 2011
- HSU, Green Diamond Join in Milestone Biomass Research »
Humboldt State University, Green Diamond Resource Company, Korbel, CA, and 10 other partners are teamed under a $5.3 million federal research and
development grant to evaluate forest biomass-timber slash and other harvesting waste-as an energy-efficient source of feedstock to produce biofuels and other bio-products.
