Arcata - Humboldt State University wildlife major Lindsey Payne believes all people should take up volunteer service at some point in their lives.
“You get to learn a lot about yourself, and you have fun doing it,” she says.
Earth Day is coming, but at HSU, one day is not enough. We’ve rounded up a variety of events the students at HSU have organized of this celebration. Earth Day goes back to the late ‘60s as a United Nations, and eventually a global environmental teach-in.
Got cable? Professor Greg Crawford gives a televised presentation on the Research Channel on April 27, 2008. The program will air four times that day: 1:00 a.m., 7:00 a.m., 1:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m. (Pacific time).
Students at Humboldt State University have the opportunity between now and April 25 to donate a portion of their meal points as part of a regional food drive organized by the HSU Service Learning Center. Donated meal points will be used to purchase food from the school’s vendor, and these relief food supplies will be delivered directly to Food for People, the Food Bank for Humboldt County.
Dr. James Russell of the Department of Applied Technology holds in his hand a brick that looks like leftover supplies mashed together after art period, but it's more than that. It could be a great way to repurpose used styrofoam for building insulation.
Arcata – Humboldt State University’s annual expose of sexualized violence resumes April 12-18 with a series of campus rallies and activities comprising “Take Back the Night,” coordinated by the HSU Women’s Resource Center.
Arcata – Humboldt State University will recognize Dr. Carolyn Ward, Outstanding Professor for 2007-2008, at a formal dinner on Tuesday, April 29 at 7:00 p.m. in the Kate Buchanan Room, University Center.
Arcata – Reinforcing Humboldt State University’s historical commitment to low-income, college-bound youth, President Rollin Richmond has signed a nationwide “CollegeKeys Compact” to bolster access to financially distressed middle and high school students.
Arcata – A California think tank is offering a rare opportunity for Humboldt State students to enter a one-semester internship program with the U.S. House of Representatives, September-December 2008.
Arcata - Humboldt State University and College of the Redwoods have chosen as 2008 Book of the Year Parable of the Sower, a science fiction novel whose young heroine makes her way to Humboldt County to escape the dark and sinister world of a futuristic Los Angeles suburb.
Arcata - Humboldt State University Library inaugurated a Learning Commons Computer Laboratory March 27, unveiling 24 new personal computer workstations that are the first phase of a multi-pronged effort to foster independent research and provide more centralized student learning services.
Arcata – Humboldt State University celebrates indigenous cultures with a cavalcade of dance and song from four western states in a premier event at the West Gym on Friday and Saturday, April 11 and 12.
Kyle Spragens rotates a large antenna mounted atop his state pickup truck as he drives past farm fields in the Arcata Bottoms, where he is searching for Aleutian geese. A receiver in the truck beeps as the antenna picks up a signal from a radio-collared goose.
Humboldt State’s College of Professional Studies has flourished under the leadership of Dean Susan Higgins, who has readied her institution for the 21st century with a train of progressive initiatives.
Arcata - The campus community and political leaders rallied nearly 600 strong in a united front March 24 to dissuade the governor and state lawmakers from slashing almost $400 million from California State University next fiscal year, including a threatened $7.3 million cut to Humboldt State.
Arcata – Humboldt State University’s student-initiated Humboldt Energy Independence Fund (HEIF) Committee has granted $100,000 for two pilot projects: a photovoltaic system for the roof of the Old Music Building and new equipment to complete a Solar Radiation Monitoring Station (SoRMS).
For the staff behind the 41st annual Humboldt Film Festival, the numbers are adding up to something big: They've had 265 film submissions, have almost $4,000 worth of film stock to give away and they've got 4 nights to show off the best and brightest in animation, experimental, documentary and narrative film to Humboldt State audiences.
KHSU and the Humboldt Fish Action Council are sponsoring a unique Adopt-A-Salmon program in connection with the public radio station’s fund raising drive
April 5 -12.
Sustainability has long been on the mind of students, faculty and staff at Humboldt State. With every passing year it seems the campus adds another innovative program to its growing résumé of environmental initiatives.
“It brought me out of my shell.”
Humboldt State’s Paul Wells (’06) is speaking of the high school mentoring program that put him on the road to college.
Today he is a mentor himself.
HSU Associated Students encourages as many candidates as possible to run for key campus government offices in the elections slated for April 22, 23 and 24.
The University encourages freshmen and seniors to complete the web-based National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) they were emailed on February 26.
The streams and creeks of coastal Humboldt County come alive every winter with migrating salmon, which struggle upstream to reach spawning grounds. Having survived predators and several years in the Pacific, many of these salmon will die without completing their journey. The culprit: antiquated road culverts that block their passage.