Campus News

Humboldt State University will host its Fifteenth Annual Day of Caring on Saturday, Sept. 20.

Construction across campus took place throughout summer, when students leave for break and Facilities and Construction Management jump into action.

A significant expansion of the wireless network at Humboldt State University is enabling students to check email, download class assignments and conduct research from a greater number of locations on campus.

On Saturday, Sept. 20, the Fifteenth Annual Day of Caring will kick off at Humboldt State University’s Art Quad at 8 a.m. HSU volunteers will join volunteers from the community to take part in this inspiring day of service. Hands-on projects for Day of Caring include dune restoration, emergency food box preparation, community gardening, native plant habitat restoration, painting, and organizing at various community agencies.

Students in the dance studio can peer out a bank of expansive windows to a redwood forest; students, staff and faculty can swim laps in an airy, light-filled space; and local sports fans can yell themselves silly from their stadium-style seat in the expanded gymnasium.

Arcata - Local retiree Ken Hoard is gleeful when he says, “I was given a second chance on life.” About three years ago, he underwent triple bypass surgery at St. Joseph Hospital. “It turned out very successfully,” he says. He felt tremendous gratitude for the nurses and technicians. “I’m a real fan of nurses.”

Arcata - Humboldt State University welcomed new faculty and staff to the campus during Fall Convocation at the Van Duzer Theatre, Aug. 19.

Arcata – Humboldt State Vice President of Advancement Rob Gunsalus has named Patrick Cleary, President of Lost Coast Communications, interim general manager of the University’s radio station, KHSU-FM, with immediate effect.

Arcata - Humboldt State University and the Schatz Energy Research Center will conduct a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Thursday, Sept. 4, at 11:00 a.m. for the new Hydrogen Fueling Station that produces and dispenses clean hydrogen fuel for a hydrogen-powered Toyota Prius.

Although official head counts won't be in until September's campus-wide census, preliminary reports anticipate a record number of students will grace HSU's campus this fall.

Seth Powell walked for nearly two months along the Californian coast bearing only his backpack. His mission was to travel roughly 1,000 miles on foot to reach Humboldt State University in time for the first day of class. On July 26, nearly a month ahead of schedule, he arrived at his destination. "After 64 days I have made it to the town of Arcata, my new hood! My last day of walking was a long one, I clocked in 21 miles, walking from the farm in Loleta to the grassy lawn of Humboldt State University," writes Powell on his blog, http://mindfulroots.blogspot.com/.

Arcata - Humboldt State University is helping to meet the nationwide demand for thousands of natural resource professionals, including forestry experts, as baby boomers retire in swelling numbers at both the federal and state levels.

Associate Vice President Mike Reilly has accepted a position as Associate Director with the Council of Presidents in Washington state. His last day at Humboldt State will be Sept. 12.

Arcata – Humboldt State University will host formal ceremonies on Thursday, Aug. 28, to inaugurate its new Veterans Enrollment and Transition Services (V.E.T.S.) program, a major expansion of aid to veterans that has been assembled in partnership with leading veterans’ agencies in the region and statewide.

By the end of fall semester solar panels, signage, and student art will adorn Music Building A (the Old Music Building) thanks to the Humboldt Energy Independence Fund (HEIF), a student funded energy initiative.

Arcata - Humboldt State University is offering an array of 13 courses online for Fall 2008, including AIE 345, American Indians in Higher Education, taught by Suzanne Burcell, Director of American Indian Education and Associate Director of Indian Economic and Community Development.

Reporters and photographers are invited to a private presentation of the mobile earthquake simulator at the Humboldt County Fair on Friday, August 8, at 10:00 a.m., one hour before the exhibit opens to the public.

Arcata - Eureka’s Discovery Museum will host the public unveiling on Friday, Aug. 8 from noon to 2:00 p.m. of five new simple machine exhibits created by area teachers under the Design Your Future Teaching Institute, part of the North Coast Engineering Academies project housed at Humboldt State University.

Arcata – The Humboldt State University Police Department has received official notification from the Humboldt County Coroner’s Office that HSU senior Nghiep Tuan Huynh, 31, of Westminster died on July 30 at Mercy Medical Center in Redding, where he had been hospitalized since suffering unexplained injuries July 27.

Arcata – Native American youth are discovering their often-lost tribal languages and cultures using the very same global information network that sometimes seems to submerge their traditions in homogenized pop culture. They are also learning how to restore and preserve their heritage with key software programs.

Humboldt State University is named a “Best Western College” and a “College With A Conscience” in the Princeton Review’s recently released 2009 Best Colleges: Region by Region.

Arcata - Rob Gunsalus, Vice President of Advancement (external affairs and fundraising) at Humboldt State University, announced today that Elizabeth Hans McCrone, General Manager of KHSU-FM, has submitted her resignation to pursue other endeavors.

Arcata - Humboldt State University’s Office for Economic and Community Development (OECD) has launched a customized research initiative to make regional high growth companies more competitive in national and global markets.

Arcata - Humboldt State University has begun work on accessibility and safety upgrades in the vicinity of Harry Griffith Hall that will require closing B Street to through-traffic from Harpst Street to 17th Street for about eight weeks.

Arcata – The Humboldt State University Library has assembled an exhibit concerning documents from an historic lawsuit over land ownership on the Eureka Waterfront.