Campus News

Arcata - A dominant Humboldt State University team has won the National Wildlife Quiz Bowl for the sixth time in eight years, trouncing its four top competitors among 18 teams from such eminent schools as Purdue, Virginia Tech, the University of Wisconsin and Texas A&M.

Arcata – Construction is slated to start early this year on a $2.9 million home for Humboldt State University’s Schatz Energy Research Center (SERC), for three decades a pioneer in clean air technologies like hydrogen power.

Arcata – Humboldt State University junior Molly Louise McNulty, a native of McKinleyville, will attend the January 20, 2009 Inauguration of President-elect Barack Obama and Vice President-elect Joe Biden at the invitation of the University Presidential Inaugural Conference, Washington, D.C.

Humboldt State University’s long-standing dedication to environmental responsibility continues with the launch of "a new Web site":http://www.humboldt.edu/green/ highlighting the University’s commitment to sustainability.

The HSU Service Learning Center and Rotary District 5130 are leading local efforts in December's National Marrow Donor Recruitment Campaign.

OK, if you had to name the top botanist of all-time who would you pick? The obvious choice, of course, would be the sly and debonair Leonhart Fuchs, but, then again, Otto Brunfels’s observations were pretty groundbreaking too. And, then there’s Hieronymus Bock …

Arcata - For the seventh straight year, Humboldt State University will promote programs that equip students for careers in a globalized world through International Education Week, a joint initiative of the U.S. Departments of State and Education.

Arcata – Continuing its extensive modernization projects, Humboldt State University began work on Nov. 10 on new student housing to accommodate record enrollments and provide the campus with a state-of-the-art community center and retail space.

Arcata - Humboldt State University’s Bookstore hosts writer Tim Davidson, “College Football’s Oldest Rookie,” at the store’s second floor University Center location on Friday, Nov. 7, from 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.

Arcata – Humboldt State University’s new Office of Veterans Enrollment and Transition Services (V.E.T.S.) will host a full roster of events to mark Veterans Day Week.

Arcata—Dr. Alistair McCrone, after serving as Humboldt State's president for some 28 years, is leading a new era of fund raising at Humboldt State University with an exciting new gift.

Margaret Gainer, 57, director of Humboldt State's Office for Economic and Community Development (OECD), has been appointed to Califoria's Economic Strategy Panel.

Arcata - Combating poverty’s blight on Redwood Coast health care requires comprehensive child coverage and ensuring that youngsters have medical and dental ‘homes,’ according to a survey by the California Center for Rural Policy (CCRP) at Humboldt State University.

The Humboldt State University community was shocked and saddened following the suicide of a student sometime late Sunday evening or early Monday morning.

Arcata - Marine scientists at Humboldt State and their colleagues at U.C. Davis have uncovered a large eddy southwest of Cape Mendocino that they suspect interferes with the flow of nutrients and marine species to waters farther south.

Arcata – Leading authorities on Redwood Coast economics and finance will examine the global credit crisis and looming recession at a Humboldt State University roundtable on Wednesday, Oct. 29, from 3:00 to 5:00 p.m. in Goodwin Forum, Nelson Hall East.

Arcata – Humboldt State University has established two solar energy initiatives as part of a joint program with "California State University":http://www.calstate.edu/ and the "California Department of General Services":http://www.dgs.ca.gov/default.htm to generate eight megawatts of solar photovoltaic power and reduce the human carbon footprint.

The same waves locals ride to shore at well-known surf spots like Houda Point may also hold the answer to rising energy costs.

Humboldt State’s Information Technology Services (ITS) is preparing to update email and calendaring systems, adding new functionality and additional features.

"It's a beautiful thing to get up in front of hundreds and to get people laughing and thinking," said author and educator Richard Van Camp, who will deliver the keynote address at the "Fall English Studies Conference Uniting Educators", held Friday and Saturday, Oct. 24 and 25, in Humboldt State's Founders Hall.

Arcata - "KHSU/KHSR-FM"::http://www.khsu.org/ will broadcast exclusive interviews during its Fall 2008 membership drive with Dr. Helen Caldicott, a specialist in the medical hazards of the nuclear age, and Helen Thomas, First Lady of the White House Press Corps.

Arcata - Dr. L. Scott Quackenbush, executive director of the Dauphin Island Sea Lab, Dauphin Island, Alabama, and Humboldt State University’s Associate Dean of Marine Science and Director of the Telonicher Marine Laboratory in Trinidad from 2005 to 2008, died Oct. 12 at his home in Mobile, Ala., after a brief illness. He was 56 and reportedly succumbed to cancer.

Arcata – When word spread at Humboldt State University that the Coast Guard had towed a stranded Chinese junk into Humboldt Bay Oct. 4, many members of the campus community perked up their ears.

Arcata — KRFH-AM and _The Lumberjack_, Humboldt State's student-run media outlets, are hosting a forum on Monday, Oct. 13, 6-8 p.m., in the University Center's Banquet Room with the six candidates vying for Arcata's three city council seats. The event is an opportunity for students to share their concerns with the future of city government.

The Oct. 2 test of Humboldt State University’s Emergency Alert-Information System generated 4,676 text messages, dwarfing the 752 transmitted during the test last spring.