Campus News

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.

Arcata - "The paint was blowing off my roller!" Humboldt State studio art student Kate Hansen is talking about the winds that buffeted her as she painted the sweeping new mural on the north side of the Natural History Museum that depicts life-size prehistoric mammals and birds.

Seth Powell walks along Southern California’s coast bearing only his backpack. His mission is to travel roughly 1,000 miles on foot to reach Humboldt State University in time for the first day of classes, Aug. 25. Each day he walks 20 miles carrying his pack in the California summer heat. So far, Powell has only ridden public transportation and accepted rides a handful of times. As long as the car was already heading north, he says, but the bulk of the journey will be on foot.

Dr. Lori Dengler, Professor and Chair of Humboldt State University’s Department of Geology and an international authority on tsunami and earthquake hazards and mitigation, has been named 2008 Scholar of the Year.

Arcata - Four area students, all of them Native American, have won 2008 Gates Millennium Scholarships and all but one will attend Humboldt State University this fall.

Humboldt State University has taken delivery of a hydrogen-powered Toyota Prius that will use clean hydrogen fuel produced and dispensed at a new fueling station built by the campus's internationally recognized Schatz Energy Research Center.

As a concert pianist, she is a well-known performer on North Coast stages as well as in prestigious venues around the world, and on television, radio and recordings. As a teacher at Humboldt State, she has trained prize-winning keyboard artists. She has been an activist and advocate for music education. Now some of her North Coast friends have organized a celebration of Deborah Clasquin’s achievements and a benefit concert to help her defray medical costs as she continues treatments for cancer.

Arcata — For most creatures sporting a bright blue exterior, the promise of a mouthful of poison is enough to deter predators. For an unassuming Pacific tree frog that looks like the blue of a robin's egg, that coloration is the result of a genetic mutation and not a beacon of self defense.

Humboldt State University has requested formal approval from the CSU system to discontinue its German major, which for many years has struggled with low enrollment.