Campus News

Humboldt State University students will devote half their Cesar Chavez holiday to help refurbish the site of the former Jefferson Elementary School in Eureka.

Humboldt State University Cycling Club made history this weekend with its first men’s and women’s time trial teams to compete in collegiate racing.

HSU Associated Students (A.S.) is encouraging as many candidates as possible to run for key campus government offices in the elections slated for April 17-19.

Supporters of Native American education will gather at Humboldt State University March 15 through 17 for a series of workshops and cultural activities celebrating the success of American Indian education over the last 35 years.

What if gravity doesn’t behave exactly the way we think it does? And if we proved it doesn’t—what then?

Students with Humboldt State’s Green Campus program are ready to give out grades if faculty and staff are willing to take the test. Office sustainability evaluations are now available through the Green Workplace Assessment Certification Program.

A key player in developing common core state standards for U.S. mathematics will discuss the benchmarks in a lecture at Humboldt State University on Tuesday, Mar. 20, at 7:30 p.m.

Can a husband be unfaithful with his first wife’s ghost? Is it “astral bigamy” as his second wife suggests? These and other odd questions fly around in Noel Coward’s Blithe Spirit—along with furniture and airborne household objects--in this haunting supernatural couples comedy. It opens Feb. 29 for one weekend at HSU.

On Saturday and Sunday, Mar. 3 and 4, the Humboldt Symphony performs Variations on a Theme by Paganini for Piano and Orchestra, featuring the winner of this year’s student piano concerto competition, Joseph Welnick.

Make It All True, featuring an array of paintings and mixed media works by Bay Area artist Kelly Allen will run at Humboldt State University's First Street Gallery through Sunday, Mar. 4.

Play/House, a collaboration of works by Claire Joyce and Garth Johnson, is in its final week. The exhibit, featuring a mixture of ceramics, glitter paintings, works on paper and mixed media installations, closes this Sunday, Mar. 4.

Steve Smith, dean of the College of Natural Resources and Sciences, has announced the appointment of Dr. Frederick (Rick) Zechman to be the college’s associate dean, effective July 1.

Humboldt State University’s Native American Arts Gallery highlights the beauty and art of local tribe’s utilitarian objects in its most recent exhibit, I Am These People: Native Design Over Time. The exhibit features works by local Native American artists selected from many private collections and the collections of United Indian Health Services, the Seventh Generation Fund for Indian Development, Clarke Historical Museum and Humboldt State University Library-Humboldt Room. The exhibit runs Mar. 8 through May 5, opening with a reception on Thursday, Mar. 8 from 4:30-6:30 p.m. The public is invited to attend.

Representatives from HSU's Associated Students will be collecting "bucks" from students on Monday, Feb. 27 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. on the U.C. Quad. But they're not looking for "bucks" bearing George Washington's image—instead the student government representatives are raising awareness of California's recent budget cuts to higher education.

Humboldt State University’s 18th annual Social Justice Summit on Mar. 2 and 3 will center on undocumented immigrant youth. The theme is “Education, not Deportation.”

The Humboldt Energy Independence Fund has awarded $33,000 to a student project that will retrofit the Fulkerson Recital Hall stage with light emitting diodes, or LEDs.

The HSU Library Special Collections & Archives team, comprising Librarian, Joan Berman and Archivist, Edie Butler, will be featured on KIEM-TV News Channel 3 in a report by Dana Griffin.

HSU Journalism Professor Marcy Burstiner’s 2009 textbook on investigative reporting will be translated into two Afghan languages.

The HSU Symphonic Band previews a suite by a contemporary Chinese composer who will soon visit Humboldt, and the Jazz Orchestra showcases the work of jazz legend Gil Evans in a joint concert on Saturday, Feb. 25 in Fulkerson Recital Hall.

Student Access Galleries presents three new student exhibitions in three galleries. All shows will be exhibiting from Feb. 12, 2012 until Mar. 17, 2012 on the HSU campus.

The County of Humboldt’s Economic Development Division wants to engage Humboldt State University staff and faculty in updating its Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy.

Pacific Gas and Electric has presented an incentive check for $15,577 to Humboldt State University for energy savings derived from the campus’s new College Creek Apartment Complex.

The initial six-month report of Humboldt State’s Institute for Student Success cites extensive gains by faculty and staff who adopt new models of learning and support in and out of the classroom.

The Humboldt State University Library has opened the collection of HSU emeritus professor and former Arcata City Councilman Rudolf Becking. It is an extensive archive that encompasses his research on behalf of the Arcata Community Forest and the Arcata Marsh and Wildlife Sanctuary.

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.