Campus News

As midterms approach, students might start thinking there isn’t a life outside of textbooks and laptops. Humboldt State’s Learning Center is there to help shoulder the load with expanded services including a 24-hours-a-day, seven-days-a-week online tutoring service.

For Rangeland Resource major Jasmine Westbrook, a love for the range has been with her since she was a child, raised on her parents Napa Valley sheep ranch. The recent recipient of the Paul J. Zinke Memorial Scholarship for students studying soils management, Westbrook is using the award to fund her senior project, which consists of comparing vitamin and mineral deficiencies in sheep to vitamin and mineral analysis in the vegetation and soil from pastures they graze in.

Humboldt State University’s Student Veterans Association will inaugurate its annual Veterans Day 5K Run/Walk on Friday, Nov. 11 to raise funds for the university’s Office of Veterans Enrollment and Transition Services (VETS). Participants will depart from Redwood Bowl at 11 a.m.

Award-winning Berkeley Mathematics Professor Kenneth Ribet will deliver the 58th Harry S. Kieval Lecture on Sunday evening, Oct. 16, at 7:30 p.m. in the Science B building, Room 135, sponsored by Humboldt State University’s Department of Mathematics.

Leaving the cynical city (and its cynical musicals) behind, two men from New York drift out of cell phone range into the Scottish highlands, where they discover an enchanted village that lives only for a day every 100 years, called Brigadoon. There they find new love and a different way to live. But can the magic last, and if it’s lost, can it be found again?

Humboldt State University will start groundwork Friday, Oct. 14 for the campus share of the 2011 fundraising drive of United Way of the Wine Country for the Humboldt/Del Norte region.

*HUMBOLDT ALUMNI*—Who They Are. Where They Are. And Where They're Going.

Area bookstores have taken delivery of "California Indian Languages" by Humboldt State University Anthropology Professor Victor Golla. The milestone volume is the first encyclopedic reference book of all indigenous languages known to have existed in California before 1850.

On Sept. 21, the silence in the Kate Buchannan Room on HSU's campus was burst by the powerful yet playful tenor saxophone of Donny McCaslin. He and his band, the Donny McCaslin Group, launched the Redwood Jazz Alliance’s sixth season, which runs through April 25, 2012.

It was a sunny Friday afternoon at HSU. Tunes from Led Zeppelin poured through speakers, sitting in second story windows, onto to B Street.

The California Center for Rural Policy at Humboldt State University has issued a series of policy options to encourage food donations, pare considerable local waste and stem the region’s food insecurity.

Humboldt State University has launched a partnership with Zipcar, Inc., billed as the world’s leading car-sharing network, to offer a car-sharing program on campus.

HSU’s School of Business is in the midst of an ambitious rebuilding effort designed to boost enrollment and respond to a frequently cited need for more business graduates in the regional economy.

Over the summer, Humboldt State University engineering students took their resources and knowledge and put it to the test in other countries.

Humboldt State will host its annual Homecoming & Family Weekend for students, alumni, family and friends Sept. 30 to Oct. 1.

Humboldt State University will test its campus-wide Emergency Alert System on Thursday, Sept. 29, from 10:45 to 11 a.m.

President Richmond will host a reception honoring promoted faculty on Friday, Oct. 7, 3-4 p.m., in Goodwin Forum, Nelson Hall East. The entire campus community is invited. Refreshments will be served and student musicians will entertain.

Humboldt State University will host an emergency preparedness class on Wednesday, Sept. 28, at 10 a.m. in Goodwin Forum, Nelson Hall East, in anticipation of the statewide Great California ShakeOut earthquake drill on Thursday, Oct. 20 at 10:20 a.m.

_The following was provided by the HSU Academic Senate_ Listed below are the results of the General Faculty election held online September 12-15, 2011. There were 404 eligible voters, with 180 faculty casting votes (45%).

A two-year, $117,000 National Science Foundation grant will enable Humboldt State University physics students to conduct the most rigorous test worldwide of Einstein’s famous theory of relativity in the campus’s Gravitational Research Laboratory.

The College of Natural Resources and Sciences has received a half a million dollar grant to purchase an environmental scanning electron microscope, a cutting-edge tool that will boost faculty-led research in the earth, physical and biological sciences.

Humboldt State University will conduct the Grand Opening of its new College Creek Apartment complex on Thursday, Sept. 22, at 1:30 p.m. in the facility’s Great Hall, One Harpst Street, Arcata.

Lt. Lynne Soderberg was sworn in as interim-chief of police for the University Police Department in a ceremony on Thursday.

Humboldt State will host a free, two-day symposium on traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) for faculty, students, staff and the public from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sept. 22 and 23.

“There’s so much that needs to be different in this world,” said Lorena Boswell, Youth Educational Services (YES) coordinator. “It wouldn’t happen without volunteers. Volunteers are essential.”