Campus News

Guide Boosts Quake/Tsunami Readiness

Humboldt State University’s Humboldt Earthquake Education Center, in coordination with the Redwood Coast Tsunami Group, has produced a new edition of the preparedness handbook _Living on Shaky Ground_, which will soon update northern California residents on how to survive the kind of devastation wreaked five years ago when an Indian Ocean tsunami killed at least 230,000 people in 11 countries. It was the worst recorded tsunami ever.

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Alumni and Friends Give $3.5 Million to HSU

Humboldt State University received more than $3.5 million from almost 8,300 donors in the last fiscal year. Also, the value of gifts from parents shot up 76 percent from the previous year.

Holiday Clothing Drive

Student & Business Services Building employees will collect holiday donations of clothing from the campus and community through Wednesday, Dec. 2.

HSU Holiday Food Drive

The Service Learning Center is excited to invite the entire HSU campus to participate in a Holiday Food Drive taking place through Monday, Dec. 7.

Campus H1N1 Clinics Set for Nov. 17 and 18

Humboldt State University is offering two more no-cost H1N1 vaccination clinics on Tuesday, Nov. 17, in the University Center South Lounge, from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., and Wednesday, Nov. 18, from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. in the Jolly Giant Commons, second floor. Vaccinations will be administered by a nurse.

Humboldt Students Take Back the Tap

Humboldt State’s student-lead Take Back The Tap campaign has unveiled two hydration stations, offering the campus filtered water in sanitary conditions, while reducing dependency on disposable water bottles.

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HSU Plays Key Role in Energy Scorecard

California is the country's most energy efficient state, according to a recent report card Schatz Energy Research Center engineers helped develop.

HSU Hosts 8th Annual International Ed Week

For the eighth 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.

HSU Hosts China/Climate Warming Forum

Arcata – On the eve of President Barack Obama’s trip to the People’s Republic of China, Humboldt State University faculty will host a public forum on Monday, Nov. 9, at 5 p.m. in Science B, Room 135, on the likely long-term impact of U.S. and Chinese energy policy on global climate change. The presentation is titled “China, the U.S. and the World” and is open to the general public as well as the campus community.

HSU Hosts Hiroshima Awareness Workshop

Humboldt State University’s Department of Religious Studies, teamed with the Center for Indian Community Development (CICD) and faculty from multiple disciplines, will host a three-day Hiroshima and genocide awareness forum November 12-14, based on a new book about the first atomic bombing by Father Eric Freed, director of HSU’s Newman Center and a lecturer in the department.

Biology Mentoring at HSU Gets Leg Up

Students who may never have dreamed of studying the sciences will get the chance thanks to an $892,000 grant awarded to Humboldt State by the National Science Foundation. It’s for recruitment and training of under-represented minorities.

John Waters and the Human Integration Project Class

The Human Integration Project Class involves a multidisciplinary study of growth, creativity, unity, and integration. Students will study cults, schools, social leaders, and other dominant parties who fail in theory and in practice to define the full human potential. This potential includes the integration of human brain functions, languages, senses, intelligences, and human beings in the social group, so that no faculty, sense, talent, or person gets denied or ignored.

HSU Nets $100K Social Work Degree Grant

Humboldt State University’s Department of Social Work has secured $100,600 for a pilot project that will set Del Norte County child welfare staff on the road to a bachelor’s degree in social work while working full time.

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Unraveling the Moon Tree Mystery

When you think of the moon what comes to mind? Cheese, romance, aliens, redwoods? When first hearing the words “moon trees,” one might imagine ancient spiritual rites, but research reveals a more scientific explanation.

HSU Aims $25,000 at Green/Food Security Projects

Humboldt State University’s Service Learning Center will collaborate with community partners on green initiatives and food security via a $25,000 grant from the Corporation for National and Community Service, a federal agency responsible for AmeriCorps, Senior Corps and Learn and Serve America programs, through the California Campus Compact.

Experts Urge Full ‘ShakeOut’ Participation

Humboldt State University Geology Professor and seismic expert Lori Dengler urges maximum participation in the statewide Great California ShakeOut earthquake drill at 10:15 a.m. on Oct. 15, because only Humboldt and Del Norte Counties’ emergency response was satisfactory among all the California counties alerted to the Tsunami Advisory triggered by the recent Samoa earthquake and tsunami.

HSU Hosts Social Work Forums

Humboldt State University’s Department of Social Work will host three information sessions in the next 90 days for its Master’s in Social Work program, an advanced generalist curriculum with a specific focus on social work practice in rural and indigenous communities.

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Housing Project Nears Halfway Mark

With the fall semester moving briskly along, work on the College Creek Apartments has lent shape and structure to the new housing facility. With windows, roofing tiles and the beginnings of a soccer field in place, it’s starting to look like a place to call home.

HSU Launches Search for KHSU General Manager

Arcata - Humboldt State University is soliciting applications for the position of General Manager of KHSU-FM, the public radio station, licensed to, supported by, and located on the HSU campus.

HSU Alert Drill Generates Record Text Messages

More than 3,600 text messages were forwarded in less than five minutes from Humboldt State University to various private cell phone networks during the September 24th test of the school’s Emergency Alert System.

Journalism Students Learn from Leading Business Newsrooms

Journalism and Mass Communication majors Ashley Bailey, Karina Gonzalez, Lye Landau, Tristan Pulido and Sara Wilmot have been accepted to attend a highly-competitive business journalism conference in New York taking place in October.

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Vets Call Transition Services a Lifesaver

Humboldt State military veterans say the thing they miss the most about their service experience—soldierly camaraderie—is supplied in spades by the University’s year-old Veterans Enrollment and Transition Services Office, staffed by fellow vet undergraduate and graduate students.