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After months of collaboration among various campus groups and departments, Humboldt State has been named a top school for sustainability by STARS (Sustainability Tracking, Assessment and Rating System), a nationwide program that measures the sustainability performance of colleges and universities across the nation.

Humboldt State University has released a Campus Diversity Plan, a comprehensive tool for increasing and monitoring diversity and inclusive student success on campus.

Humboldt State University welcomes 21 new tenure-line faculty and librarians for the 2014-15 academic school year.

Humboldt State University welcomes 26 new tenure-line faculty and librarians for the 2013-14 academic school year.

Humboldt State University welcomes 26 new tenure-line faculty and librarians for the 2013-14 academic school year.

In biology, some creatures are simply evolutionary oddities. Take the aardvark, for example, or the duck billed platypus—animals with distinct, unusual features that make them unique in the mammal world.

Humboldt State University is launching its 100th Anniversary Year with a cluster of new student support programs to build diversity and boost retention and graduation rates.

Lucia Boyer picked up the tiny jellyfish with tongs and dunked it into a bath of liquid nitrogen. With the cauldron still smoking and sizzling, she transferred the frozen organism into a freeze dryer, where low temperature and a vacuum would eventually transform the ice directly into gas.

Humboldt State University will host the fourth Institute for Student Success, a one-day professional event for staff, faculty and administration, from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m., Tuesday, Aug. 20 on the HSU campus.

Humboldt State University’s family-geared 100th Birthday Festival will be held on Saturday, Aug. 24 from 4-7 p.m. on the Arcata Plaza. The event is free and open to the public.

Joe Camacho (’14, Environmental Management and Protection) is passionate about geology. So passionate, in fact, that he spent his entire summer investigating ancient fault lines in the heart of Tennessee.

_The following was provided by the CSU Chancellor's Office._

For electric vehicles to take off on the North Coast, Humboldt County would need about 43 charging stations from Orick to Garberville.

A New York Times best selling author and a renowned nature photographer headline Humboldt State University’s Centennial Speaker Series presented by Center Arts. With talks by authors Paul Ehrlich, Peter Singer, Naomi Klein and Michael Eric Dyson, union organizer Arturo S. Rodriguez and photographer James Balog, Humboldt State celebrates Big Ideas during the campus’s Centennial Celebration.

Not many college students can say they're a published writer. But "young adult author" is a title that Vincent Gonzalez (’15, Wildlife) recently added to his resume.

Registration is now open for the 2013 Marine Sciences Summer Program. The three-session program is an opportunity for young children (first through sixth grades) to learn about the coastal environment through fun and exciting activities.

Humboldt State Professor C.D. Hoyle, Department of Physics and Astronomy, has received a three-year, $155,746 continuation grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for ongoing testing of Newton’s law of gravity and Einstein’s theory of relativity in HSU’s Gravitational Research Laboratory.

Humboldt State University oceanography professor Christine Cass has been named one of the top 20 women professors in California by "statestats.org":http://www.statestats.org/ and "onlineschoolscalifornia.com":http://onlineschoolscalifornia.com/.

Humboldt State University will host its 2013 Commencement ceremonies on Saturday, May 18, in Redwood Bowl.

What role do native bees play in local crop pollination? And should local farmers establish better habitats to support them?

Humboldt State has discarded over a ton of hazardous materials and electronic waste this past year thanks the Campus Wide Waste Collection Project.

If there’s one thing that Masha Melnik (’13) knows well, it’s time management.

_The following was provided by the California State University Chancellor's Office_:

Humboldt State’s Residential Academic Mentoring Program will host a career panel with community leaders Monday, April 29 from 4 to 7 p.m. in the Great Hall above the College Creek Marketplace. The event is free and open to the public.

Middle and high school students from Arcata High, Douglas City, Eureka High, McKinleyville High and Sunny Brae won top honors at Humboldt State University’s Department of Mathematics 54th annual Redwood Empire Mathematics Tournament on April 13.