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Humboldt State University Rangeland Resources Science majors Travis DiGennaro and Crystal Welch will share the $1,000 Paul Zinke Memorial Scholarship Award for 2013.

Humboldt State University’s College of Natural Resources and Sciences (CNRS), part of which had its 1930s genesis in a campus fish hatchery, is showcasing HSU’s 100th anniversary with a full slate of special science lectures and open houses in October.

Sockeye salmon expert Daniel Schindler, professor of aquatic and fishery sciences, University of Washington, will examine the ongoing environmental conflict pitting fish versus mineral exploration in Alaska’s Bristol Bay watershed in a lecture at Humboldt State University sponsored by the Department of Fisheries Biology.

Michael Kauffmann ('12, M.S. Biological Sciences), adviser for Humboldt State’s Redwood Science Project, has published _Conifers of the Pacific Slope_, a contemporary field guide for identifying Pacific Slope conifers.

Crows are among the most intelligent animals on the planet. But just how smart are they? A new "study":http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/eth.12064/abstract;jsessioni… led by wildlife faculty member Barbara Clucas suggests that they can tell when humans are watching them and adapt their behavior accordingly.

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?