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Richard Engel, an engineer with the Schatz Energy Research Center and an Environmental Resources Engineering alum ('88), is back at HSU after serving as a Fulbright scholar to El Salvador. Engel spent a semester teaching and assisting with renewable energy projects in the region.

Nearly 40 years since it was last spotted on the surface of the Moon, a team of scientists, including C.D. Hoyle, of the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Humboldt State University, located Soviet reflector Lunokhod 1.

The Department of Biological Sciences has announced the recipients of the Department’s numerous awards and scholarships.

A team of Humboldt State University students from the Renewable Energy Student Union has won a $75,000 technology design award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for a prototype smart-grid electrical system in Bhutan, a landlocked developing country between India and China.

Humboldt State University will host a presentation of findings on the recent Chile earthquake and tsunami on Monday, April 26, at 5 p.m. in Founders Hall Room 118.

The results are official. Two HSU Environmental Resources Engineering teams have earned a Meritorious Winner award for their entries in the 2010 Consortium for Mathematics and Its Applications (COMAP) Mathematical Modeling Contest.

A team of Humboldt State University students from the Renewable Energy Student Union is competing late this month for up to $75,000 in technology design awards from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, aimed at fostering sustainability in both the developed and developing world.

Dr. Tim Lipman is the next presenter in the Sustainable Futures speaker series. Lipman will speak on Thursday, April 8 from 6:30 to 8 p.m., in the Natural Resources Building room 101 (NR101) on the HSU campus. The title of his talk is "Low Carbon Vehicle Research at UC Berkeley's Transportation Sustainability Research Center."

Humboldt State University Mathematics Professor Chris Dugaw has been awarded nearly $292,000 in federal funds to model the effects of moisture on fire behavior in the forest floor.

Walter Stahel, Swiss author of The Performance Economy and a specialist in sustainability, will analyze low carbon economics in the 17th Annual Chung-Watson Lecture at Humboldt State University on Thursday, April 8, at 4 p.m. in the Kate Buchanan Room at University Center.

Lori Dengler, chair of Humboldt State University’s Department of Geology, will lead a reconnaissance effort to Chile March 25 to April 4 to evaluate the impacts of the recent earthquake and tsunami and improve readiness along the Redwood Coast and the Pacific Northwest.

Math students are getting some extra help with their homework this semester thanks to added hours and another location for Math Tutoring Lab.

Robert J. Lang, an international leader in computational origami and among the world’s foremost origami artists with a repertoire of more than 500 designs, will deliver a free public lecture at Humboldt State University on Tuesday, March 9. The 2008 "TED Conference":http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/robert_lang_folds_way_new_origami.html speaker will address the links between Japanese paper-folding and the solution of modern scientific and engineering problems.

The Association for Women in Mathematics selected HSU Mathematics Professor Phyllis Chinn as the winner of the 20th Louise Hay Award for Contributions to Mathematics Education.

Humboldt State University’s Department of Geology will present a community forum, “The Week the Earth Trembled,” on Monday, February 8, at 5 p.m. in the Kate Buchanan Room, weighing the impact of and lessons learned from the January 9 and 13 earthquakes on the North Coast and in Haiti.

Humboldt State University Fisheries Biology Professor David Hankin is among the recipients of a three-year, $720,000 California Ocean Protection Council award, administered by California Sea Grant, to explore the connections between ocean climate and the survival and abundance of the state’s Chinook salmon.

Humboldt State University’s Department of Mathematics invites the general public to same-day, consecutive lectures in February about fisheries science and policymaking by a researcher in mathematical and theoretical biology who specializes in ecology, evolution and behavior and applied science.

Wildlife professionals across the state know they can count on Humboldt State when the unexpected happens. That’s why, last October, when a 72-foot blue whale tragically died and washed up on the Mendocino County coast, Professor P. Dawn Goley was among the first to be notified.

Humboldt State University’s Schatz Energy Research Center is road testing a smog-free, hydrogen-powered Toyota fuel cell hybrid vehicle as part of an effort to commercialize the smog-free vehicle in five years.

The HSU Natural History Museum opens its doors for a interactive workshop in physical science for children ages 7 to 14 years. Chemistry and Physics Discovery Day is on Saturday, Dec. 12. The event runs from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. with exhibits on both chemistry and physics during the four hours.

Humboldt State University alumnus Robert Thomas (geology, ’85), professor of geology at the University of Montana Western, Dillon, Montana, and a 2008 winner of HSU’s Distinguished Alumni Award, has been named a 2009 U.S. Professor of the Year by the Council for Advancement and Support of Education, sponsored by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.

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.

Humboldt sent a team of five students to Orlando, Florida, to compete in this year’s Quiz Bowl.

Professor Jeff Black, from the Department of Wildlife, is among 12 new fellows recently honored by the California Academy of Sciences.

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