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In its first year, the HSU Department of Government and Politics' Model United Nations program garnered three Meritorious Delegation awards at the 2007 Model United Nations of the Far West conference in San Francisco last weekend. The Meritorious Delegation Award recognizes academic excellence in preparation and participation at the conference. The three awards earned by HSU placed it in the conference’s top three performers.

Stephen C. Sillett, Professor and Kenneth L. Fisher Chair in Redwood Forest Ecology at Humboldt State University, is one of the key figures in The Wild Trees—the latest book by Richard Preston. Preston is a regular contributor to The New Yorker, and is widely considered one of the world's leading science writers.

Humboldt State University Geography Professor Stephen Cunha, Director of the California Geographic Alliance and latter-day Marco Polo of "living geography," has won a prestigious California State University Wang Family Excellence Award of $20,000.

Dr. Steven Steinberg of HSU's Environmental and Natural Resource Science Department has been selected President-Elect of the Northern California Region of the American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS). The region includes members and chapters in Northern California, Nevada and Hawaii.

Dr. Tasha R. Howe, HSU Associate Professor of Psychology, has won a Fulbright Scholarship, January to June, 2008, in Cyprus to work at the Mediterranean Institute of Gender Studies in Nicosia, a non-profit organization. Dr. Howe will train social workers in violence prevention skills, using the American Psychological Association's ACT Against Violence curriculum, for which she is a nationally certified trainer.

Humboldt State University Geography Professor Stephen Cunha was honored with the Hilda Taba Award at the California Council for Social Studies annual meeting in Oakland.

Amber Gaffney, Humboldt State University alumna ('06), was awarded the Western Psychological Association’s 2007 Christina Maslach-Philip Zimbardo Research Award in Social Psychology. Ms. Gaffney, a doctoral student in Social Psychology at the Claremont Graduate University, was recognized for research conducted in a Senior Honor’s Thesis under the direction of Dr. Gregg Gold (HSU Psychology).

HSU Alum Timothy Baroni ('72, '74), an international expert in the field of mycology, has been appointed a Distinguished Professor, one rank above Full Professor, by the State University of New York (SUNY) College at Cortland. It is the highest academic rank in the SUNY.

College of Professional Studies at HSU is hosting an awards reception April 19 honoring community partners and students who have demonstrated excellence in academics and community service.

HSU Geography lecturer and alumni Christopher Haynes was named Outstanding Educator by the California Geographic Society at its 61st annual conference Mar. 16-18 in Borrego Springs, CA . This prestigious award recognizes one outstanding geography instructor from a field of kindergarten through university educators. Haynes joins an impressive list of past recipients including professors from the University of California.

The National Science Foundation (NSF) recently awarded Humboldt State nearly a half million dollars to finance a new scholarship program aimed at encouraging more students to enter the science and technology fields. Humboldt’s scholarship program is part of a new national effort to help the United States regain its prominence as a leader in fields such as engineering and computer science.

Dr. Chris Aberson, HSU Associate Professor of Psychology, has joined the editorial board of "Teaching of Psychology," regarded as the field's top outlet for information on the scholarship of teaching. The journal is considered indispensable as a source of teaching methods and a forum for new ideas.

HSU Professor Sam Sonntag has been awarded a Fulbright Chair in Canada to pursue her research of resistance to the global spread of English.

Justin Williams, an Interdisciplinary Studies major at Humboldt State University, has won first place and a nearly $1,000 prize in a major international essay competition on environmental politics, inaugurated by Keele University in Staffordshire, the United Kingdom.

People with social support have fewer cardiovascular and immune problems, HSU Associate Professor of Psychology Tasha Howe tells the online publication WebMD.

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a three-year, $610,917 grant to the Computing Science Department at Humboldt State University (HSU) to finance the Coalition for American Indians in Computing (CAIC) project, one of only 12 such projects funded nationally among the 104 grant proposals submitted to the foundation.

Accepting the recommendation of the Faculty Awards Committee of Humboldt State University's Academic Senate, President Rollin Richmond has named Dr. Christina Accomando, Associate Professor of English, Ethnic Studies, and Women’s Studies, Outstanding Professor 2006-2007.

Honoring Humboldt State University's teamwork with the Open Source Learning Management System popularly known as Moodle, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has given HSU a one-year, $100,000 Technology Collaboration Award.

Humboldt State University students, along with school administration, staff and faculty members, collected and donated a record 2,202 pounds of food during this year’s HSU Holiday Food Drive to support the efforts of Food For People, Humboldt County’s food bank.

Economist and author Christopher Thornberg will discuss real estate bubbles and California's economic growth as part of Humboldt State University's Department of Economics Occasional Lecture Series on Thursday, Nov. 30, from 4:00 to 5:00 p.m. in Science A 564.

The R.V. Coral Sea may have been completed in 1973, but she's not exactly feeling her age just yet. In fact, these days the Humboldt State-owned research vessel is breaking in a brand-new set of new low-pollutant engines.

Humboldt State University has been named to the President's Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll, With Distinction for Hurricane Relief Service. Nationwide, more than 500 colleges applied for the President's Honor Roll in its inaugural year, and Humboldt State was one of 141 colleges and universities honored for distinguished community service and Hurricane Katrina Relief.

"There is no more remarkable strip of crust on earth than that where the great rivers of eastern Tibet almost jostle each other in their eagerness to escape from the roof of the world…Deep down in their troughs they rage," so said British botanist, F. Kingdon Ward, in 1922.

HSU Geography Department lecturer Chris Haynes and 20 geography students spent an entire weekend exploring Lava Beds National Monument.

HSU's Service Learning Center has recently been awarded a $50,000, 3-year grant from California Campus Compact to serve as the Northern California regional leader in the Youth to College (Y2C) Initiative, which aims to increase college readiness among youth from disadvantaged situations.