Arcata—Dr. Alistair McCrone, after serving as Humboldt State's president for some 28 years, is leading a new era of fund raising at Humboldt State University with an exciting new gift.
Two of hip-hop’s most successful MC’s visit Arcata this week, bringing their funk-laden beats, lyrical acrobatics and high energy stage show along with them.
Margaret Gainer, 57, director of Humboldt State's Office for Economic and Community Development (OECD), has been appointed to Califoria's Economic Strategy Panel.
The 28 players of the Humboldt Bay Brass Band performs classics, new compositions and another newly discovered and arranged march by the legendary Humboldt County bandmaster Professor Frank Flowers, on Saturday, Nov. 1 at the Fulkerson Recital Hall.
Arcata - Combating poverty’s blight on Redwood Coast health care requires comprehensive child coverage and ensuring that youngsters have medical and dental ‘homes,’ according to a survey by the California Center for Rural Policy (CCRP) at Humboldt State University.
The Humboldt State University community was shocked and saddened following the suicide of a student sometime late Sunday evening or early Monday morning.
ARCATA — A special tribute to the men's and women's soccer programs' senior players highlights the week of sporting events for Humboldt State Athletics.
A record number of alumni are making gifts to Humboldt State University as the participation rate for the number of confirmed alumni has risen to 10 percent, a rate that is projected to top the 23-campus California State University system. This information comes from a recently submitted report on 2007-2008 academic year giving to the American Council on Education.
There’s nothing like a little sin to get the creative juices flowing. Humboldt State’s "Art Department":http://www.humboldt.edu/~art/ will host a collaborative exhibit titled “Sin in Tin,” that aims to raise funds for various department programs. The show will feature work from students, faculty and staff, and focuses on the seven deadly sins.
Arcata - Marine scientists at Humboldt State and their colleagues at U.C. Davis have uncovered a large eddy southwest of Cape Mendocino that they suspect interferes with the flow of nutrients and marine species to waters farther south.
The dim, stuffy room was packed with excited students. Strains of conversations continued from the earlier "Renewable Energy Student Union":http://resu.humboldt.edu/~resu/ meeting floated through the air. These conversations were not your typical engineering talk; they were revolutionary engineering talk.
The new $44 million Kinesiology and Athletics Building, designed by Yost Grube Hall Architecture, ushers in a new era in education and athletic competition for Humboldt State students, faculty, staff and alumni. The campus and the community will benefit from top-notch educational spaces, labs, health programs and a spacious, modern arena. Kiewit Building Group constructed the 91,598 square-foot facility using 325 tons of structural steel, 400 tons of rebar and 4,800 yards of concrete.
Arcata – Leading authorities on Redwood Coast economics and finance will examine the global credit crisis and looming recession at a Humboldt State University roundtable on Wednesday, Oct. 29, from 3:00 to 5:00 p.m. in Goodwin Forum, Nelson Hall East.
Arcata – Humboldt State University has established two solar energy initiatives as part of a joint program with "California State University":http://www.calstate.edu/ and the "California Department of General Services":http://www.dgs.ca.gov/default.htm to generate eight megawatts of solar photovoltaic power and reduce the human carbon footprint.
For her second solo recital as a faculty member of the "HSU Music Department":http://www.humboldt.edu/~mus/index.php, pianist Ching-Ming Cheng plans to take the audience on a journey: “chronologically, technically and musically.”
For some high school students, nothing is quite as terrifying as cracking open an algebra book to find a dizzying array of numbers, letters and peculiar Greek symbols peering back at them.
Humboldt State’s Information Technology Services (ITS) is preparing to update email and calendaring systems, adding new functionality and additional features.
"It's a beautiful thing to get up in front of hundreds and to get people laughing and thinking," said author and educator Richard Van Camp, who will deliver the keynote address at the "Fall English Studies Conference Uniting Educators", held Friday and Saturday, Oct. 24 and 25, in Humboldt State's Founders Hall.
Arcata - "KHSU/KHSR-FM"::http://www.khsu.org/ will broadcast exclusive interviews during its Fall 2008 membership drive with Dr. Helen Caldicott, a specialist in the medical hazards of the nuclear age, and Helen Thomas, First Lady of the White House Press Corps.
Arcata - Dr. L. Scott Quackenbush, executive director of the Dauphin Island Sea Lab, Dauphin Island, Alabama, and Humboldt State University’s Associate Dean of Marine Science and Director of the Telonicher Marine Laboratory in Trinidad from 2005 to 2008, died Oct. 12 at his home in Mobile, Ala., after a brief illness. He was 56 and reportedly succumbed to cancer.
Nine HSU Students, along with Geography Professor Tony Rossi, are currently on a six week trip across Tibet as part of the GEOG 411 Senior Field Research course.
While not itself all that old, the HSU Jazz Orchestra will highlight a composition by the man the Guinness Book of Records recognized as the founder of the oldest continuously existing jazz band on the planet—or at least it was until recently. It happens at Fulkerson Recital Hall on the HSU campus in Arcata on Saturday, Oct. 18, when the Jazz Orchestra plays their half of the program, preceded by the HSU Symphonic Band.
