The Full Belly Project and Humboldt State University’s Introduction to Design course hosted an open house from 5 to 6 p.m. on Tuesday, Dec. 16 at HSU. The event marked the public unveiling of seven student team designs that improve and adapt the internationally acclaimed Universal Nut Sheller (UNS) as part of an international service learning partnership.
With the growing concern over climate change and because the lack of pre-existing federal regulations, California has struck out on its own to reduce its carbon emissions. The Golden State is known for being the country’s environmental trendsetter and is now setting the pace for carbon emissions policy with the California Climate Change Solutions Act (AB 32). AB 32 is a mandate to lower carbon emissions to 1990 levels by 2020 and to have an 80 percent reduction below 1990 levels by 2050.
_A Slight Derangement_ by contemporary trombonist and composer Bret Zvacek highlights the AM Jazz Band performance on Thursday night, Dec. 11, kicking off the last jazz weekend of the calendar year at HSU.
Arcata – Construction is slated to start early this year on a $2.9 million home for Humboldt State University’s Schatz Energy Research Center (SERC), for three decades a pioneer in clean air technologies like hydrogen power.
Ocean waves are a promising source of renewable electric power for the Redwood Coast, but the policy issues are complex and will force political tradeoffs, according to a state-commissioned white paper co-authored, in part, by experts from Humboldt State.
Arcata - Dr. Ronald A. Fritzsche, an alum ('67) and Professor of Fisheries Biology Emeritus at Humboldt State University, is one of 18 scientists worldwide and the only one from the U.S. west coast invited to a key conference in London in January to evaluate the marine fish species on the international endangered list.
Arcata – Humboldt State University junior Molly Louise McNulty, a native of McKinleyville, will attend the January 20, 2009 Inauguration of President-elect Barack Obama and Vice President-elect Joe Biden at the invitation of the University Presidential Inaugural Conference, Washington, D.C.
ARCATA — Zac Tiedeman began his California Collegiate Athletic Association career like a veteran Wednesday, scoring 25 points and hitting key shots down the stretch to help Humboldt State claim a 80-78 win over Sonoma State in the league-opener.
Humboldt State University students, along with school administration, staff and faculty members, collected and donated 950 pounds of food during this year’s HSU Holiday Food Drive to support the efforts of Food for People, Humboldt County’s food bank.
Arcata – Humboldt State University’s Career Center has more than doubled student placement salaries in 2008 with a grand total of $2.17 million generated by 503 local jobs.
A Humboldt State alum is the recipient of a national fellowship designed to advance the work of individuals with outstanding potential to help shape a brighter environmental future.
ARCATA – New goals, and new measurements of success come into focus this week when the Humboldt State men's and women's basketball teams open the California Collegiate Athletic Association season.
Humboldt State University's Green Campus Program recently entered a video in the National Wildlife Federation's "Campus Chill Out" competition. Students, staff, faculty and members of the HSU community can vote for the video online, increasing the chance the video is selected as the competition's winner.
Assistant Professors Mark Baker and Noah Zerbe, both recognized experts in their fields, were each sought out to present their research at international academic symposiums over the past month.
The Madrigal Singers in Elizabethan costumes celebrate the holidays in traditional fashion, while the Mad River Singers swing and get funky in their annual autumn concert on Sunday, Dec. 7 in Fulkerson Recital Hall.
Three HSU percussion groups—the Percussion Ensemble, World Percussion Group and the Calypso Band—bring cross-currents of world rhythms to the Van Duzer Theatre on Saturday, Dec. 6.
Three conductors lead the HSU Symphonic Band in six modern band works by five living composers, and one dead guy. Not bad for one concert, which happens on Friday, Dec. 5 in Fulkerson Recital Hall.
“Visual storytelling just keeps blossoming,” says Professor Ann Alter, head of the film program at Humboldt State University. It is Alter’s dedication and hard work that have helped HSU’s film program grow and bloom.
Humboldt State University’s long-standing dedication to environmental responsibility continues with the launch of "a new Web site":http://www.humboldt.edu/green/ highlighting the University’s commitment to sustainability.
WALNUT CREEK — Humboldt State guard/forward Katie Franci has been named Wilson California Collegiate Athletic Association Women’s Basketball Player of the Week for the week of November 17-23.
OK, if you had to name the top botanist of all-time who would you pick? The obvious choice, of course, would be the sly and debonair Leonhart Fuchs, but, then again, Otto Brunfels’s observations were pretty groundbreaking too. And, then there’s Hieronymus Bock …
Arcata – Zac Tiedeman scored 22 points and Humboldt State turned up the defensive pressure on the way to a 94-78 win over William Jessup in a non-conference game Monday.
Arcata – Humboldt State University President Rollin C. Richmond has been appointed by the University of California to the Board of Directors of the California Council on Science and Technology, a non-profit, non-partisan corporation that provides the state government with expert advice on science and technology policy issues.
