Arcata - The HSU School of Business and its Institute for Entrepreneurship Education will offer a one unit course in the fall of 2009, “Business for Scientists,” an introductory overview of business skills designed for both professional and personal use.
EUREKA, _Calif_.—Humboldt State’s First Street Gallery presents _Not What It Seems: Paintings and Mixed Media by Karen Sullivan_, from Feb. 7 through March 9. This exhibition features work created from Sullivan’s curious intermingling of the subconscious with the everyday world.
Arcata – Contemporary landscape photography, including works by two Humboldt State University alumni, will be featured Feb. 12 through March 12 at the University’s Reese Bullen Gallery opposite Van Duzer Theater.
The local, organic produce served at Humboldt State's main dining hall is fresh. In fact, if you're eating a salad in The J at noon, there's a good chance the lettuce was picked that same morning.
William Shubert, a Geography major at Humboldt State, was recently awarded an internship with National Geographic in Washington D.C. The internship will begin in the fall of 2009.
Arcata – Humboldt State University will host some 250 high school students in early February from the Bay Area, the Sacramento Valley and north to the Redwood Coast at a Leadership Conference in Sustainability that builds on HSU’s historical role in green initiatives.
Long Beach, Calif.—The California State Student Association (CSSA) today opened its annual search for a Student Trustee to serve on the California State University (CSU) Board of Trustees. Applications are now being accepted by the CSSA.
Arcata – Humboldt State University will celebrate the 200th birthday of Charles Darwin (1809-1882), eminent British naturalist and author of the history-making On the Origin of Species, with ceremonies on Thursday, February 12, at noon in the Lobby-Atrium of building Science B.
Arcata – The Humboldt State University Library has begun construction of a full-scale Internet Café, the second phase of a multi-pronged project to furnish the campus with a 2lst century Learning Commons that bridges the print and digital worlds.
Friends Anna Leeper, a junior at Humboldt State, and Rachael, a student at Zane Middle School in Eureka, Calif., have gone through a lot together over the past two years. There have been Rachael’s hair and style transformations, Anna’s hectic school schedule and the requisite discussions about boys and relationships. These shared experiences have helped Anna and Rachael grow closer and develop a friendship based on trust and having a good time.
Without DNA analysis educated guesses would be the best a forensic scientist could offer, television programs like _CSI New York_ would be much less interesting and forget about identifying those ancient mummy remains.
University Police caution everyone in the campus community to be alert for encounters with wild animals, following a fox attack on a student in the Quad on Thursday evening, January 22. Though the victim was bitten on the shoe, rabies treatment has been ordered as a precaution.
Workshop proposals for the 2009 Social Justice Summit are due by close of business on Friday, January 30. Proposals can be submitted online at http://studentaffairs.humboldt.edu/multicultural/summit/index.php or dial Mona Mazzotti, Outreach and Social Justice Coordinator of the MultiCultural Center, at 826-3369.
Arcata – Humboldt State University is accepting applications for resident mentors and teachers to provide tutoring and other college preparatory services at the 2009 Summer Academy financed by TRiO Upward Bound, the federally funded program that helps limited-income high school students whose parents do not have a college degree.
Arcata – Academy Award-winner Tony DeRose, senior scientist at Pixar Animation Studios and one of the major designers of Geri in the Oscar-winning short film “Geri’s Game,” will analyze the impact of the digital revolution on film making in an appearance at Humboldt State University.
ARCATA — Finishing off the first half of the California Collegiate Athletic Association season, the Humboldt State men's and women's basketball teams travel to take on top competition in Southern California this weekend. Meanwhile, HSU's spring sports will be busy preparing for their own rapidly approaching seasons.
“It’s something that wind players in Humboldt County have been talking about for ten years,” Kenneth Ayoob recalls. But a real wind ensemble demands thirty or more players. It just didn’t seem possible.
Skunks have a popularity problem. But Prof. William Wood, a chemical ecologist at Humboldt State, has spent his career focusing on how plants and animals use chemicals to communicate messages—including skunks’ famous defensive spray. Prof. Wood’s work will be featured next week on the PBS show _Nature_.
Humboldt State NOW recently added a host of features including new options for sharing and storing articles, new ways to stay up to date on all things HSU, and a new section dedicated to University Notices, the weekly university updates you're used to seeing in your in box.
CSU construction projects are being halted on all 23 campuses in response to a state freeze on $600 million in general obligation and lease revenue bonds that finance the projects.
Humboldt State has prepared a new handbook with extensive budget information for fiscal year 2008-09 titled “The Operating and Capital Budget Book,” available at the "Budget website":http://www.humboldt.edu/~budget.
The campus community should be aware of traffic impacts and pedestrian detours related to the construction of the new College Creek Apartments and the rebuilding of the soccer field.
