The new state budget provides the California State University system with essentially the same level of state support as last year. The final CSU budget consists of $2.97 billion from the state General Fund and $1.5 billion from student fee revenue. The budget is $215 million below CSU’s operational needs for 2008-09, according to the inflation and enrollment growth calculations by the Governor’s Department of Finance.
Arcata - Humboldt State University has achieved record enrollment of 99 international students this fall and now has in its sights enlarging the International Programs Office into a full-blown International Resource Center, which would be a clearinghouse for all international programs and services for students and faculty within 10 years.
In various combinations and as soloists, soprano Elisabeth Harrington with clarinetist Virginia Ryder and pianists Deborah Clasquin, Ching-Ming Cheng and John Chernoff perform jazz-inspired classics on Friday, September 26 in the Fulkerson Recital Hall, in the HSU Music Department Faculty Artists Series.
Arcata - The student-financed Humboldt Energy Independence Fund (HEIF) will award $100,000 this semester for student-designed energy conservation, generation or education projects. A request for proposals (RFP) is posted on the HEIF website and the HEIF Committee hosted a brainstorm kickoff on Thursday, Sept. 18 in the South Lounge, University Center, to spur student collaboration and proposals.
ARCATA — September comes to a frenzied end when Humboldt State hosts six home sports events this week. Home football, along with men's and women's soccer, are all slated in Redwood Bowl, while volleyball plays a pair of matches in Lumberjack Arena. Before the weekend, however, the HSU soccer teams will travel for midweek conference games.
If Green Wheels ruled the world, B Street would become a public space with green space for people to hang out, walk, and ride their bikes and boards. On Thursday Sept. 25 Green Wheels will have their wish granted for one day.
You could call Taj Mahal, birth name Henry Saint Clair Fredericks, a blues legend, but the guitar slinger’s sound goes far beyond simple 12-bar odes to failed love or tough times.
September is Preparedness Month and there are plenty of ways to get ready before the next emergency. Humboldt State’s Emergency Management Web site contains a wide variety of information covering everything from current conditions on campus to tips on preparing for the next event.
For three decades, the Campus Center for Appropriate Technology (CCAT) has been Humboldt State’s live-in demonstration home and education center spreading the message of sustainable living and design.
Arcata – Humboldt State University expects to save almost $60,000 and cut 253 metric tons of campus greenhouse gas emissions annually through two new projects funded by the Energy Efficiency Partnership with California State University and the University of California.
ARCATA — Humboldt State University will honor five individuals and one team with induction into its Athletics Hall of Fame during Homecoming festivities scheduled for Oct. 3 and 4.
Arcata - The Reese Bullen Gallery at Humboldt State University will showcase a new rotation of its permanent collection in “Views from the Vault,” an exhibit of works handpicked by HSU students enrolled in the Museum & Gallery Practices class, commencing Thursday, Sept. 25. The public is invited to attend the opening reception that day from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m.
Arcata - Humboldt State University undergraduate Rani Ram, winner of a $3,000 William Randolph Hearst/California State University (CSU) Trustees Award for Outstanding Achievement, spent the summer in a primate field study in Costa Rica under the auspices of HSU’s Department of Anthropology.
Eureka - The Humboldt State University Alumni Association and Center Activities will present HSU’s “People-Powered Water Adventure,” the Sixth Annual Humboldt Bay Paddlefest, on Saturday, Sept. 27, and Sunday, Sept. 28, on the Eureka Waterfront.
Arcata — Humboldt State's new football coach, Rob Smith, made his much anticipated debut in front of a home audience with the Lumberjacks delivering a strong first half but ultimately losing to Smith's former team, the Western Washington University Vikings, in a 30-14 game on Saturday.
Arcata - Dr. Lori Dengler, Professor and Chair of Humboldt State University’s Department of Geology and the University’s 2008 Scholar of Year, will present a free lecture on Monday, Sept. 29, at 5:00 p.m. in Van Duzer Theatre.
A monstrous forest fire that won’t end is threatening this small lumber town. People are arriving from all over to help fight it, and they are changing the town from within.
ARCATA — Football occupies the focus of this week's sports schedule, taking its much-awaited turn in the home spotlight. Coach Rob Smith's Lumberjacks open league play this week under the lights in Redwood Bowl, taking on Western Washington at 6 p.m. Saturday.
Renewing a performing partnership that goes back more than a decade, violinist Terrie Baune and pianist Deborah Clasquin headline a program of works by Dmitri Shostakovich and other Eastern European composers of the Soviet era.
Arcata - Four Humboldt State University students, one from Redding, have been awarded $6,500 each in Dale M. Schoettler Scholarships that assist blind and visually impaired students across the California State University system.
Christy Laird (’77), entrepreneur of Rose Court Cottage and Arcata Stay, “The Lodging Network of Exceptional Accommodations," describes her alumni colleagues this way: “Entrepreneurial people with a multitude of different skills who share the HSU connection and a love affair with Arcata.”
Humboldt State University’s new hydrogen fueling facility is the first rural station on California’s ‘Hydrogen Highway,’ and a crucial link between renewable energy and transportation fuel that started with a handful of engineering students.
Virtuosic jazz tenor Donny McCaslin will grace the stage of the Fulkerson Recital Hall this Tuesday and follow up his trio’s free-flowing performance with a free workshop on Wednesday.
