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.
ARCATA – Heading towards the final push, four of Humboldt State's fall sports programs enjoy the benefit of playing in front of the home crowds this weekend. Volleyball gets the action started when its hosts a league match on Friday, and keeps it going with another Saturday.
When a contestant on the television game show _Wheel of Fortune_ spins and lands on the dreaded bankrupt space, a gloomy slide-whistle sounds a forlorn note. Right now, if the American economy were a game show, that bankrupt sound would be repeating ad infinitum.
A king, mad with jealousy, and a kingdom thrown into chaos. A beautiful queen, imprisoned and left for dead. A foundling child, left on the wild shore of a distant and now enemy country.
Arcata – When word spread at Humboldt State University that the Coast Guard had towed a stranded Chinese junk into Humboldt Bay Oct. 4, many members of the campus community perked up their ears.
Arcata — KRFH-AM and _The Lumberjack_, Humboldt State's student-run media outlets, are hosting a forum on Monday, Oct. 13, 6-8 p.m., in the University Center's Banquet Room with the six candidates vying for Arcata's three city council seats. The event is an opportunity for students to share their concerns with the future of city government.
What the calendar calls Columbus Day the Multicultural Center calls the first day of Indigenous Peoples’ Week. The MCC will be hosting a wide gamut of festivities and educational events starting Monday, Oct. 13 through Friday Oct. 16.
Arcata – The October 3 pipe bomb hoax that disrupted a corner of the Humboldt State University was an accidental occurrence, but investigation of the September 23 hoax continues, according to the University Police Department.
The Oct. 2 test of Humboldt State University’s Emergency Alert-Information System generated 4,676 text messages, dwarfing the 752 transmitted during the test last spring.
ARCATA — Everybody's in action, but four of the six Humboldt State fall sports will be going on the road to compete this week. Volleyball and football travel for league action, while the men's and women's cross country squads race their final non-postseason events. The men's and women's soccer teams share the home spotlight in Redwood Bowl this weekend.
Arcata - Humboldt State University has acquired two properties on and off campus to bolster student and educational support services, as freshman enrollment grows for the third straight year.
HSU has set another record for freshmen enrollment with 1,191 registering for the fall semester, a 13 percent jump over last year's count of 1,051. Total university enrollment today is 7,800 versus 7,773 in 2007.
