Arcata - Seven Humboldt State University students from the Renewable Energy Student Union (RESU) have won national recognition for a design project to monitor wind resources.
Madam Liu Yuelian, Provost and Vice President of Xi’an International Studies University (XISU) in the People’s Republic of China, will visit Humboldt State University from May 4 to May 7. She will meet with President Rollin Richmond, Provost Robert Snyder, other academic leaders and interested faculty to discuss a broad range of topics on academic cooperation and collaboration.
ARCATA — It’s only been three weeks since the new Humboldt State football coaching staff first glimpsed its players in pads. And while first-year head coach Rob Smith would certainly like to have more time with the group, he’s generally pleased with having made their acquaintance.
This Week’s Games: Humboldt State softball will again host the California Collegiate Athletic Association Championship Tournament, schedule for Thursday through Saturday. The event begins with CSU Stanislaus and Cal State San Bernardino facing off at 1 p.m., followed by HSU taking on CSU Monterey Bay at 3:30 p.m. All games will be played on the HSU Softball Field.
This Week’s Event: Humboldt State resumes its season with competition at the Western Intercollegiate Rowing Association Championships, scheduled for Saturday and Sunday on Lake Natoma, near Rancho Cordova. More than 30 programs from all three NCAA affiliations will participate.
This Week’s Meet: Humboldt State’s second year of membership in the California Collegiate Athletic Association culminates this week when the Lumberjacks participate in the CCAA Track & Field Championships, hosted by Cal State Los Angeles. Competition in the decathlon and heptathlon open the meet Thursday, both of those events concluding early Friday. The rest of Friday’s schedule features heats and selected finals on the track and in the field, with the bulk of the finals scheduled for Saturday.
ARCATA - Lizzy Prescott struck out 13 and gave up only one hit, leading Humboldt State to a 5-1 victory over Chico State that clinched the California Collegiate Athletic Association title for HSU on Friday.
The busiest weekend of the HSU Music Department spring performance calendar begins at 8 p.m. on Thursday, May 1 with the student AM Jazz Band playing jazz classics from the Big Band 1930s through the fusion era of the 1970s.
Arcata – Humboldt State University will conduct dedications in early May to commemorate outstanding individual contributions to the University and the community.
Kalindi Rogers and Erin Slattery have nothing personal against burritos. Like countless generations of students before them, the two have sampled more than their fair share of taco truck offerings.
If recycling and re-using shopping bags just don’t feel like enough anymore, you’re in luck. Your next steps are now online. Following recipe-like directions, you can build your own super-efficient rocket stove. Or install a solar heated shower. Or mix your own paint.
Arcata – Humboldt State University’s Natural History Museum has received a $10,000 grant from the Fortuna-based McLean Foundation to buttress the museum’s partnerships with area teachers and schools.
WALNUT CREEK, Calif. (April 21) – Humboldt State, which clinched a conference playoff berth last weekend, has been named the host institution for the 2008 California Collegiate Athletic Association (CCAA) Softball Championships, commissioner Robert J. Hiegert announced on Monday.
It started in a classroom a decade ago, to become one of the most anticipated and popular events on the annual HSU performance schedule. Beginning April 24, the HSU Ten Minute Play festival celebrates its tenth birthday with this year’s slate of imaginative comedies, dramas and fantasies created and performed by HSU students.
Arcata - Humboldt State University wildlife major Lindsey Payne believes all people should take up volunteer service at some point in their lives.
“You get to learn a lot about yourself, and you have fun doing it,” she says.
Earth Day is coming, but at HSU, one day is not enough. We’ve rounded up a variety of events the students at HSU have organized of this celebration. Earth Day goes back to the late ‘60s as a United Nations, and eventually a global environmental teach-in.
Got cable? Professor Greg Crawford gives a televised presentation on the Research Channel on April 27, 2008. The program will air four times that day: 1:00 a.m., 7:00 a.m., 1:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m. (Pacific time).
ARCATA - After sweeping last weekend’s four-game series against UC San Diego, Humboldt State Softball continues to top the NCAA Division II West Region poll for the fourth week in a row while remaining at the No. 6 slot in the National Fastpitch Coaches Association Division II Top 25 poll released Wednesday.
Students at Humboldt State University have the opportunity between now and April 25 to donate a portion of their meal points as part of a regional food drive organized by the HSU Service Learning Center. Donated meal points will be used to purchase food from the school’s vendor, and these relief food supplies will be delivered directly to Food for People, the Food Bank for Humboldt County.
Dr. Kenneth Fulgham, HSU Professor of Rangeland Resources, and D.E. Coultrap, a former HSU graduate student, are among the co-authors of an article about western juniper in the inaugural edition of Invasive Plant Science and Management magazine, published by the Weed Science Society of America under the auspices of the University of California, Davis.
Arcata — Humboldt State's Environmental Resources Engineering students once again lived up to the tradition of academic excellence -- this time in the field of mathematics modeling.
This Week’s Event: In a way, the season begins for the HSU women’s rowing team when they travel to Vancouver, Wash., for Saturday’s Northwest Collegiate Rowing Conference Championships. The regatta is actually the first postseason-type event for 2008, with three and possibly four more to follow in the next month. The Jacks will compete for individual boat and team titles at the NCRC event, which includes six other schools.
This Week’s Meet: With the advertising slogan, “Where The World’s Best Athletes Compete!,” the annual Mt. SAC Relays in Walnut promise elite competition. Among those elite athletes participating in this year’s event will be four Lumberjacks who have established national prominence in the NCAA Division II. That group begins competition Thursday in the Puma Collegiate Invitational session, with two athletes involved, and the other two will be in action Friday. …Several HSU athletes will travel over the mountain to Redding to do battle at the Shasta Invitational hosted by Shasta College. The meet gets underway at 11 a.m. Saturday.
This Week’s Games: Humboldt State softball continues its California Collegiate Athletic Association season, but takes a break from hosting for the first time in two weeks. Instead, the Jacks travel to Rohnert Park to take on Sonoma State University for Friday and Saturday doubleheaders. Friday’s action begins at 1 p.m. and first pitch is at 11 a.m. on Saturday.
