On Saturday, Sept. 20, the Fifteenth Annual Day of Caring will kick off at Humboldt State University’s Art Quad at 8 a.m. HSU volunteers will join volunteers from the community to take part in this inspiring day of service. Hands-on projects for Day of Caring include dune restoration, emergency food box preparation, community gardening, native plant habitat restoration, painting, and organizing at various community agencies.
Arcata – The Crescent City headquarters of Redwood National and State Parks estimates it can save almost $8,000 in annual utility bills with energy conservation measures developed by a trio of environmental resources engineering students at Humboldt State University.
ARCATA — All six of Humboldt State's fall sports squads open the 2008 season this week with road events. Football, men's and women's soccer, men's and women's cross country, and volleyball, all travel for competition.
Beijing — Sue Woodstra, Humboldt State head coach and assistant coach for the U.S. Olympic Women’s Indoor Volleyball Team, helped lead the national squad to a silver medal finish on Saturday.
When examining ideas like world ecological degradation and an impending dark age it’s comforting to know there’s still a flickering light of hope at the end of the tunnel.
Students in the dance studio can peer out a bank of expansive windows to a redwood forest; students, staff and faculty can swim laps in an airy, light-filled space; and local sports fans can yell themselves silly from their stadium-style seat in the expanded gymnasium.
A faculty and staff exhibition showcasing the talent of the artists who teach and work in Humboldt State University’s Art Department will be featured at the First Street Gallery in Old Town, Eureka. The exhibit will run from Aug. 26 through Sept. 21, with an artists reception on Sept. 6.
Arcata - Local retiree Ken Hoard is gleeful when he says, “I was given a second chance on life.” About three years ago, he underwent triple bypass surgery at St. Joseph Hospital. “It turned out very successfully,” he says. He felt tremendous gratitude for the nurses and technicians. “I’m a real fan of nurses.”
As students begin fall classes, Soprano Kamala Stroup Rocher, HSU Class of ’91, returns to campus for a voice recital featuring the works of Debussy, Strauss, Mozart and Verdi.
Arcata - Jessie Misha Cretser-Hartenstein traveled back to Humboldt County from the Middle East and Vanessa Vasquez is taking time off from grad school, both of them inspired to help organize the Fourth Annual Organic Planet Festival in Eureka.
Arcata – Humboldt State Vice President of Advancement Rob Gunsalus has named Patrick Cleary, President of Lost Coast Communications, interim general manager of the University’s radio station, KHSU-FM, with immediate effect.
Arcata - Humboldt State University and the Schatz Energy Research Center will conduct a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Thursday, Sept. 4, at 11:00 a.m. for the new Hydrogen Fueling Station that produces and dispenses clean hydrogen fuel for a hydrogen-powered Toyota Prius.
Fútbol is wildly popular in Spain. You know, fútbol, that game with a soccer ball the entire world plays without cease, working itself into a universal frenzy every four years over crowning the sport’s global champion. Football, on the other hand, is not quite as popular in Spain. You know, football, that game where big, strong guys ram into each other and toss around an oblong ball on a 100-yard field.
Although official head counts won't be in until September's campus-wide census, preliminary reports anticipate a record number of students will grace HSU's campus this fall.
Seth Powell walked for nearly two months along the Californian coast bearing only his backpack. His mission was to travel roughly 1,000 miles on foot to reach Humboldt State University in time for the first day of class. On July 26, nearly a month ahead of schedule, he arrived at his destination. "After 64 days I have made it to the town of Arcata, my new hood! My last day of walking was a long one, I clocked in 21 miles, walking from the farm in Loleta to the grassy lawn of Humboldt State University," writes Powell on his blog, http://mindfulroots.blogspot.com/.
The Campus Center for Appropriate Technology (CCAT), Humboldt State’s demonstration home for sustainable living, recently sent former co-director, Jeffrey Steuben to accept its award for Best Practices in Student Sustainability Program for the California State University (CSU).
Arcata - Rebecca Menten, a Humboldt State graduate student in the Energy, Environment and Society program, has been awarded a prestigious Switzer Environmental Fellowship worth $15,000.
Arcata - Humboldt State University is helping to meet the nationwide demand for thousands of natural resource professionals, including forestry experts, as baby boomers retire in swelling numbers at both the federal and state levels.
Associate Vice President Mike Reilly has accepted a position as Associate Director with the Council of Presidents in Washington state. His last day at Humboldt State will be Sept. 12.
Arcata – Humboldt State University will host formal ceremonies on Thursday, Aug. 28, to inaugurate its new Veterans Enrollment and Transition Services (V.E.T.S.) program, a major expansion of aid to veterans that has been assembled in partnership with leading veterans’ agencies in the region and statewide.
By the end of fall semester solar panels, signage, and student art will adorn Music Building A (the Old Music Building) thanks to the Humboldt Energy Independence Fund (HEIF), a student funded energy initiative.
Arcata - Humboldt State University is offering an array of 13 courses online for Fall 2008, including AIE 345, American Indians in Higher Education, taught by Suzanne Burcell, Director of American Indian Education and Associate Director of Indian Economic and Community Development.
Arcata – With 20 players returning from last year’s team and a talented group of incoming freshman, Humboldt State head women’s soccer coach Andy Cumbo is ready to welcome back his squad for another season.
