The Campus Learning Commons Committee would like to invite students, faculty and staff to attend a special presentation by Dr. Joan Lippincott at 11:45 in Goodwin Forum on September 28, 2007.
Arcata - Humboldt State has joined with the Arcata Police Department in a year-long, $300,000 California Highway Patrol-led educational effort to reduce the number of deaths and injuries in DUI accidents on the streets and highways around the University.
Students who contact the newly-refurbished facility early in the day will receive an appointment later that same day if a visit cannot be arranged on the spot.
Arcata - “What I love about soil is how it unifies terrestrial life and scientific disciplines,” wrote Humboldt State University student Rosemary Records in an essay that has won her the $1,000 Paul J. Zinke Memorial Scholarship from the California Forest Soils Council (CFSC).
Arcata – The Disney Wildlife Conservation Fund has awarded $23,600 to Humboldt State University’s Micaela Szykman Gunther, Assistant Professor of Wildlife Management, to conduct genetic research of the critically endangered African wild dog.
Arcata – Humboldt State University Alumnus Robert C. Thomas (’85), Professor of Geology, University of Montana -Western, has received a 2007 Distinguished Service Award from the Geological Society of America, a scientific society founded in 1888 that today boasts nearly 21,000 members in more than 90 countries.
Arcata – Humboldt State University economist Erick Eschker and a group of his students are probing Humboldt County zoning practices for their impact on property values, a detailed analysis that will augment the wealth of data available on the new Humboldt Real Estate economics web site created by the University’s Department of Economics
Arcata – Humboldt State University’s Department of Mathematics will host C. Edward Sandifer, Professor of Mathematics at Western Connecticut State University, when he delivers the 50th Kieval Lecture on Sept. 27 and commemorates the 300th birthday of the 18th century Swiss polymath Leonhard Paul Euler (pronounced “Oiler”).
Humboldt State University’s First Street Gallery presents two new exhibitions by HSU alums, “The Vanishing Point: Paintings by Erin Whitman,” August 24 through November 4, and “Doorway to Darkness: Illustrations by Mariko Pratt,” August. 24 through September 23.
In a sweeping expansion, Humboldt State University has signed ambitious accords with 17 institutions of higher learning in the People’s Republic of China that will enable Chinese students to complete their sophomore and junior years at the Arcata campus.
Adrianna Bayer, scheduled to complete her master’s degree in Literature this year at Humboldt State University, has won three distinguished academic honors worth a grand total of $11,000.
Four university committees are shifting from the development of plans to implementation strategies and training timetables as Humboldt State enters the second year of the Accessible Technology Initiative (ATI), the California State University mandate to comply with state and federal statutes that require equal access for the disabled to information technology resources.
Mark Colwell, HSU Scholar of the Year and Professor of Wildlife Management, will deliver a free lecture, "Wintering Sandpipers and Breeding Plovers: Conservation based on Monitoring Individuals," on Wed., Sept. 12, at 5:00 p.m. in Van Duzer Theatre. A dinner will follow at 6:30 p.m. in the University Center Banquet Room. Information is available at 826-5194.
HSU alumni Alli Minch (‘92, ‘94) and Byron Turner (‘88, ‘92) are matching up to $1 million in donations for their dream Oasis Project, a violence recovery community to be home-based in Humboldt County that will provide sustained care to women and children who are survivors of domestic crime.
For the first time Humboldt State University will welcome a group of 16 Chinese students as regular HSU students participating in a unique dual degree program. Coming from Xian, the ancient capital of China, the 16 will arrive in Arcata August 13. They are the first group representing a collaborative venture between Humboldt State University and Xian International Studies University (XISU), in Xi'an, China's ancient capital.
Humboldt State University will host students and the community at the 2007 Leadership Conference, Ignite: Lighting the Passion Within, Thursday through Sunday, October 4-7. Coinciding with the conference will be a commemorative celebration of the 20th Anniversary of HSU's Graduation Pledge of Social and Environmental Responsibility will coincide with the conference.
A group of internationally-recognized master drummers, dancers and singers, most of them Cuban natives, provides a week-long series of workshops at Humboldt State July 21-28, open to the public.
Alexander Eaton, a masters candidate in Environmental Systems at Humboldt State University, has won a $15,000 Fellowship from the Robert and Patricia Switzer Foundation, Belfast, Maine, in support of his research as Executive Director of the International Renewable Resources Institute (IRRI) in Mexico City.
Humboldt State Universitys College of Natural Resources and Sciences (CNRS) has named Lisa Perry, Education Director of the California Forest Products Commission, to serve as Campus Recruiter and bolster the ranks of ethnically diverse students in natural resource careers.
Summer Preview, Humboldt State University's annual summer Open House, is scheduled Friday, July 13, from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., offering prospective students, families and guests opportunities to tour the campus, explore HSUs facilities and residence halls, meet faculty, and get information about the university's academic majors, student activities, and on-campus services.
Humboldt State University First Street Gallery presents Young Alumni 2007: Works by Recent HSU Graduates, on exhibit July 5 through August 5. The Gallery bills the exhibition as clear evidence of the excellent career preparation HSU provides art majors.
Six Yurok students in various academic disciplines were recently named as recipients of the 16th annual Maggie Griffin Scholarship at Humboldt State for the 2007-08 academic year. Jesika Mitchell, a current sophomore majoring in Social Work and 2006 graduate of Hoopa Valley High School, will receive $1,500. In addition to a strong academic performance her freshman year, Mitchell was a member of the HSU womens rugby team.
Chinese undergraduates as regular HSU students who will reside here for two years, participating in a unique dual degree program. Coming from Xi’an, the ancient capital of China, they are the first group representing a collaborative venture between Humboldt State University and Xi’an International Studies University (XISU), in Xi'an, China's ancient capital.