The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Humboldt State University will offer an array of courses this summer, from Trinidad to Garberville. Venues will include Redwood National Forest, Samoa’s speeder train in Samoa and a Crabs game at Arcata Ballpark.
This semester, students in Patricia DuRant’s engineering dynamics class had the chance to design and build their own robots using wheels, plastic gears and other self-designed parts.
Humboldt State University recently received a Silver Rating in STARS, a nationwide program that evaluates an institution’s programs and practices in sustainability. The rating places HSU among the nation’s leaders in sustainability.
Jacob Bloom, a Communication major, is the new Associated Student president after winning 55 percent of a run-off vote held May 1 and 2. Jennie Rose Saunders, an Environmental Policy major, is administrative vice president after winning 53 percent of the vote, and Juan Diaz-Infante, also an Environmental Policy major, is student affairs vice president winning a 60 percent majority.
Humboldt State NOW digs into the photographic archives as campus gets ready for the yearlong centennial celebration in the ’13-’14 academic year. Enjoy a look back every week as HS NOW features historical photos. Photos will also be added to the Scrolling Archive on the HSU Centennial webpage. And be sure to share your own memories and photos from campus at "humboldt.edu/100/share":http://humboldt.edu/100/share.
When a boat washed ashore in Crescent City in early April, HSU professor Lori Dengler was instrumental in confirming it as the first piece of debris from the March, 2011 Japanese tsunami to wash ashore in California.
Geography student Alina Taalman (’13) has won the Arthur Robinson Award for Best Printed Map in an annual competition hosted by the national Cartography and Geographic Information Society.
Humboldt State NOW digs into the photographic archives as campus gets ready for the yearlong centennial celebration in the ’13-’14 academic year. Enjoy a look back every week as HS NOW features historical photos. Photos will also be added to the Scrolling Archive on the HSU Centennial webpage. And be sure to share your own memories and photos from campus at "humboldt.edu/100/share":http://humboldt.edu/100/share.
Humboldt Symphony will perform its well-planned and rehearsed final concert of the year on May 10 and 12, with classics ranging from the 17th to the 20th centuries. But there will also be a surprise—even to conductor Paul Cummings.
The HSU University Singers and the Humboldt Chorale perform an evening of sacred music, including the Mass of the Children, on Sunday, May 12 at 8 p.m. in Fulkerson Recital Hall.
From the most famous Mexican bolero and a 1950s torch song to a Stevie Wonder classic, the HSU Jazz Orchestra reassembles jazz horizons in its May 11 concert at 8 p.m. in Fulkerson Recital Hall.
_This is the second story in an occasional series on HSU’s 2013-14 Centennial celebration._
When art professor Sarah Whorf first learned of HSU’s 2013-14 centennial celebration last year, she knew she had to get involved.
