Student Patrick Wood Geography

Congratulations to HSU Geography major Patrick Wood, 2016 Winner of the North American Cartographic Information Society (NACIS) Student Map Competition! The competition included 19 entries (12 graduate students, 7 undergraduates), traveling from 9 university programs including the University of Wisconsin, Madison, Penn State University, University of Oregon, University College London, and the University of Toronto. The prestigious award includes a cash prize of $500, and was presented at the annual NACIS conference this year in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Over 320 private sector, academic, and public sector cartographers gathered this year for 5 days of presentations, workshops, and networking.

Student Derrick Murrietta Theatre, Film & Dance

The 2016 CSU Media Arts Festival was held on Saturday, November 5th in Los Angeles. Derrick Murrietta, student at Humboldt State took 1st place for his entry, titled "10,000 Steps" in the Short Screenplay category.

Faculty Armeda Reitzel Communication

Armeda Reitzel was elected Chair of the Board of Directors for Access Humboldt, a non-profit, community media organization with public, educational, and governmental channels. This is her fourth consecutive year to serve as chair of the organization.

Faculty Rosemary Sherriff Geography

Rosemary Sherriff co-authored a new paper in Ecological Applications titled “Tree-ring isotopes reveal drought sensitivity in trees killed by spruce beetle outbreaks in south-central Alaska” that is part of an on-going collaborative project evaluating climate change and disturbance effects in white spruce forests in southwest and south-central Alaska.
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/eap.1365/full

Faculty Joshua Frye Communication

Joshua Frye recently participated in an advanced community-based social marketing (CBSM) workshop held at City Hall in Bellevue, Washington. The workshop provided a forum for collaborative brainstorming and application of community-based social marketing strategies to help government agencies build more effective behavior change interventions. During the workshop, Dr. Frye worked with an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Community Involvement Coordinator, and others, to develop a CBSM behavior-change intervention program targeting ethnic minority groups in the Seattle metropolitan area who are consuming seafood from the Duwamish River which contain high levels of PCBs.

Faculty Hunter Fine Communication

Dr. Fine has had a book review published in the Popular Culture Studies Journal.

Fine, Hunter H. “Book Review: Its Always Sunny and Philosophy: The Gang Gets Analyzed” Ed. Roger Hunt and Robert Arp, and “Book Review: Orange is the New Black and Philosophy: Last Exit from Litchfield” Ed. Richard Greene and Rachel Robinson-Greene. Journal of Popular Culture Studies 4.1/2 (2016): 440-45.

Faculty Gil Cline Music

HSU Music Department Professor Dr. Gil Cline (3rd year, FERP) recently made two notable musical performance appearances.

On July 17 he performed on Alcatraz Island, San Francisco, for a recording session of 19th Century historic American music, using an historic 1860s American rotary-valve soprano cornet and also Civil War - era bugle. “Mustering” with a re-enactors 18-member brass band, in Federal uniforms portraying the US 3rd Artillery Band stationed there in the 1870s, a CD is soon to be produced and is to be available to the public at the Alcatraz Island Gift Shop.

On October 2, Cline and his HSU-based Trumpet Consort von Humboldt, with five current students, were featured guest artists at a concert with Jefferson Baroque in Ashland, Oregon. Using replica 1667 natural (no-valve; the historic type) trumpets, and a rope-tension drum, TCvH performed a half-hour concert, from memory and in costume, of Baroque and late Renaissance music -- with an encore of War’s “Low Rider.”

Additionally, TCvH has received an early invitation to perform in New York City in July 2017 for the third-ever international Historic Brass Society Symposium. In 2012, TCvH was the surprise “hit” at the 2nd Symposium, attended by leading performers and scholars from around the world.

Student Brittany Stuckey, Sunny Short-Miller, Elizabeth Phillips, and Michael S. Bruner Communication

Alumni Brittany Stuckey and Sunny Short-Miller; CAHSS Research Fellow Elizabeth Phillips; and COMM Professor Michael S. Bruner published an article, entitled "Lagos, Mythos, and Globalization," in the Journal of Communication and Media Research (October 2016).

Faculty Teresa Stanley Art

Art Professor, Teresa Stanley, has been featured in an article in The Woven Tale Press, where she speaks about her work and and the connection between art and science.
http://www.thewoventalepress.net/2016/10/17/interview-teresa-stanley/

Staff Armeda Reitzel Communication

The National Communication Association has chosen to showcase Dr. Armeda Reitzel's syllabus for her Nonverbal Communication (Comm 324) course. Her syllabus appears on the organization's website for members to review.

Student Monica Moreno-Espinoza, Stephen Cunha Geography

Geography senior Monica Moreno-Espinoza and Professor Stephen Cunha presented papers at the 79th Meeting of the Association of Pacific Coast Geographers (APCG) meeting at Portland State University. For Mediterranean Refugee Crisis: Italian Student Attitudes Towards Political Migrants, Moreno-Espinoza surveyed 844 students from eight universities across Italy. The findings reveal positive sentiment towards political refugees, strong opinions towards other EU countries’ responsibility for assisting Italy in aiding refugees, and mixed attitudes on governmental intervention of refugee flow.

As presiding APCG President, Cunha’s Presidential Address documented 25 years of land protection efforts

Faculty Kayla Begay Native American Studies

HSU Native American Studies Asst. Professor Kayla Begay is set to present at the Conference on Endangered Native American Languages at the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia, PA, October 13-15. Begay presented "Teaching Wailaki: Archives, Interpretation, and Collaboration" along with Justin D. Spence and Cheryl Tuttle, Round Valley High School. More information is available at https://amphilsoc.org/conference/translatingconference.

Faculty Rae Robison Theatre, Film & Dance

Rae Robison was one of several "local luminaries" asked to perform as the Narrator at Ferndale Repertory in their production of Rocky Horror Picture Show. Robison performed to a packed house on Oct. 1, 2016. Upcoming productions feature other HSU staff, faculty and alumni.

Faculty Alison Holmes Politics

Alison Holmes, International Studies was an invited participant in a faculty development roundtable at the International Studies Association - West, Regional conference in Pasadena, CA.

Faculty Alison Holmes Politics

Alison Holmes was reelected to a fourth term to the Management Committee of the Transatlantic Studies Association at their annual conference which took place in Plymouth in the United Kingdom in July.

Faculty Janelle Adsit, AJ McGough, Angela Compton, Bri Lucero English

Janelle Adsit presented "Teaching the Undergraduate Literary Magazine" at the Creative Writing Studies Organization conference in Asheville, NC. The presentation discussed innovations associated with Toyon Multilingual Journal of Literature and Art (www.toyonliterarymagazine.org). Integral to the presentation was research conducted by English majors AJ McGough, Angela Compton, and Bri Lucero during the Spring 2016 semester, supported by the Undergraduate Research/Creative Activity Fellowship program.

Staff Benjamin Funke Art

Artist and HSU staff member, Benjamin Funke will be speaking about his work at the Morris Graves Museum of Art. The event will take place Sunday, October 2nd at 2 p.m. There will be a tour of his current installation in the Sculpture Garden at the museum. View the event: http://www.northcoastjournal.com/humboldt/art-talk-with-ben-funke/Event?oid=3938118

Student Gabriella Jarnaghan and Ty’ithreeha Allen

HSU students Gabriella Jarnaghan and Ty’ithreeha Allen have each been awarded $10,000 scholarships as part of the Rodney T. Mathews Jr. scholarship offered by the Morongo Band of Mission Indians. Jarnaghan is a Business Administration sophomore and Allen is a Child Development sophomore minoring in American Indian Education and Psychology. The Lumberjack profiled the students here: http://thelumberjack.org/2016/09/16/hsu-native-american-students-win-morongo-scholarship/

Faculty Matthew Derrick and Rosemary Sherriff Geography

Matthew Derrick and Rosemary Sherriff, Geography Department, are taking over as editors (co-editors) of the California Geographer, a long-standing peer-reviewed journal that publishes articles on all aspects of California geography and beyond. There will be a new format that includes not only geographic scholarship, education, and book reviews, but also welcomes non-scholarly essays, photo essays, and geo-visualizations.

Faculty Armeda Reitzel Communication

Armeda Reitzel is one of the co-authors of an article titled "Setting an agenda for stakeholder research to field test the NCA learning outcomes in communication" that was published in Communication Education in August 2016. This article featured work done as part of the National Communication Association's multiyear Learning Outcomes in Communication grant project.