Achievements

Russ Walls, Torrie Brickley, Matthew Derrick, Nick Perdue, and Merien Townsel

Geography

After a long but fun road trip down to San Diego, Humboldt came home with several top awards from the 71st Annual California Geographical Society meeting in San Diego. The 16 current students, along with alumni, who attended represented HSU Geography with strong enthusiasm and professionalism.

We had three first-place student awardees. Nathaniel Douglass won first place for the McKnight Professional Paper Award. Russ Walls won first place for the Geosystems Professional Paper Award. And Torrie Brickley won first place for the Student Cartography Competition. Douglass also won the David Lantis Scholarship, and several of our students landed Student Travel Awards. Well done!

Our faculty got in on the action, too. Professor Matthew Derrick was awarded the Friend of Geography Award, and he was elected CGS Vice President. Dr. Nick Perdue was elected to the organization’s board, as was Merien Townsel, our recent graduate and current Administrative Support Assistant.

Lydia Leonard-Rhodes & Emily Bushta

English

The Department of English is pleased to announce its first recipients of the English Scholarship for 2017-18. These scholarships, the result of a generous donation by an anonymous donor, will be awarded in the spring of each academic year for the following year. The first scholarships are being given to Emily Bushta and Lydia Leonard-Rhodes, who will each receive an award of $1000 for the upcoming academic year. This year’s scholarship awards will be presented at the English Department Commencement Reception on Saturday, May 13 at 2:30 p.m. in the Green and Gold Room of Founders Hall.

Ramona Bell

Critical Race, Gender & Sexuality Studies

On April 13, 2017, Ramona j.j. Bell,Assistant Professor in CRGS, presented the paper "Teaching Django and Other Hollywood Slave Narratives: Problems and Possibilities" for the panel Rearticulating Racism, Resistance and Citizenship in the Age of Neoliberalism, at the Popular Culture Association / American Culture Association (PCA/ACA) Annual Conference in San Diego, CA.

Christina Accomando

English

On April 13, 2017, Christina Accomando, Professor of English and CRGS, presented the paper "Patriotism, Protest, and Dog Whistling the National Anthem" for the panel Rearticulating Racism, Resistance and Citizenship in the Age of Neoliberalism, at the Popular Culture Association / American Culture Association (PCA/ACA) Annual Conference in San Diego, CA.

Brittany Stuckey

Communication

Brittany Stuckey (COMM & Studio Art, 2016) had her photograph, "Cucumbers," and "The Story of This Image" published in the Newsletter of the Association for the Study of Food and Society (ASFS).
April 2017, Issue 5, page 4.

Dr. Laura Johnson

Sociology

Dr. Laura Johnson, lecturer in Sociology and Environmental Studies, authored the cover story in the April 20th issue of the North Coast Journal, highlighting the environmental and socio-political power of Humboldt County's community food system.
Full article can be found here
http://www.northcoastjournal.com/humboldt/grab-it-by-the-horns/Content?…

Jamal Jones

English

Jamal Jones (English major, graduating in May) has been promoted to head coach of the varsity football team and teacher at Arcata High School. Jamal's achievement was recently recognized on KIEM-TV. View the full interview here: http://kiem-tv.com/video/jones-named-arcata-varsity-football-coach.

Dr. Renée M. Byrd

Sociology

Dr. Renée M. Byrd was awarded a 2017-18 American Association of University Women Publications Grant to finish her book, "Punishment's Twin: Carceral Logics, Abolitionist Critique and the Limits of Reform."

Janelle Adsit

English

Janelle Adsit has received a Presidents’ Council on Underserved Communities (PCUC) Professional Development Award to attend the 2017 NASPA Closing the Achievement Gap: Student Success in Higher Education Conference in Washington, D.C. this June.

Armeda C. Reitzel, Kim Vincent-Layton, and Pamela Dougherty

Communication

Dr. Armeda C. Reitzel, Chair of Communication, was the lead presenter of an education session titled "Yes, you can teach public speaking online! The process of redesigning a face-to-face public speaking course into a successful fully online course!" at the Online Learning Consortium Innovate 2017 Conference in New Orleans, LA on April 6, 2017. Her two HSU instructional designers, Kim Vincent-Layton (via Zoom) and Pam Dougherty (onsite), joined her in discussing the highlights of redesigning the fundamentals of speech communication course into an award-winning online offering.