Achievements

Sam Armanino

Journalism & Mass Communication

Journalism Major Sam Armanino was selected as one of four students across the state for a California Press Foundation Internship. Through the highly competitive program, Armanino will be paid $2,500 to intern at the North Coast Journal during the Spring semester. The California Press Foundation provides grants to select students who demonstrate an exceptional interest in pursuing careers in the newspaper business in California. The students are required to pursue and secure the internship on their own. At the Journal, Armanino will work with HSU Journalism Alumnus Thadeus Greenson.

Leena Dallasheh

History

Leena Dallasheh presented a paper, "When U.S. Aid didn’t Come to The Rescue: Nazareth, the Israeli state and water politics," at the The Middle East Studies Association (MESA) Annual Meeting in Boston, MA.

Robert Cliver

History

Prof. Cliver published a chapter titled "Second Class Workers: Gender, Industry, and Locality in Workers' Welfare Provision in Revolutionary China" in the book The Habitable City in China: Urban History in the Twentieth Century, edited by Toby Lincoln and Xu Tao and published this month by Palgrave-Macmillan.

Chelsea Teale

Geography

Dr. Chelsea Teale, Geography, published “Wetlands of New Netherland” in the Hudson River Valley Review, relating colonial Dutch terms for wetlands to their modern-day US Fish and Wildlife classifications. Another paper also accepted for publication by New York History examines the uses and modifications of wetlands in pre-1800 agriculture. Geography major Dan Cooper (‘16) also worked as a research assistant under an Undergraduate Research & Creative Activities grant and continuing an Island Invasives and Eradication Programs database project by Dr. Teale that began at the University of Georgia Institute of Ecology.

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.

Derrick Murrietta

Dance, Music & Theatre

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.

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.

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

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.

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.