Centers & Institutes
- Altruistic Personality & Prosocial Behavior Institute
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Founded in 1982 by Dr. Samuel Oliner & Dr. Pearl Oliner who recognized the need for more research into the areas of altruism & pro-social behavior.
- Center for Applied Social Analysis & Education
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CASAE is affiliated with the Practicing Sociology Master’s Program. It is designed to train Practice Track graduate student in program evaluation & other skills as well as to respond to community requests for questionnaire design, survey construction and data analysis.
- Center for Educational Excellence, Collaboration and Inquiry
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The Center’s purpose is to exemplify educational excellence through collaboration and educational inquiry that enhances the University’s ability to support professional practice and student learning at all levels in the North Coast region. Specifically the Center develops partnerships with schools and districts to promote cutting-edge professional practice and regional technology to strengthen teaching, learning, and professional development
- Institute for Cartographic Design
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Affiliated with the Department of Geography and its Kosmos Lab for teaching cartography, the Institute for Cartographic Design is intended to provide cartography students with a transition from theoretical to applied map design before graduation and to provide a centralized cartographic design service on campus specializing in cartographic and information design in all formats from paper to web to animation.
- Institute for Emerging Technologies in Learning
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Affiliated with the Department of Computing Science, the Institute studies and implements the use of multimedia and distance learning technologies within new learning environments, including university curricula, extended and distance education, continuing education for professionals and public school settings. Areas of implementation also include tele-medicine and health education.
- Institute for Forest Canopy Research
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The Institute for Forest Canopy Research is dedicated to research in forest canopy ecosystems, particularly in the Pacific Northwestern United States in old growth redwood forests, Douglas fir forests, montance pine and fir forests, and temperate coniferous rainforests ranging from Northern California to British Columbia. The structure and disturbance responses of insect communities in these complex forest habitats are of particulular interest.
- Institute for Industrial Technology
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The IIT, a student-started and student-run enterprise affiliated with the Industrial Technology Department, produces several items such as art easels, children’s art-easels, recycling bins, and other custom work. The IIT’s primary goal is to provide students with the opportunity to apply educational theories and concepts to a business enterprise.
- Institute for River Ecosystems
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The purpose of IRE is to foster preservaton of running water ecosystems and their watersheds through collaborative research, graduate education, and the dissemination and synthesis of information. Specifically, collaborative interactions are fostered through the forum of the Watershed Ecology Team (WET), which involves HSU faculty and graduate students, scientsts from federal and state agencies, and members of regional consulting firms, natural resource companies and Tribes.
- Institute for Spatial Analysis
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The Humboldt State University Institute for Spatial analysis (ISA) is a focal point for the advancement of spatial research, innovation and application. The ISA is dedicated to the expansion of spatial analysis methodologies across disciplines and the full spectrum of real world issues. We work closely with the public and private sector entities to achieve this goal.
- Institute for Study of Alternative Dispute Resolution
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ISADR is a conflict resolution training, education and research institute that offers professional mediation training through a certificate program in Extended Education. Thoroughout the year ISADR staff and faculty perform additional research, curriculum design, program suppot and community outreach services.
- Klamath Watershed Institute
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The Klamath Watershed Institute is intended to promote unbiased scholarly and scientific investigation in many subjects of interest in the Klamath basin and to provide policy analysis and make progress toward preserving, restoring and making sustainable the Klamath Basin’s natural resources.
- Northern California Institute of Marine Sciences
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NCIMS reflects the collaboration of the departments of Biology, Fisheries Biology and Oceanography. Its purpose is to facilitate interdisciplinary projects amoung faculty in the marine sciences and to foster the pursuit and dissemination of knowledge of marine systems with a focus on coastal northern California. It encourages effective collaboration amoung HSU faculty and students, professional marine scientists, agencies and organizations concerned with the investigation, management and/or conservation of the marine environment.
- Schatz Energy Research Center
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One of the foremost fuel cell development laboratories, SERC’s fuel cell systems have proven to be among the most reliable and efficient in the world.
HSU is equipped with a 8,500-square foot ceramics facility, which boasts a kiln room, throwing and hand building areas, a glaze room, a spray booth, and an outdoor kiln area for raku firings.