Achievements

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.

Rosemary Sherriff

Geography

Rosemary Sherriff co-authored a paper with three alumni, Kelly Muth, Madelinn Schriver, and Rebecca Batzel, in the Journal of Biogeography on spruce response to climate change in Southwest Alaska. Weblink: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jbi.12968/epdf

James Floss

Communication

James Floss, Lecturer in the Communication Department, served on a panel for The Northern Humboldt Union High School District's Career Frontiers Program, in partnership with College of the Redwoods, the Decade of Difference Initiative, and Humboldt State University, who invited local high school students and their parents to a series of college information panels. He answered their questions and shared insights and perspectives about the differences between high school and college, along with his expectations for being successful in college. He also provided testimony from 25 of his current freshmen students on the rigors of being a college student.

Elizabeth ("Lizzie") Philips and Phil Santos

Communication

HSU students Elizabeth ("Lizzie") Philips and Phil Santos advanced to the top 16 at the U.S. Universities Western Regional Debate Championships held March 24-26 at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma WA.

USUW as it is called brought over 60 debating pairs representing 20 schools from Arkansas to Hawaii, from UCLA in Southern California to the University of British Columbia in B.C. Canada. Lizzie and Phil advanced to the quarterfinal round (the top 16) where they lost a close debate about whether or not the EU should pursue protectionist economic policies with the UK post "Brexit." The tournament is touted as a regional preview of the National Championships which the team will be attending next week.