Recycled Plastic for 3D Printers
This project involves funding for a shredder, filament extruder, and 3D printer to be integrated to form a streamlined plastic recycling system. This system demonstrates the recovery and reuse of PETE (type #1 plastic) alongside other plastics.
Intercollegiate Climate Conference
The Environmental Studies Club proposed a two-day Northern California Intercollegiate Climate Community Conference, which aims to bring together students, faculty, and staff from universities and colleges that often feel isolated. The conference seeks to address the urgent need for collaborative efforts to tackle climate change, and to provide a platform for sharing knowledge, experiences, and best practices among the participants. Each invited school will be requested to bring a presentation on their campus climate initiatives, accompanied by a faculty member and art.
Truck for OhSNAP!
In spring of 2023, Michelle Long submitted a proposal for general funds for the continued support of OhSNAP!. Upon the committee requesting a more specific project, OhSNAP! requested funding for a new, hybrid vehicle to allow them better transportation of resources around the greater humboldt area. Over the summer 2023, OhSNAP!
Indigenous Foods Festival
This idea requested funding for the second Indigenous Foods Festival (IFF) at Cal Poly Humboldt, which previously had 350 attendees. The Indigenous Foods Festival is focused on uplifting Indigenous Food Sovereignty across many regions. This inspiring event centered around the important work that folks across communities are doing to elevate Indigenous knowledges and foodways.
Place Based Learning Practices
This project is an extension of the Ethnobotanical Mapping project (See project page here) and is thus sharing funds. From Karley Rojas, 05/03/2024- "The ‘Place Based Learning Practices Project: a diptych case study of more than human relationality at the tribal and western institutional interface’ is my thesis project, within the Environment and Community graduate program which has adopted the Ethnobotanical Mapping project within its scope.
OZZI Behavior & Barriers Research
This submitter proposed to bring five OZZI box drop n' go bins across campus to increase the return rate of OZZI boxes. The proposed budget for this project was $15,000. The committee decided after careful consideration and communication with Chartwells and other campus entities to not fund the addition of more OZZI box collection receptacles because the company was concurrently planning a $50k investment in upgrading the OZZI program to include three new box receptacles and to integrate C-Card functionality for tracking OZZI tokens.
Green Space Pocket Prairies
This project proposal seeks to take a radical approach to landscaping by establishing guiding principles that challenge human-centric relationships with the “landscape”. The selected preliminary sites for this project were regions that have been proven difficult to maintain as lawns, making them ideal for this conversion. These areas are difficult to access with equipment, have smaller/more irregular shaped lawns, and where leisure would not be preferred (damp and shady).
CCAT Chickens
This project allocated $10,000 to have CCAT raise live chickens on campus. This project's purpose is to allow students at Cal Poly Humboldt have the opportunity to learn about food waste, sustainable agriculture, appropriate technology and livestock care. CCAT will obtain food waste on campus and use it as food for the chickens, then use manure produced to create compost for further agricultural projects.
Paul Michael (Mike) Atienza
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Paul Michael (Mike) Leonardo Atienza
Associate Professor
FALL 2026
CRGS 401: Digital Justice, Digital Divide
CRGS 482: Internship
SUMMER 2026
ES 105: Introduction to Ethnic Studies
SPRING 2026
CRGS 430: Decolonizing Genders and Sexualities?
ES 203: Asian American Images and Pop Cultures
FALL 2025
CRGS 321: Trans* Lives & Theory
CRGS 331: Radical Futures: Race, Environment, and Social Justice
CRGS 482: Internship
ES 302: Asian American Studies, Introduction
SUMMER 2025
ES 105: Introduction to Ethnic Studies
SPRING 2025
CRGS 430: Decolonizing Genders and Sexualities?
CRGS 482: Internship
CRGS 485: Professional Development
CRGS 491: Mentoring
ES 108: Asian American Lives
FALL 2024
CRGS 108: Power/Privilege: Gender and Race, Sex, Class
CRGS 331: Radical Futures: Race, Environment, and Social Justice
CRGS 482: Internship
SPRING 2023
CRGS 430: Decolonizing Genders and Sexualities?
CRGS 482: Internship
FALL 2023
CRGS 480: Special Topics in CRGS - Intersectionality in STEM
CRGS 482: Internship
ES 302: Asian American Studies, Introduction
SPRING 2023
CRGS 430: Decolonizing Genders and Sexualities?
CRGS 482: Internship
FALL 2022
ES 302: Asian American Studies, Introduction
WS 106: Introduction to Women’s Studies
WS 303: Anticolonial Women’s Movements
Maxwell Schnurer
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