Happy Wednesday everyone. I hope you are having a terrific week. I was fortunate to travel to Shasta College with two colleagues, Tim Downs, Interim Chief of Staff, and Peggy Metzger, Director of Financial Aid & Executive Director of Enrollment Management to explore opportunities to further partner with Shasta College. It led to great discussions about opportunities for additional articulation agreements, concurrent enrollment opportunities, and working together to solve workforce gaps in the region.

Faculty and Staff Green Lunchtime Today!

Bring your lunch and join your colleagues today, Wednesday, April 19 from 12-1 pm in FH 166, the Green & Gold Room, for the last Green Lunchtime for the year. The topic is Climate Cafés with Jacqueline Mayrand, Clinical Coordinator and Staff Psychotherapist, Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS). The climate crisis can bring up intense, dysregulated, or overwhelming emotions or conversely lead to a protective turning away. Learn what a Climate Café is and how it can be a space for sharing thoughts, feelings, and experiences around the climate crisis. 

Green Lunchtimes are a way to help faculty and staff move toward sustainability by providing opportunities for them to step outside the boundaries of their disciplines and departments, talk to each other, share ideas and insights, and see themselves as essential participants in a shared vision. If you have ideas for next year please email Jennifer Ortega, Sustainability Fellow at jmm26@humboldt.edu.

ideaFest Registration Reminder

The Office of Research, Cal Poly Humboldt Library, and Marketing & Communications would like to invite you to participate in the 10th Annual ideaFest! Students, faculty, and staff from Cal Poly Humboldt will showcase research, live performances, creative projects, and more. The 2023 ideaFest will be held on Friday, May 5, 2023. Click here for more information or to sign up. This will be a great venue for students to display previously presented professional posters or multimedia presentations at this campus-wide research & creative activities symposium. The deadline to register for ideaFest is Monday, April 24, 2023. Please note that MarCom will be available to print posters free of charge prior to the event. If you have any questions please contact the Office of Research & Sponsored Programs Foundation at (707) 826-4189 or email ideafest@humboldt.edu. 

Congratulations to the Humboldt- ERFSA 2023 Grant Award Recipients

Humboldt-ERFSA Executive Committee announced last week the winners of this year’s grant awards supporting the professional development of faculty and staff who demonstrate outstanding promise in their first five years of employment. Thanks to the generosity of donors to the Humboldt-ERFSA small grant program, $6,000 was able to be awarded to 10 worthy applicants. These outstanding projects include students in creative and innovative ways. They include: 

• Morgan Barker, Sustainability Librarian, University Library. Project: “Sustainable Libraries Initiative Certification for Cal Poly Humboldt.”

• Stephanie Corigliano, Lecturer, Religious Studies. Project: “Research and Study of Tibetan Buddhism at Gomde California’s Buddhist Studies Summer Program.” 

• Caglar Dolek, Assistant Professor, Sociology. Project: “Marginalized Poor & Radical Imagination: A Teaching Development Project.”

• Tawanda Gara, Assistant Professor, Environmental Science and Management. Project: “Retrieving tree species diversity via leaf functional traits using remote sensing.”

• Anna E. Goldman, Museum Curator, Wildlife. Project: “Borneo Field Course: the importance of natural history and how it incorporates ecology and conservation.”

• Sarah Lasley, Assistant Professor, Art + Film. Project: “Climate Control – an experimental documentary on climate anxiety/dissonance and its intersection with recent advancements in the use of AI chatbots.”

• Jennifer Marlow, Assistant Professor, Environmental Science and Management. Project: “44 Feet: Vulnerabilities, Opportunities, and Strategies for Managing Risk from Sea-Level Rise to Humboldt Bay’s Spent Nuclear Fuel Site.”

• Samantha Puentes, Senior Accountant & Financial Analyst, Accounting Department. Project: “Certified Management Accountant Certification.”

• Tani Sebro, Assistant Professor, Politics and International Studies. Project: “Scholars and Activists at Risk in Burma Studies.”

• Ho Yi Wan, Assistant Professor, Wildlife. Project: “Increasing the use of trail cameras and spatial data to improve undergraduate and graduate education and research in wildlife science.”

Have a great rest of your day.

Jenn Capps