From first-generation college student at Highline College to president of Humboldt State University in Northern California, Dr. Tom Jackson knows a thing or two about what it takes to succeed in college.

Professor Ramesh Adhikari on the average cost of car insurance.

Allison Bronson, a Zoology instructor, comments on research that describes three creatures left their mark in time in an extraordinarily well-preserved fossil in Germany.

Under Newsom’s plan, the University of California and California State University would get a $1.1 billion funding increase, while the state would spend $4 billion over two years to build new student housing, $433 million to help turn Humboldt State University into a polytechnic campus and $115 million to develop degrees that would not require students to buy textbooks.

On Friday, Newsom detailed his ambitious $267.8 billion budget that would include hundreds of millions of dollars to transform HSU into a polytechnic university.

The plan also would provide significant funding to convert Humboldt State University into the CSU system’s third polytechnic campus.

River otter expert and enthusiast Jeff Black, a professor with Humboldt State University’s department of wildlife who has been monitoring river otter numbers for decades, said the public needn’t be overly concerned about otter attacks.

The worry over climate change and the future that it will bring.

HSU and GreenWave seaweed farm among many solutions to help save Northern California’s kelp forest.

Lori Dengler, a geophysicist and professor emeritus at Humboldt State University, comments on a findings could affect future local tsunami risk assessments for coastlines along California and beyond.

Exhibition featuring the paintings of Brooklyn-based artist Aaron Gilbert and the late painter Martin Wong, an HSU alumnus. Sparking an intergenerational dialogue, this exhibition focuses on two artists whose practices amplify the societal pressures of both their private lives and the New York communities they inhabit.

Humboldt State University’s Native American Studies Department and Save California Salmon recently launched a spring webinar series, “Traditional Ecological Knowledge,” a look at how tribes’ traditional fisheries and fire management practices could address environmental crises.

With a focus on workplace diversity, staffing practices and work environment, the research uses a web-based survey approach to examine categories such as family friendliness, salary/benefits and professional development opportunities, to name a few

HSU alumnus awarded Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship to further promote higher education in the Imperial Valley.

“When I eventually left my native Bay Area for college, I chose to attend Humboldt State University … My goal at my new home was simple: Be myself unapologetically, and recreate myself; to stop doing things that made me hate who I was, and become new,” recalls Dan Perez-Sornia.

“When people ask me about Humboldt, they should be prepared for a long answer. I could talk about positive Humboldt State news all day. Here are some things I have been sharing recently,” says President Tom Jackson, Jr.

Two-dozen national sororities will soon vote on a policy change that would open the door for more gender-nonbinary students to join — a sign of evolving attitudes around campus groups that have traditionally been restricted to women.

An earthquake doesn’t have to happen nearby. A tsunami can come from thousands of miles away.

The ancient creature likely used its six-foot-wide wingspan to move with “underwater flight.”

The 95-million-year-old fossil has paleontologists wondering if other ancient sharks could have also had peculiar body shapes.