Raina J. León is the author of two prize-wining poetry collections, Canticle of Idols, and Boogeyman Dawn. Her third book, dis(locate), will be released in 2016. She will read in the Library Fishbowl on Wednesday, March 4 at Noon. She is a founding ed . . .

Dr. Tom Gage, OLLI Instructor and Professor Emeritus in English, will be reading and signing his new book "Gulen's Dialogue on Education: a Caravanserai of Idea. A significant influence of this book derives from the HSU graduate course in the Masters . . .

Professor Benjamin will demonstrate and explain the secrets of rapid mental calculation.

When you taste a spoonful of chicken soup and conclude that the whole pot needs salt, that's an inference. To know if your inference is valid, you have to know hoe your one spoonful "the data" got taken from the pot. If there's a lot of salt sitting o . . .

"Given a closed, convex curve C in the plane, a billiard path on C is a polygon P inscribed in C such that, at each vertex v of P, the two edges of P incident with v make equal angles with the tangent line to C at v. (Intuitively, this is the path a b . . .

Dr. Paul Schacht is Professor of English at SUNY Geneseo, where he as also Director of Digital Thoreau, a public resource that gives students, teachers, scholars, and general readers a common space for engaging deliberately with Henry David Thoreau's . . .

Humboldt State alumnus and wildlife disease ecologist Mourad Gabriel assesses the threats to wildlife and the food chain posed by the rodenticides and acutely toxic pesticides associated with illegal marijuana cultivation on our public and tribal land . . .

"Carolyn Finney, Ph.D. is a writer, performer and cultural geographer. As a professor in Environmental Science, Policy and Management at the College of Natural Resources at the University of California, Berkeley, she explores how issues of difference . . .

Leonard Shlain is the Chairman of Laparoscopic surgery at the California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco and is an Associate Professor of Surgery at UCSF. He is also the author of several critically acclaimed, award-winning books. Art & Physic . . .

Presentation Summary: The life and death of California’s Campaign Against Marijuana Planting (CAMP, 1983-2012) offers a unique analytical window into the time and space of the U.S. war on drugs in a global context. This paper presentation draws on CAM . . .

Dr. Kevin Fingerman is an Assistant Professor of Environmental Science and Management at Humboldt State University. His research employs life cycle assessment and simulation modeling tools to evaluate the broad-based impacts of transportation energy s . . .

Professor Black made news for his study of river otter populations in which he enlisted students, hikers, fishermen and other community members to determine the health of the animals locally. He's employed the same inclusive strategy to study eight ot . . .

Tim'm T. West is a poet, scholar, rapper, and youth activist who was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, and raised primarily in rural Arkansas. A contemporary Renaissance man, he is a featured voice in many documentaries about hip hop and masculinity because o . . .

Over 85% of the population of the United States lives in states that have adopted the Common Core State Standards in Mathematics. By coming together in this way we have an opportunity to improve mathematics education dramatically if we follow through . . .

Lopez holds an endowed chair as the John H. Boalt Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley, where he teaches in the areas of race and constituitional law. He is also a Senior Fellow at Demos and the director of the Racial Politics Pr . . .