This Peer Counseling program was dedicated to creating a healthy community culture through mentoring younger students, youth advocacy, and peer education. Peer mentors received training in topics including communication, conflict resolution, cultural humility, and self esteem building. Throughout the program peer mentors met several times a month for seminars to process their experiences and receive additional training. Peer counselors also created presentations for middle school classrooms, volunteered at Healthy Start Family Resource Center events and were called upon by the wider community for participating in youth advocacy radio, drug free community focus groups, and more.

A locavore diet aims to consume only foods that have been grown and produced typically within 100 miles of where you live (I chose to do 50 miles). Localism offers community-based solutions to global problems like fossil fuel dependency, carbon emissions, and single-use plastics while attempting to remove the individual from global markets, transnational free-trade agreements, and socio-economic exploitation of labor. This project reflects on the personal privileges and challenges with participating in a strict 50-mile diet in terms of economic viability, dietary habits, and accessibility to luxury ingredients (such as sugar, spices, and beer).

Students should experience feelings of belonging and safety on their university campus. We ran multiple regression analyses to identify factors that predict school connectedness, well-being, and GPA among students (n=127, 72% women, 41% white). Overall stress is a risk factor for school connectedness (p<.01) and self-esteem (p<.01). Acculturative stress may be a risk factor for school connectedness (p=.069) and ethnic identity may be a protective factor for self-esteem (p=.059). Marginal significance may be due to the lack of diversity in the sample. Programs that help students manage stress and promote multiculturalism can foster positive school connectedness and self-esteem.

A paradigm shift that utilizes water reuse strategies such as sewer mining is necessary as water resources become more stringent. Sewer mining is the beneficial reuse of wastewater before it is conventionally treated and discharged. This novel hybrid sewer mining system is a unique combination of proven unit processes: forward osmosis (FO), direct contact membrane distillation (DCMD), anaerobic membrane bioreactors (AnMBR), Sharon, Annamox, and struvite precipitation arranged in an innovative way. This poster will present the experimental results from a bench-scale automated FO-DCMD system to produce a high quality potable effluent under different operating conditions.

This case study took place in a diverse school setting. We implemented critical multicultural literature to 3rd and 4th graders. Our question is: How do students respond to critical multicultural pedagogy and literature? We used dialogue journals, literature circles, critical dialogue, and art to build community and raise consciousness. We found that the single story approach is prevalent in schools and that multiple stories have fostered an understanding and empathy towards the diversity of struggles people face in this world. In conclusion, critical multicultural literature helps build community and empower students to be able to make changes in their community.

People use perceptions of warmth and competence as fundamental features in making decisions about others (Fiske, Cuddy, Glick, & Xu, 2002). Participants were told that they were part of a high status group and then rated either a high status in-group or lower status out-group along dimensions of warmth, competence, and perceived threat. Results show that high status participants view their in-group as high in competence and low in warmth, while perceiving the out-group as low in competence and high in warmth. These findings suggest that compensation in an inter-group setting operates according to distinctiveness rather than general positive ratings for the in-group on all dimensions.

Our purpose is to provide a platform that highlights and shares stories of HSU’s community engagement in Humboldt County and beyond. We publish stories that promote deep and enriching connections through learning, to enhance inclusivity and social and environmental justice efforts within the community. Redwood Roots is a community platform that serves to provide a direct, diverse, and transparent narrative that further encourages communal collaborations between students, alumni, faculty, and community partners. Redwood Roots highlight the diverse approaches HSU students engage in by combining learning objectives with community.

World of Warcraft is a story-based fantasy adventure massively multiplayer online role-playing game in which players customize characters and play through game content individually or in a group. Guilds in WoW are semi-permanent groups of players that come together with a common in-game agenda. Through participant observation and interviews, this project studies one guild within WoW, focusing on personal and group identity formation, and the relationship between perceived value and monetary/time investment. Examination of these topics builds reality within a fictional, virtual setting, and seeks to provide insight into the formation of structured subgroups within a larger society.

Corn has been a staple food crop for over 10,000 years, having been domesticated by aboriginal peoples in Oaxaca, Mexico. Being successfully responsive to different environmental pressures corn not only represents aboriginal survivance, it also stands as a major testimonial to their culture’s magnitude. Iroquois white corn is an ancient variety that contains a myriad of nutritional benefits which could improve the overall health of indigenous people. In a community effort to revitalize native american customs, Iroquois white corn has been reintroduced back into their daily endeavors. This effort represents a growing awareness to see past the Western portrayal of a culturally rich community.

Did you know our solid waste doesn't reside with us here in Humboldt County? We didn't either. In fact, it's actually trucked, container by container, about 280 miles south to a landfill in Solano County. Through our service-learning partnership with Zero Waste Humboldt, and collaboration with Humboldt Waste Management Authority and Recology, we are producing public service announcements and other media messages to communicate inclusive and effective solutions by cultivating a community of stakeholders in our shared environment. We intend to provoke community members, businesses, and organizations of Humboldt County to reexamine the responsibilities that come with the waste we produce.