The research project has been developed to investigate what the relationship is between early education students, teachers, living plants inside and outside the classroom, and the environment outside the windows. The research project surveys 32 center-based programs among rural and urban early education programs to produce quantitative and qualitative data for a research project that will support a blog site. The blog site will include curriculum plans, activities and images supporting incorporation of plants in children’s environments and children’s interactions with natural materials and playscapes.

Individuals facing poverty and homelessness can be denied housing when care-taking for a companion animal. Sometimes a refusal of housing is caused by rules which prohibit companion animals in housing, so the preference is to remain homeless. My project provides a compilation of local, free, and low cost resources to help provide for the companion animal’s care. A needs assessment with persons facing long-term homelessness informed the list. The compilation will allow a person facing poverty to make informed choices among resources in the community that would facilitate a healthy human-companion animal relationship regardless of status of homelessness.

Research suggests associations between food insecurity and poor mental health outcomes such as anxiety, depression, stress, and disruptions in social and emotional development (e.g., Knowles et al., 2015). The current study examined relationships between food security and mental health outcomes among 1,415 college students. We hypothesized that greater food insecurity would be related to more personal problems, academic concerns, lower GPA, and greater instances of poor mental health. The present study found that food insecurity related to negative impacts across students personal and academic lives. These results suggest that food insecurity may be a barrier to academic success.

I am interning at the District Attorney's Victim Witness program located in Eureka California as an advocate. There has been a long standing need for a grief support group for those who have lost a loved one to murder. As a mother of a murdered daughter I understand how important a grief support group becomes for this population. This unique need has become my community project focus and passion for those who've experienced complicated grief related to homicide. Broken Spirits Rising can offer people who are grieving a supportive environment in which to work through their grief when,for many of them there may be few places in their lives in which they can get this support and be themselves

This project presents a unique approach to mapping the Maya landscape of Northwestern Belize. The basis of the research will explore various GIS and cartographic techniques to manipulate and visualize geospatial data to map and produce a model to assist with predictive site survey of archaeological structures. As a result of this research, various images of relief visualization will be produced to help with pre-field planning for the summer 2018 field season. This project is part of the Dos Hombres to Gran Cacao Archaeology Project (DH2GC) led by Dr. Marisol Cortes-Rincon at Humboldt State University.

One issue facing fisheries management is communicating with the public in an informative way. Filmography has shown to be an excellent medium for educating the public. A major driving force of education consist of documentaries, giving access of new information to the most amount of people. In collaboration with the Mad River Fish Hatchery I have created an educational documentary that assists in further educating the the local community and students that visit this site. This project will reinforce the necessity of the Fish Hatcheries educational purposes and further continue their mission in fish management practices.

By addressing the needs of Generation Z students in the classroom, we are able to tailor the learning environment to the generation. The ineffectiveness of the traditional teaching pedagogy shows the need to adapt the classroom. As a classroom assistant in a service-learning class, I was able to see how communication in the classroom plus reflection creates community, and awareness of community. By proposing a dynamic learning environment such as one with service-learning, one is able to shape the way the classroom interacts and engages with its students to address their changing learning style. We need to ask the question of how can we engage students in an adapting and changing world.

Video of the Humboldt State Calypso Band performing Pan In Unity in Fulkerson Recital Hall featuring Len 'Boogsie' Sharpe from Trinidad & Tobago as the Featured Soloist. The video with credits is 7 minutes and 37 seconds long.

This is a project that was a training to VA social workers to educate them on education benefits for Veterans and their families.

In cooperation with Indiana University (formerly IUPUI), the Cal Poly Humboldt (formerly Humboldt State University) Gravity Lab is undertaking a project to more accurately measure the value of the Universal Gravitational Constant in terms of SI base units. Gravitational modifications to the torque on the pendulum will be obtained via two methods through sequential experiments with a common apparatus, with the goal to provide a window into the cause of previous discrepancies between the two methods of measurement, resulting in a more accurate determined value for G.