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TABLE OF CONTENTS:
Dr. Monty Mola (Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, CPH)
BSS302, 4PM, Thursday 11/13/25
"Entropy is NOT Disorder Dammit!"
Yoon G Kim
Mathematics
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2) ☺ Fall 2025 Commencement Faculty Participation ☺
Help us celebrate our grads by being part of the
processional! Please let us know you plan to be
there by Nov. 14 and we'll save you a seat!
Shannon Collart
Commencement Coordinator
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3) Collaborate with the Center for Teaching & Learning, become a CTL Faculty Scholar!
Lead innovative projects in teaching, learning,
and faculty development. Apply by Nov 17.
Let’s shape the future of teaching together!
Taylor M Sorrels
CTL
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4) **Sign-Up for Winter Wishes for local children**
Buy gifts for local children in need!
You'll be matched with a child and sent their wish
list by 11/25.
Jonathan Reynoso
UnivAdv: Alumni Rel
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5) **Help decorate Mobile Alumni Center for Trucker's Parade**
The Forever Humboldt Mobile Alumni Center needs
volunteers to put up lights and decotrations!
Email forever@humboldt.edu for more info.
Jonathan Reynoso
UnivAdv: Alumni Rel
Free for students
40$ for faculty and staff
November 13th 10am-1pm NHE 102
Mira B Friedman
Student Health and Wellbeing
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7) Assistance with conflicts and concerns
We offer coaching, mediation, conflict resolution
Services are free to students, staff, faculty
Confidential, Independent, Informal, and Impartial
Suzanne Pasztor and John Meyer
Ombuds Service
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8) Education Specialist Credential Information Meeting
Are you interested in becoming a SPED Teacher?
Convenient 1-year program, 25K Scholarship!
Register for Zoom Event: Thursday 11/13/25 @4:00
Bernie J Levy
Education, School of
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9) Favorite Fungi: Meet the Parasites & Slimes a Lecture by Professor Maria Morrow at the Natural History Museum
TONIGHT, November 8, from 6:30pm-8pm
Local Mushroom Goo, Ecology, Identification
Natural History Museum Classroom (behind museum)
Julie Van Sickle
Natural History Museum
Volunteer in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day
Monday, January 19th, 2026 (8am-12pm)
Learn more and register by 1/14/26
Melea J Smith
OSL: YES
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11) Theatre Presents: Antigone by Sophocles
Join us for an evening of theatre in Gist Hall
Nov 7-8 & 14-15 @ 7:30pm; Nov 9 & 14 @ 2pm
Free for students!
Jeremy C Wilson
Dance Music Theatre
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12) Slice of AI & Pie - A Workshop on Friday, November 14
Please join us for discussion and activities with
AI tools and enjoy pizza! Nov. 14 at 12pm in the
Library Learning Lab, room 308. RSVP here:
Jessica Welch
Library
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13) ECOSERIES Virtual presentation with Sarah Rockwell; Oregon Vesper Sparrow and Western Purple Martin
Thursday November 13, 2025 4:00pm
WDFS 258 or by Zoom
Meeting ID: 872 7881 6742 Passcode: WildTalk
JoAnna L Pifferini
Wildlife Management
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14) Spring 2026 Art Courses for Kids
Studio School Registration is now open for Sp'26!
Inspired by the Greats: Sat. Feb 7 - March 7
Nature's Palette: Sat. March 28 - April 25th
Andrea Webb
College of Extended Education
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15) Spring 2026 Beekeeping Courses
Registration now open for Beekeeping Courses Sp'26
Gain the information & experience needed to
succeed as a beekeeper! Courses meet Feb-May 2026
Andrea Webb
College of Extended Education
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16) Biological Sciences Seminar - Ben Lemmond, University of CA, Berkeley
Friday, November 7 @ 4 p.m. in Scib 135
Adventures in the fungal underworld:
truffles, trees, and the ectomycorrhizal realm
Amelia M Wright
Biological Sciences
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17) Targeted Machine Learning, Highly Adaptive Lasso, and Causal Inference for Generating Actionable Information
Nov. 7th from 3-4:30 in BSS 508: the Appropriate
Computing Group will discuss a recent talk by
Prof. Mark van der Laan (UC Berkeley), linked here
Rosanna H Overholser
Mathematics