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Get current at https://now.humboldt.edu
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TABLE OF CONTENTS:
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1) CDOR Launch & Preview: Why the theme "We Are Here! Fighting Fascism & Erasure" (Food & Refreshments)
Learn more about upcoming CDOR theme & schedule
Discuss how race intersects with tenets of fascism
Food & refreshments by Equity Arcata. Open to all.
Paul Michael L Atienza
CRGS
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2) One Week Away: Campus Dialogue on Race, Oct 19-23, 2026
Week-long series of presentations & workshops
Theme is "We Are Here! Fighting Fascism & Erasure"
3 Featured Speakers w/ food & drinks. See schedule
Paul Michael L Atienza
CRGS
CouRaGeous Cuentos
Theme: Storytelling as Memory in Motion
Submission deadline: October 22, 2026
CRGS Team
CRGS
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4) 16) Pot and Popular Culture: From yellow journalism to AI slop, the medium has always been the message when it comes to cannabis.
Special lecture by David Bienenstock
Friday, October 9, 2-3pm, GH218
Reception at the Cannabis Studies Lab afterwards.
Daniel J Mar
Sociology
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5) Coast Central Rooted In Uplifting YOU
From scholarships, to sponsorships, to community
grants, Coast Central invests more than $700k
annually in our community, made possible by you.
Michael J Herbert
Athletics
Join us in recognizing and celebrating our
transfer students and their journeys! Starting
10/19-10/23. See the schedule of events.
Marissa Holguin
CIACE: Transfer Ctr
Zero-Waste Recipe Collection Booklet
Titled: * No Bananas On the Boat *
Send a recipe and photo to mew11@humboldt.edu
Morgan E Barker, Sustainability Librarian
Library
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8) Where to go when you don't know where to go?
Ombuds offers coaching, mediation, conflict res.
Confidential, Independent, Informal, and Impartial
Free to all students, staff, faculty
John Meyer and Jayne McGuire
Ombuds Service
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9) Your Dining Feedback Survey is here!
You are invited to submit your feedback to our
annual Campus Dining Survey. Enter to win prizes.
Deadline is October 31. Confidential and quick.
Todd Larsen
Enterprise Services
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10) The Risks of Using AI in Writing for Publication, Including Master’s Theses
Know risks of using ChatGPT
Know risks of not using it
Oct 9, Library 302, 2pm / Oct 16, Zoom, 10am
Kyle E Morgan
The Press at Cal Poly Humboldt
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11) Planning a summer 2027 conference or workshop?
House your attendees on our beautiful campus!
It's an affordable and straightforward process.
Contact Joellen for prices & more info.
Joellen C Peterson
Enterprise Services
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12) ☺ Fall 2026 Commencement Staff Participation☺
Help us celebrate our grads by being part of the
processional or providing on the ground support!
Register your participation by November 18.
Shannon Collart
Commencement Coordinator
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13) Eavesdropping on Nature: Voices in the Dark and Evening Lecture at the Natural History Museum
Presented by Professor of Zoology Dr. Joe Szewczak
Friday, October 23rd, from 6:30pm-8pm, Donations
Bats, Ecology, Identification
Julie Van Sickle
Natural History Museum
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14) Trivia Night at the Natural History Museum
Come put your natural history & science knowledge
to the test Sat, Oct 17 at 5:30 p.m at the NHM
Register now, pay at the door $5 members $8 others
Julie Van Sickle
Natural History Museum
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15) Biology Seminar Series: October 9, 4 pm, SciB 135
Professor Mihai Tomescu will present "Unassuming
plant fossils of great consequence from the stick
world of the Early Devonian" Oct 9, 4 pm, SciB 135
Allison W Bronson
Biological Sciences
Are you interested in studying abroad? Attend an
info session Tuesday, 10/13, 11:30am in Gist
Hall 120. More info sessions available each week!
Kerry Gonzales
AH&SS, College of