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Endangered Woolly Star Plant Needs Extreme Flooding to Thrive

Cal State Fullerton ecologist Darren R. Sandquist, and his former student, Rebecca R. Hernandez, now a professor at UC Davis, collaborated on a new study on the Santa Ana River woolly star, an endangered plant species. Their research was published in the Ecological Society of America journal, Ecosphere. The research effort aims to reduce ecological impacts, including urban development, to prevent extinction of the rare species that grows in local floodplains.

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Engineering Students Create Eco-Friendly Office Building Design

A team of Cal State Fullerton engineering students has designed an office building that makes extensive use of sustainable and eco-friendly principles and technology in a first-of-its-kind project for the College of Engineering and Computer Science. The team competes April 12-14 in the U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon Design Challenge at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, Colorado. CSUF the only California team selected to compete.