Alumni

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  High School Girls Learn Y Math Is Fun

  July 29, 2019

  High school teens are spending the summer learning algebra and math in Cal State Fullerton’s Mathematics Intensive Summer Session, known as Project MISS. The commuter program, celebrating its 30th summer, gives students the opportunity to sharpen algebraic and precalculus concepts to get ready for their next year of high school math, as well as the rigors of university-level math and related majors. The four-week program, which ends Aug. 2, has 76 female students from high schools in Orange County and the region.

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  Antibiotic-Resistance Researchers Shed Light on Superbug Hospital Infections

  July 24, 2019

  A team of Cal State Fullerton antibiotic-resistance researchers are one step closer to shedding light on why Acinetobacter baumannii, one of the most powerful and deadly bacterial pathogens, is so hard to eradicate in people with weakened immune systems and in hospital settings. Their latest study, published in July in Frontiers in Microbiology (Infectious Diseases section), calls attention to how this superbug is able to grow and live by adapting to its environment inside the human body.

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  Leapin’ Lizards! Researcher Devotes Life to Studying Desert Reptiles

  July 18, 2019

  The Desert Studies Center, located in the Mojave National Reserve, has a new station manager, Cal State Fullerton alumnus Jason Wallace, who is conducting a long-term study on the reptiles of the eastern Mojave Desert. The center is operated by the California State University’s California Desert Studies Consortium, in which Cal State Fullerton provides administrative oversight.

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  Students Learn From Renowned Opera Baritone

  July 10, 2019

  CSUF alum and renowned baritone Jubilant Sykes recently shared the lessons he learned while a student and professional with music students at his alma mater.

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  Scientists Create Geologic Story of Yosemite’s ‘Fire and Ice’

  July 3, 2019

  Cal State Fullerton geological sciences faculty and students have developed an audio field trip app on the magmatic and glacial geology (the geologic story) of Yosemite National Park.

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  MARC Scholars Ready for Next Challenge: Grad School and a Ph.D.

  July 2, 2019

  Seven students from Cal State Fullerton’s Maximizing Access to Research Careers have graduated and will soon be heading to Ph.D. granting institutions across the country. The MARC Scholars program offers stipends, research opportunities both on campus and at Ph.D. institutions, mentoring and support in achieving their goal of achieving a doctorate in the sciences.

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  Chemistry Grad Receives Outstanding Thesis Award for Fuel Cell Research

  June 10, 2019

  Cal State Fullerton chemistry alumnus Omar Muneeb is the recipient of the 2019 Giles T. Brown Outstanding Thesis Award for his innovative research on fuel cells.

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  New Research May Hold Clues to Defeating Antibiotic-Resistant ‘Superbugs’

  June 4, 2019

  Cal State Fullerton researchers have published their latest research results to overcome “superbug” infections through the possible use of zinc-containing compounds, along with existing antibiotics.

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  Titan Receives Top Honor from National Athletic Trainers’ Association

  May 31, 2019

  Julie Max ’79 (B.S. kinesiology), Cal State Fullerton’s assistant athletics director of sports medicine, has been honored with the Eve Becker-Doyle Leadership Award from the National Athletic Trainers’ Association.

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  Researchers Discover Protein’s Journey That Could Lead to Cancer Therapeutics

  May 22, 2019

  Cal State Fullerton molecular scientist Nikolas Nikolaidis and his students have discovered how a certain protein travels within stressed cells and cancer cells — a finding that could lead to new cancer therapeutics.