A team of Cal State Fullerton chemistry students — Linh Kim, Niko Clark, Ashley Godoy and Marissa Figueroa — and their research adviser Allyson Fry-Petit, spent a week this summer at Argonne National Laboratory studying the synthesis of a reported room temperature superconductor. Superconductors are materials used in technologies ranging from MRI machines to high-speed […]
As part of the Organic Synthesis course, 11 graduate students from Cal State Fullerton’s Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry had the opportunity to visit Pfizer Laboratories in La Jolla. They were accompanied by Stevan Pecic, CSUF associate professor of chemistry and biochemistry. Paul Richardson, director of the medicinal chemistry division, hosted the visit and provided […]
Glen MacDonald, a distinguished professor at UCLA and member of the National Academy of Sciences, will visit CSUF on April 9 to give a seminar on his research about wildfires in California. Hosted by the Department of Geological Sciences, the seminar will take place in Gordon Hall, Room 252, from 4-5 p.m. The talk will […]
Cal State Fullerton’s Math and Science Teachers Initiative and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics student club will host a free screening of the award-winning documentary “Counted Out” on Pi Day, March 14. The event will take place in McCarthy Hall, Room 121, and a discussion panel will follow the film. All CSUF students, […]
Cal State Fullerton students in the History of Mathematics course visited the Arboretum and Botanical Garden at Cal State Fullerton on Oct. 10 to participate in an activity based on the Fibonacci sequence. The activity was developed by CSUF mathematics majors Fernando Bustos and Kalil Freeman as part of their Promoting Resources in Informal Science […]
The advisory committee for the California Pre-Doctoral Program, which consists of faculty and administrators from California State University and the University of California, reviewed 212 student applications this year. Of the 76 students selected, 13 Cal State Fullerton students were named Sally Casanova California Pre-Doctoral Scholars for 2024-25. Each scholar will receive $5,000, pending formal approval […]
Four days after most of their school years concluded, 21 local TK-5 elementary teachers and two elementary math coaches participated in a professional development workshop focused on integrating data science concepts into elementary curricula. Led by Cal State Fullerton faculty, the workshop was offered through Project IDEEM — Infusing Data Science Education into Elementary Mathematics. […]
For the first time since its inception in 1963, the Biology Greenhouse Complex at Cal State Fullerton has a rare flower in bloom, the Victoria amazonica water lily. The second largest water lily in the world, this plant is native to tropical regions in South America, specifically in Guyana and the Amazon basin, but it […]
In the fall of 2023, chemistry and biochemistry faculty members Allyson Fry-Petit and Joya Cooley ran a pilot of the course-based undergraduate research experience (CURE) in two lab sections of General Chemistry 2 to teach students resilience while engaging them in novel chemistry research. The CURE brings meaningful research experiences into teaching. The CURE engages […]
In 2023, eight faculty members in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry received more than $2.4 million in external funding to support research with Cal State Fullerton students. National Science Foundation: $133,963, Julia Chan, assistant professor of chemistry and biochemistry $197,819, Satchel Villafañe, associate professor of chemistry and biochemistry $299,990, Allyson Fry-Petit, associate professor of […]