Cal State Fullerton Announces 61 Faculty Tenure and Promotions
Cal State Fullerton’s Office of Faculty Affairs and Records announced the tenure and/or promotion of 61 faculty members.
College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics
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Chemistry Students Explore Formation of Temperature Superconductor at Argonne National Lab
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 […]
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Chemistry Students Explore Cutting-Edge Technology at Pfizer Laboratories
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 […]
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National Academy of Sciences Member to Speak on Campus About California Wildfires
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 […]
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CSUF to Host ‘Counted Out’ Film Screening on Pi Day
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, […]
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Mathematics Students Explore Fibonacci Sequence in Arboretum and Botanical Garden
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 […]
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13 Titans Awarded 2024-25 CSU Pre-Doctoral Scholarship
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 […]
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CSUF Faculty Help Elementary Teachers Infuse Data Science Into Their Classrooms
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. […]
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Rare Flower Blooms in CSUF Biology Greenhouse Complex
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 […]
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Chemistry Research Experience Helps Students Find Materials to Combat Climate Change
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 […]