Faculty and Staff Awarded Nearly $4.9 Million in Grants, Contracts
Cal State Fullerton faculty and staff received close to $4.9 million in funding during March and April 2020.
Humanities and Social Sciences
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Graduating ASI President Named Student Advocate of the Year
Aaron Aguilar, a Cal State Fullerton senior majoring in psychology, has been named the Cal State Student Association’s Shaun Lumachi Student Advocate of the Year.
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New Anthropology Class Examines Complexities of Food Systems
Cal State Fullerton’s new “Global Ethnographies of Food” class is designed to introduce students to the culture and politics of global food production and consumption.
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Campus Garden Is Ready to Sprout
The groundbreaking of Cal State Fullerton’s campus garden, originally planned for April 22 Earth Day, is now slated for October due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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NSF Graduate Fellowships Give Scholars a Leg Up for Their Doctoral Studies
Cal State Fullerton physics major Denyz Melchor and sociology major Mariana López have each received a prestigious National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship for their doctoral studies.
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Titans of Promise: Campus Tour Leads to Degree in Political Science
Meghan Waymire, political science major, discusses her Cal State Fullerton journey
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Student Uses Lessons From Nazi Germany Resistance in Looking at Today’s Pandemic Virus, Other Issues
A CSUF religious studies and history major’s senior thesis on anti-Nazi dissident Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the lessons from Finkenwalde Seminary was selected for the Council on Undergraduate Research’s “Posters on the Hill” event.
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Criminal Justice Professor Targets Wildlife, Ethics Questions in ‘Tiger King’
Jarret Lovell, a Cal State Fullerton professor who teaches a course on “Animals, Law and Society,” answers questions about Netflix’s “Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness” docuseries.
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Designing Ethical Robots
JeeLoo Liu, professor and chair of the Philosophy Department, looks at ways to design ethical robots.
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How the Coronavirus Is Changing the English Language
One change prompted by COVID-19 may be less noticeable than the rest — new phrases and terms in the English language.