From Cal State Fullerton to the International Space Station
Alumna Tracy Caldwell Dyson discusses her work as a NASA astronaut and how CSUF prepared her for that role.
Natural Sciences and Mathematics
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I Can’t Hear You! Desert Noise Bad for Seed-Eating Wildlife
Cal State Fullerton biological science graduate Jennifer Ibarra studied how the growing problem of traffic and other loud urban noises affect seed-eating desert wildlife in finding food sources.
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CSUF Scientists Unravel Mystery Merger in the Universe
Cal State Fullerton scientists contributed to a new gravitational-wave discovery, announced June 23 by the global LIGO Scientific Collaboration and European Virgo Collaboration, which came from an unusual cosmic system scientists have never observed before.
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Student Researcher Studies Giant Whale Shark to Create Biology-Inspired Filter
To give insight into the morphology — the function and development — of the whale shark and how this fish feeds, Cal State Fullerton marine biology student Jacob Javier documented the biological structures in baby and adult whale sharks to understand their filtration with hopes of making a biologically inspired filter.
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Titans Ready to Take on Medical, Health Professions Schools
Cecelia McWilliams and Manpreet Luthra are among more than 30 Cal State Fullerton students who have been accepted to medical and other health professions schools.
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Researchers Relay Dangerous Menace of Hospital Superbug
To give the scientific community information and insights about the hospital superbug Acinetobacter baumannii, Cal State Fullerton antibiotic-resistance researchers María Soledad Ramírez and Marcelo E. Tolmasky authored a new peer-reviewed article, recently published in the open-access journal Biomolecules.
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Mathematicians Rethink Approaches to Predicting Spread of COVID-19
Sam Behseta and Derdei Bichara of Cal State Fullerton’s Center for the Computational and Applied Mathematics teamed up to apply mathematical and statistical approaches to understand the spread and control of COVID-19.
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MARC Program Graduates Prepared for Ph.D. Studies in Biomedical Science
The Class of 2020 graduates of the National Institutes of Health-funded Maximizing Access to Research Careers (MARC) program are headed to doctoral programs in biomedical science. The program provides undergraduate research training, leadership development and graduate school preparation.
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Class of 2020 McNair Scholars Launch Into Grad Schools Across the Country
Cal State Fullerton’s Class of 2020 McNair Scholars are heading to graduate school to fulfill their advanced educational goals. The U.S. Department of Education-funded program assists underrepresented, first-generation and low-income students in preparing for graduate studies.
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Student Researcher Compares Apples to Apples: Why Bad Apples Spoil the Bunch
For her undergraduate research project, Brittany Cook, a Cal State Fullerton graduate, embarked on a study comparing apples to apples — from a genomic (a plant’s genetic material) perspective.