Cal State Fullerton students spent the summer at foreign institutions conducting research, made possible through the Minority Health and Health Disparities International Research Training Program, directed by Marcelo E. Tolmasky, professor of biological science. The program is funded by the National Institute for Minority Health and Health Disparities, National Institutes of Health.
Cal State Fullerton biology graduate students are working on comparative research projects, in which they are assessing how environmental conditions — climate change and other factors — are affecting feather boa kelp and mussels in Southern California and in Washington.
The public is invited to free September shows of “A Photon’s Journey Across Space, Time and Mind” at Cal State Fullerton’s Dan Black Planetarium. Show dates are Sept. 3, 4 and 6.
In what may be the first-of-its-kind detection of a neutron star-black hole cosmic collision, Cal State Fullerton gravitational-wave scientists and their students are working with LIGO and European Virgo collaborators to validate the unprecedented phenomena.
Cal State Fullerton President Fram Virjee welcomed 51 new faculty members to the campus during a reception Monday evening.
More than 90 student researchers from Cal State Fullerton and the region’s community colleges showcased their summer research projects at the Summer Research Symposium Aug. 8. Projects includes ongoing research focusing on capturing carbon in coastal wetlands to combat climate change. The symposium was presented by the university’s Project RAISE, which prepares community college students for STEM college studies and careers.
Cal State Fullerton’s MARC Scholars Program has helped students develop a passion for research and then supports them toward graduate studies to help achieve a research career.
Cal State Fullerton earthquake scientist Sinan Akçiz traveled to Ridgecrest with his student, Salena Padilla, to assess the aftermath of the biggest tremors to hit Southern California in nearly two decades. Their job for two weeks: combing the land in search of ruptures on the surface.
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.
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.