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.
The Desert Studies Center, located in the Mojave National Reserve, has a new station manager, Cal State Fullerton alumnus Jason Wallace, who is conducting a long-term study on the reptiles of the eastern Mojave Desert. The center is operated by the California State University’s California Desert Studies Consortium, in which Cal State Fullerton provides administrative oversight.
Seven Cal State Fullerton students in the Maximizing Access to Research Careers program are sending the summer conducting research at Ph.D. granting institutions across the country.
Programs and services that Cal State Fullerton offers to area schools and businesses are among the research and efforts that have received more than $6 million in funding during the period of April 1 through June 30.
Cal State Fullerton geological sciences faculty and students have developed an audio field trip app on the magmatic and glacial geology (the geologic story) of Yosemite National Park.
Cal State Fullerton biological science students in the Southern California Ecosystems Research Program are doing summer research on how desert plants cope with salinity, the diversity of California pipefish at the local beaches, and examine how microplastics are eaten and move through the food chains of marine invertebrates.