$1.5 Million Grant Award to Transition Math Majors Into Teaching Profession
Cal State Fullerton has been awarded a $1.5 million National Science Foundation Noyce program grant to recruit and prepare math majors for the teaching profession.
Natural Sciences and Mathematics
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Cyanobacteria Study Seeks to Reveal Evolution of Oxygen on Earth
Cal State Fullerton biologists are examining cyanobacteria to understand the evolution of oxygen on Earth. Their study focuses on understanding how photosystem II evolved to produce oxygen from water.
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Alzheimer’s Disease and Homelessness Are Topics of Eclectics Lecture Series
Cal State Fullerton’s Osher Lifelong Learning Institute will present its spring Eclectics lecture series from Jan. 15 to April 11.
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Innovation Fellows Seek to Enhance Student Engagement, Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Three business administration and one biological science student have been named University Innovation Fellows, an international program established to empower students to become agents of change.
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Physics Student’s Research Highlighted in New Gravitational-Wave Detections
LIGO and Virgo announce four new gravitational-wave detections Dec. 3. CSUF physicists and student researchers worked with the team of international scientists on the discoveries, which includes 10 black-hole mergers and one neutron star merger.
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Math Scholar Lauded for Biostatistics Study on Treating Oral Cancer
Mathematics major Rico Palafox and biological science major Joshua Fonbuena both received a 2018 Student Presentation Award for their research at the Society for Advancement of Chicanos/Hispanics and Native Americans in Science (SACNAS): The National Diversity in STEM Conference in Texas.
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Physicists Get Astronomical Boost for Gravitational-Wave Science
New National Science Foundation grants support CSUF faculty-student research to help plan the future of gravitational-wave science.
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Extinct Tuskless Walrus Fossil Discovered in Orange County
A new scientific paper by Cal State Fullerton paleontologists describes a new genus and species of walrus, in which they named after CSUF Titans and Orange County, where the extinct, tuskless fossil was discovered.
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The Digitization of Marine Invertebrate Fossils Brings Ancient Sea Life to Light
Geological sciences faculty members Nicole Bonuso and James Parham, with a team of student researchers, worked on a collaborative project to digitalize marine invertebrate fossils found in Orange County.
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First-Year Science and Mathematics Students Learn to ‘Think Like Einstein’
“Think Like Einstein” is a new course for incoming math and science majors to teach them how to think critically, expose them to STEM majors and form peer connections to gain skills for college success.