NASA Grant Supports Physics Researchers’ Interstellar Space Study
A $500,000 NASA award will help advance James F. Woodward’s and Heidi Fearn’s study on space propulsion for future human exploration missions.
Natural Sciences and Mathematics
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Student Study Results in First DNA Barcode of Southern California Coastal Flatworms
Biological science major Kelsey Nannini won a national award for her research on “hard-to-identify” flatworms — colorful free-living marine predators that are often found on rocks in intertidal environments.
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Campus Honors Students for Top Scholarly and Creative Activities
Creative and scholarly works in fields ranging from dance, cinema and television, engineering and kinesiology were recognized with this year’s Outstanding Student Scholarly and Creative Activities Awards during CSUF’s Student Creative Activities and Research Day.
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External Funding Supports Research and Programs Exploring the Sea, the Earth and City Economics
Cal State Fullerton faculty, staff and administrators have garnered more than $1.6 million in grants and contracts for wide-ranging research efforts and program support.
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Outstanding Research = National Awards for Student Mathematicians
Mathematics scholars presented their research projects at a national conference and earned top awards in their areas of study.
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Marine Scientists Study Epidemic Threatening Sea Stars
A mysterious disease known as sea star wasting syndrome has been killing sea stars along the West Coast. Cal State Fullerton marine biologists are studying why.
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Science Lesson: Faculty and Students Share Their Insights
A record number of poster presentations to be presented during NSM Week, which includes the annual Bridges to Stem Cell Research Symposium.
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‘Living With Natural Disasters’
How to live with natural disasters, the damage and the suffering they often cause has been the focus of years of research and study for Cal State Fullerton professor Binod Tiwari, a professor of civil engineering and an expert in geotechnical engineering.
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South of the Border Study Encourages Ecology and Conservation
As part of a new course, “Baja Conservation and Restoration Ecology,” biological science students participation in a dry forest restoration project in the Sierra de la Laguna mountains of Baja California Sur, and contributed to an on-going sea turtle monitoring project in Bahia Magdalena.
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Alumna Linda Spilker is Saturn’s Ringmaster
The project scientist for NASA’s Cassini mission, an expert on planetary ring systems, shares her experiences as a space explorer.