Jamie Hyneman & Adam Savage of Discovery Channel Show Headline Symposium
Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage, hosts of the Discovery Channel’s popular “Mythbusters” television show, are the keynote speakers for the March 17 Science & Math Symposium.
Natural Sciences and Mathematics
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A Champion for Global Health
Navid Madani’s commitment to health advocacy, education and research stretches beyond classrooms, labs and international lines. The Cal State Fullerton alumna ’90, ’92 (B.S. biochemistry, M.S. chemistry) and Harvard Medical School senior scientist is building collaborations and infrastructure in the Middle East and in North Africa to help reduce the spread of HIV and AIDS and other infectious diseases.
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How Gravitational Wave Detectors Survived the Contract With America
CSUF Assistant Professor of Physics Geoffrey Lovelace was quoted in an Ars Technica article on the story of how the effort to detect gravitational waves survived the House Republican-led “Contract with America” in the mid-1990s.
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Lead CSUF Researcher Discusses Gravitational Waves Breakthrough
Joshua Smith, director of CSUF’s Gravitational Wave Physics and Astronomy Center, was interviewed at length on CNET’s “Tomorrow Daily.”
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New Window on the Cosmos
Titans Make Gravitational-Wave History
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Gravitational Waves Detected 100 Years After Einstein’s Prediction
Gravitational Waves Detected 100 Years After Einstein’s Prediction LIGO Opens New Window on the Universe With Observation of Gravitational Waves From Colliding Black Holes CSUF Physicists Play Significant Role in Discovery For the first time, scientists have observed ripples in the fabric of space-time called gravitational waves, arriving at the earth from a cataclysmic event […]
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THURSDAY: Scientists to provide update on the search for gravitational waves
Journalists are invited to a news conference at Cal State Fullerton this Thursday, Feb. 11, as the National Science Foundation brings together scientists from Caltech, MIT, CSUF and others in the LIGO Scientific Collaboration for a status report on the effort to detect gravitational waves.
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Titans to Present Research in Washington, D.C.
Two student research proposals have been accepted for presentation at the April 19-20 “Posters on the Hill” event in Washington, D.C.
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Plague to Parasites
With outbreaks of infectious diseases on the rise — most recently the Zika virus — CSUF scientists are conducting studies to help understand and stop the spread of infections.
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OC Fossil Find: Grad Student Identifies Ancient Mammal
Graduate student Gabriel-Philip Santos has uncovered a new fossil from Orange County — an 8-to-13 million-year-old member of an extinct group of herbivorous marine mammals called desmostylians, a hippo-like looking animal.