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.
Two student research proposals have been accepted for presentation at the April 19-20 “Posters on the Hill” event in Washington, D.C.
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.
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.
The University has been awarded a $3 million grant from the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine to train students in stem cell research and regenerative medicine.
Allyson Fry-Petit joined the University as an assistant professor of chemistry and biochemistry. She earned her doctorate in inorganic chemistry from Ohio State University.
Math educator Bridget K. Druken taught college mathematics courses for pre-service elementary teachers, tutored high school seniors and helped teach math to third-graders before joining the faculty this academic year.
CSUF faculty members are in print in recently published books and articles.
Biology graduate student Kevin Chiem has received the Crellin Pauling Student Teaching Award from the California State University Program for Biotechnology.
Biological science professor Amybeth Cohen is the recipient of the 2016 Andreoli Faculty Service Award from the CSU Program for Education and Research in Biotechnology.