A team of Cal State Fullerton mechanical engineering students are taking on the challenge of using 3D printing to create a functional prosthetic arm for a disabled individual.
A $1.25 million National Science Foundation grant is funding a Cal State Fullerton interdisciplinary, community-based project to develop smart-home technologies for people previously affected by homelessness and now living in permanent supportive housing.
Military-connected students accomplish their personal and professional goals thanks to academic and emotional support from the Veterans Resource Center.
I did not grow up in an overtly racist household. My parents did not use hateful or racist speech. They did not engage in practices or organizations that were exclusionary or segregated. So, I spent much of my life viewing myself as “not racist.” But as I genuinely and consciously began my journey toward being […]
That one salient moment for me happened during the midst of the social unrest after the murder of George Floyd. My family is from Hong Kong. We immigrated to the United States when I was 3 years old. My parents uprooted their lives to give my sisters and me a chance at an education that […]
I identify as a first-generation college student, cisgender male, Indigenous/Native Pacific Islander, and diasporic Chamoru, ancestrally rooted to the Island of Guam/Guahan; born in (Westside) Long Beach, California, and raised in Southern California in a working-class family. Both of my parents are Chamorro from Guam. Traveling to and from Guam most of my life and living […]
The great James Baldwin once stated: “The poets (by which I mean all artists) are finally the only people who know the truth about us.” With that being said, I am indeed a poet. However, I do not claim to know the truth more than any, especially considering the years of truth we lost as […]
It’s been nearly four decades since Cal State Fullerton fielded a water polo team. A revival of the sport was seen by many as a pipe dream. But dreams sometimes do come true. The school is adding men’s and women’s water polo teams next year, Director of Athletics Jim Donovan has announced. Fullerton had a […]
In 1992, while I was a Cal State Fullerton student studying abroad in Germany, Black motorist Rodney King was beaten by police officers. Those officers were subsequently acquitted, and civil unrest broke out in Los Angeles. In our shared kitchen, my European floormates asked me to explain why. It was the first time I recall […]
Growing up in Taiwan, a monoracial society, sexism was the first type of oppression I experienced. I am forever grateful and appreciative of my parents having “the talk” with me very early on about people who think less of women and girls. The clear message that “they” are the ones who are wrong has been […]