Cal State Fullerton’s new Tuffy’s Graduation Scholars program is a cross-divisional initiative to guide first-year students every step of the way during their Titan college journey. Launched this fall semester, the program is a collaborative effort between the divisions of Student Affairs, Academic Affairs and Information Technology.
Research into manta rays, electron scattering and emerging datasets for agriculture, as well as programs that encourage study in social work, allied health care and STEM fields, have garnered nearly $11 million in awards, grants and contracts during the first fiscal quarter of the academic year.
Cal State Fullerton faculty, staff and students are asked to answer a survey about ethnic studies taught on campus. The information will be used in CSU response to a proposed assembly bill requiring at least one three-unit ethnic studies course be a requirement as part of undergraduate graduation requirements.
The College of Engineering and Computer Science has seven new faculty members, including five women, this academic year.
As the campus prepares for the WSCUC (WASC Senior College and University Commission) accreditation visit beginning Oct. 1, there is likely to be a specific focus on four lines of inquiry.
To prepare future teachers for the K-12 classroom, four new faculty members — in elementary and bilingual education and secondary education — joined Cal State Fullerton’s College of Education this 2019-20 academic year.
Honors students and history majors Monique Garcia and Andres Muñoz-Ramirez has been selected for the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship program.
Cal State Fullerton faculty researchers are presenting noontime talks at Pollak Library on a variety of topics and across disciplines, including the Ridgecrest earthquake, Human Genome Project, mass shootings to supervolcanoes. The brown bag lunch series begins Sept. 25 through Dec. 3.
Cal State Fullerton biological science professor Nikolas Nikolaidis, professor of biological science, will present “The Lessons 500,000 Human Genome Sequences Taught Us” at a Sept. 25 faculty noontime talk at Pollak Library.
Two new faculty members joined Cal State Fullerton’s College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics this academic year. Julia Y.K. Chan explores ways to improve the teaching and learning of chemistry to increase the number of college students in STEM disciplines. Kathryn Metcalf studies tectonophysics — the physics of plate tectonics as the Earth’s surface moves as a result of earthquakes.