The National Science Foundation awarded a nearly $1.4 million grant to California State University, Fresno for a project to increase diversity within the academic disciplines that make up the geosciences.

The grant will create the Geoscience Mentoring, Education, Teaching Research and Outreach (METRO) Center at Fresno State. The geoscience umbrella includes geology, environmental science, hydrology, air quality and atmospheric chemistry, meteorology and climatology.

Funding for the grant comes from federal economic stimulus money allocated through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.

Dr. Alam Hasson (above right with student Sukhdeep Singh) associate professor of chemistry, will direct the project, which involves faculty members from Fresno State’s Departments of Chemistry, Earth and Environmental Science and Geography), and from State Center Community College District’s Fresno City and Reedley college.

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California State University, Fresno physics professor Dr. Yongsheng Gao has been awarded a three-year $460,000 grant by the National Science Foundation Elementary Particle Physics program. The grant – the only one to a CSU campus – will help fund Gao and a small team of Fresno State students as they participate in research at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Geneva, Switzerland. Click here for the full story from fresnostatenews.com