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Laura first joined Chapman University in the summer of 2006. Since her time here she has been responsible for recreating and maintaining the Wilkinson website, launching the Wilkinson Review and overseeing promotional material for various programs and events helping to carry out objectives of the college through forms of social media (Wilkinson Facebook Page, Wilkinson News Blog, Wilkinson Twitter). Laura earned her B.A. at the University of La Verne in Journalism and comes to us from The Orange County Register where she worked as a reporter for eight years.
Did you know that there are roughly 6,909 spoken languages in the world today (according to https://www.linguisticsociety.org)? However, about 2,000 of those languages have fewer than 1,000 speakers? Mind-blown? There are over 2,000 languages endangered today and that count changes constantly. A language becomes endangered when its users begin to teach and speak a more
The Griset Chair in Bible and Christian Tradition was the first endowed chair at Chapman University, established in 1984 in the name of Belle Griset, whose son Francis Griset served as a Chapman Trustee for many years. This Chair was held formerly by our esteemed colleague Prof. Marvin Meyer until his untimely passing in 2012.
Did you know that there are roughly 6,909 spoken languages in the world today (according to https://www.linguisticsociety.org)? However, about 2,000 of those languages have fewer than 1,000 speakers? Mind-blown? There are over 2,000 languages endangered today and that count changes constantly. A language becomes endangered when its users begin to teach and speak a more
This summer Chapman Baseball took home the Division III National Championship title, sweeping Birmingham-Southern College in the best-of-three National Championship Series and among those hard-working ballplayers was Wilkinson’s very own Cooper Foard (’22 Political Science Major). “It was (and still is) surreal that we won it all,” said Foard. “Traveling out to Cedar Rapids and
It’s no secret that Wilkinson College artist Lia Halloran, associate professor in the Department of Art, is busy intersecting art and science together everyday. Like really busy! During her sabbatical in New York last spring, she was invited as an Artist in Resident at the American Museum of Natural History in the astrophysics department, while
Each summer, a team of undergraduate researchers are assembled to work on The Chapman University Survey of American Fears (an in-depth examination into the fears of average Americans) and are supervised by Wilkinson Professors Chris Bader, Ed Day and Ann Gordon, meeting once a week out of The Babbie Center and Henley lab. The students
The 27th annual Southern California Conference for Undergraduate Research (SCCUR) will be held at California State University, San Marcos on Saturday, November 23, 2019.SCCUR is an annual research conference held in Southern California where undergraduate students from ALL disciplines, including the arts, performing arts, sciences, humanities, and social sciences, are invited to present their research
Annabelle Koeber (‘BA in Anthropology, BA in Sociology, ’20,) was awarded an Undergraduate Student Scholarly Research/Creative Grant, where she recently traveled to Spain on The Island of Menorca for field school. Koeber conducted research in an archaeology program for beginners, learning how to work in the field, while gaining the experience and skills needed for
By David Krausman (’16) MFA Creative Writing, MA English Wilkinson College Admin Assistant On July 5th Wilkinson College Administrative Assistant David Krausman boarded a plane with a delegation of ten high school students and one co-chaperone bound for Fukui, Japan. The delegation of students represented the city of Fullerton, California in a cultural exchange that
By Muhammad Karkoutli, Babbie Center Undergraduate Research Fellow (’20) and Syd Kotar, Henley Lab Undergraduate Research Fellow (’19) JUST four days following two earthquakes of magnitude 6.4 and 7.1 that occurred on July 4th and 5th respectively, we drove to Ridgecrest and Trona. These are two cities in Southern California that were at the epicenter
The Griset Chair in Bible and Christian Tradition was the first endowed chair at Chapman University, established in 1984 in the name of Belle Griset, whose son Francis Griset served as a Chapman Trustee for many years. This Chair was held formerly by our esteemed colleague Prof. Marvin Meyer until his untimely passing in 2012.
Last week, Dr. Jennifer D. Keene officially stepped into the position of Wilkinson College Dean. “I’m excited to begin, and look forward to working with the faculty and staff to build a bright future for Wilkinson College,” she said. In an email to Wilkinson College faculty and staff, Dr. Keene thanked former Wilkinson College Dean,
Keeping Indigenous Languages Alive 
Juggling Academics and Sports … and Succeeding 
Halloran Awarded Fellowship 
Annabelle Koeber Travels to Mediterranean Sea 
Fullerton Sister City Association Creates Cultural Exchanges 
Complacency in California