About 150 students from California’s 46th Congressional District visited Chapman on a Saturday in January for a half-day seminar as part of Rep. Lou Correa’s Young Congressional Leaders Program. Mostly high school students from the congressional district that includes Anaheim, Santa Ana and parts of Orange, the young people in the program learn about the
Around the neighborhood, dogs are sometimes as well known as their owners. If you see a handsome boxer working as a service dog in the vicinity of Chapman’s Dale E. Fowler School of Law, that’s probably Tank. The man with him is Juan Valdez, a retired Marine who entered law school last fall, 12 years
A massive effort by Orange County United Way to count the area’s homeless population in January was led in part by recent Chapman graduate Atty McLellan, who undertook the work as Chapman’s first recipient of a Shinnyo Fellowship. The fellowship provides a paycheck and benefits for 10 months to a small group of recent college
Vidal Arroyo, a first-generation student from Orange County, has been named Chapman University’s first Rhodes Scholar, earning one of the most prestigious fellowships in the world. As late as his junior year of high school, Arroyo wasn’t considering higher education. But high school friends were busy taking SATs, so he did, too. He aced them,
A group of trained Master Teachers from 22 schools in the Orange Unified School District has received the Friends of Attallah College Award for their work mentoring future teachers from Chapman University. “The dedication and efforts of OUSD for our students, staff, faculty and alumni have left a lasting impact, and we deeply appreciate the
On a fall Saturday at the Orange Public Library, about 25 middle and high school youth learned some of the secrets of the monarch butterfly migration from Chapman University’s Jeremy Hsu, Ph.D., an assistant instructional professor of biological science. “It was wonderful. The kids learned scientific critical thinking skills in a very unique way,” said
Never underestimate the power of a neighborly visit from officers in uniform. Sgt. Rob Thorsen of the Orange Police Department and Capt. John Kabala of Chapman Public Safety are part of a Chapman University community liaison program aimed at informing students living near campus about how to be good neighbors and the consequences of participating