By Pj Perez While growing up, Fowler School of Law’s 2019 Dean’s Award recipient Flor Gonzalez (JD ‘19) would spend her summers visiting her hometown in Mexico in an off-the-grid, rural community that didn’t seem like a priority for its government. There, she witnessed a community devastated through violence. “That’s why I want to work
Chapman University’s Dodge College of Film and Media Arts is excited to welcome the community to its annual Community Voices Documentary Screening on Thursday, May 2 at 7pm in the Folino Theater. COMMUNITY VOICES: AMERICA’S STORIES is a social issue documentary film program at Chapman University. Each year, groups of students spend two semesters creating a
The Student Scholar Symposium celebrates the breadth and depth of scholarly research and creative exploration by Chapman University students. Join us May 1st and 2nd to experience a showcase of projects from diverse academic and creative disciplines. Interact with our student researchers and their innovative exhibits, reflecting the rigorous inquiry happening across the campus. This
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,
What comes to mind if I ask you to picture the word nature? Most of you will conjure an image of an uninhabited forest, a pristine national park, or a remote beach. Very few of you will consider the tree or garden right outside your window. Urban areas, which account for 3 to 5 percent of