This past weekend, Brian Alters became President of the Board of Directors of the National Center for Science Education (NCSE). The President for the past 18 years was Kevin Padian, Professor of paleontology at U.C. Berkeley. NCSE is frequently in the middle of heated national controversy. With the addition of the teaching of climate change to
The CES’s very own Dr. Judy Montgomery is working with President Jim Doti and Lisa Mertins on their blog about their new children’s book endeavor. President Doti will write the story and Lisa will illustrate it. They collaborated on their first children’s book, A Christmas Adventure in Little Italy in 2010. It is the story of little
The CES’s very own Dr. Alters has been elected as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) This is a very prestigious honor and the CES sends our heartfelt congratulations to Dr. Alters for all his achievements and this wonderful honor! For more on this wonderful award please visit the Happenings article.
On January 7, 2012, at one of the world’s largest and most prestigious professional associations of its kind, Dr. Brian Alters, College of Educational Studies and the Schmid College of Science and Technology, gave the closing plenary lecture to the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB) which was formed in 1902. Dr. Alters delivered
Our very own Dr. Brian Alters was quoted in two separate articles this past week! One in the Los Angeles Times titled Biology test omits creation theory, complains Kentucky educator and then in an article from Orange Coast College about the retirement of one of Dr. Alter’s mentors, Dr. Tom Garrison.
October 26, 2011 FROM: Daniele C. Struppa, Ph.D. Chancellor, Chapman University It is with sadness that I inform you that Donna Cucunato, Associate Professor Emerita of the College of Educational Studies, passed away Saturday at her home surrounded by her family. Admired and respected for her dedication and passion for serving students, it was
Congratulations to Ken Tye, Ed.D., professor emeritus, here in the College of Educational Studies, for being selected to receive the Distinguished Global Scholar award at the annual conference of the National Council for the Social Studies in Washington, D.C. on Dec. 2! For more information on this prestigious award please see the full article in Happenings!
On Friday, June 3rd the College of Educational Studies honored Presidential Fellow, Dr. Ruebén Martinez at an event to celebrate his honorary doctorate that he received at commencement this year. At the event the CES also to announced the launch of the Dr. Ruebén Martinez Legacy Campaign. The Legacy Campaign will raise money to create
On May 4th the CES honored professor Donna Cucunato for her 34 years of service to Chapman University as she prepares to retire this year. The evening was a celebration of Cucunato’s many contributions to Chapman over the years in the Dance department and College of Educational Studies from helping start American Celebration in the
Congratulations are in order to our four new Ph.D.s in Education (above, left to right), Stephanie Brown, Christy Neria, Alaine Ocampo and John Erratt! All four have successfully defended their doctoral dissertations and will have their hooding ceremony at Commencement on May 21st! Committee members for Stephanie Brown’s dissertation were Dawn Hunter (chair) Phil Ferguson,