Grand Challenges Initiative Showcase 2022
On Friday, May 13, 2022, the Grand Challenges Initative (GCI) hosted their annual showcase on the Wilson Ampitheater. GCI Teams presented their projects to…
Grand Challenges Initiative
2022 Outstanding Research Publication Award Highlights Utility of Real Time Data for Responding to Disasters
This year’s submissions for the 3rd annual Chapman University Grand Challenges Initiative Outstanding Research Publication Award included fascinating results that added to the world’s…
Traumatic Brain Injuries: Memory Retention and Recovery
In the medical world, there are very limited resources that support patients with Traumatic Brain Injuries (TBIs) with recovering memory in a cost-efficient, minimally…
EZ MED
The Grand Challenge our group chose to face this semester is to improve medication adherence among patients with cognitive impairment causing memory loss. Our…
Reach
Our grand challenge is finding an accurate way to evaluate and analyze different mental health disorders based off of results from our comprehensive survey,…
Overpopped!
We are finding an ethical solution to overpopulation that centers on female empowerment, education, and increased contraceptive access both locally and globally. We created…
Photodegradation of Oceanic Plastics
Less carbon dioxide absorption, reduction of phytoplankton population, organismal absorption and ingestion of microplastics, human health concerns: all directly tied to oceanic microplastics. The…
Effects of Technology on Memory and Cognition
One of the leading causes of death amongst the elderly is Alzheimer’s disease, a type of dementia that results in rapid neurodegeneration (Gornia et…
A Data Science Approach to Gerrymandering
Gerrymandering is the rearrangement of election districts in such a way that gives one political party an advantage over the other. It is often…
Carbon Capture and Sequestration
Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) is one of the most promising climate crisis solutions. An optimized tax plan could fund carbon capture with a…
Designing and Laser Cutting Microfluidic Chips for Affordable Lipid Nanoparticle Synthesis
Microfluidic chips are used in nanoparticle synthesis to ensure uniformity. However, there is a knowledge gap regarding cost-effective ways to create them. Through laser-cutting,…
COVID
COVID-19 global pandemic has caused the hospitals to be continually overwhelmed, while the general public is constantly worried about catching the virus and becoming…