2021 Outstanding Research Publication Award
We are pleased to announce our 2nd annual Chapman University Grand Challenges Initiative Outstanding Research Publication Award by a Grand Challenges Initiative Postdoctoral Fellow. The award is…
Grand Challenges Initiative
GCI Team Wins the 2021 Kevin and Tam Ross Undergraduate Research Prize
Grand Challenges Initiative (GCI) students Heather Andrini, Ashley Okhovat, and Sydni Au Hoy (l. to r. above) have been awarded the 2021 Kevin and…
Highlights from Fireside Conversation with Dr. Kizzmekia Corbett
In April, the Grand Challenges Initiative was honored to host Dr. Kizzmekia Corbett, the NIH’s scientific lead for the development of a SARS-CoV-2 vaccine,…
Team Waxworms: Degradation of Polyethylene Plastic with Galleria mellonella
The excessive disposal of plastics has caused an unfathomable accumulation of plastics in cities, sewage systems, landfills, oceans etc., and is threatening ecosystems and…
Working with Wastewater
Working with Wastewater is a 2-4 player educational board game designed for ages 12 and up hosted on Tabletopia. Each player is a wastewater…
hAPPy: Mental Health Application
Our application’s purpose is to provide an opportunity to the average person in educating themselves on how their habitual tendencies effect their mental health…
Human Immunodeficiency Virus: Eradicating the Stigma
Our Grand Challenge Initiative throughout the past three semesters has been to create ways to reduce transmission of HIV, as well as create ways…
Teaching Ocean Acidification
Ocean acidification is a phenomenon that results from increasing anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions on land. As carbon dioxide is absorbed, a series of chemical…
AI Chatbots In Therapy For Depression
Our challenge was harnessing AI to be used in depression therapy. AI Chatbots In Therapy For Depression Poster
Why Causal Correlations are Applicable to Quantum Mechanics
When the concept of causality is thought of within a non-physics based context, it is typically thought of as the relationship between “cause” and…
AR in Music Education
Over the past couple of years, more and more schools have continuously cut funding for music programs around the country. This increase in budget…
Building Empathy for the Colorblind with Virtual Reality
Our goal is to increase empathy for people that are colorblind and work towards positive social change by creating an educational virtual reality (VR)…