{"id":353,"date":"2020-09-17T18:01:36","date_gmt":"2020-09-17T18:01:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogschapman.wpenginepowered.com\/gci\/2020\/09\/17\/celebrating-another-year-of-success\/"},"modified":"2020-09-17T18:01:36","modified_gmt":"2020-09-17T18:01:36","slug":"celebrating-another-year-of-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/gci\/2020\/09\/17\/celebrating-another-year-of-success\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating Another Year of Success!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The new semester is underway and it sure looks different from this time last year. However, we&#8217;ve had the pleasure of (virtually) meeting the students in our first-year foundations grand challenges courses these past few weeks and there is one thing that does not seem to have changed: the students&#8217; motivation for learning about science and engineering.<\/p>\n<p>As you will see in the attached report of our 2019-2020 activities, the Grand Challenges Initiative had an absolutely outstanding year. 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