An all-star celebrity cast – including Oscar nominee Laura Dern, Gary Cole, Antwone Fisher and Ken Howard, as well as “Dear Abby” columnist Abigail Van Buren (Jeanne Phillips) – will bring to life the battlefront letters of American military men and women and their family members in the play If All the Sky Were Paper, to be performed for one night only – Monday, June 9 at 7:30 p.m. – in the Kirk Douglas Theatre.
Continue Reading →Please join us to attend and cover one of Orange County’s major annual business events: Chapman University’s mid-year Economic Forecast Update, issued by the A. Gary Anderson Center for Economic Research. This presentation by Professors Jim Doti and Esmael Adibi updates and revises the university’s Economic Forecast presented last December.
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KCETLink, the national independent public transmedia organization, is pleased to announce that it is expanding its partnership with Chapman University with new programming initiatives including the university’s award-winning interview series DIALOGUE WITH DOTI and a special Huell Howser marathon featuring episodes from CALIFORNIA’S GOLD, CALIFORNIA’S GOLDEN PARKS and ROAD TRIP series.
Continue Reading →Honorary Doctorate in Humane Letters Will Be Conferred During Chapman’s College of Educational Studies Commencement Ceremony, 4:30 p.m.
ORANGE, Calif., May 15, 2014 – Oscar-nominated, Emmy Award-winning actor and humanitarian Edward James Olmos (“Battlestar Galactica,” “Stand and Deliver,” “Miami Vice,” “Blade Runner”) will receive an honorary doctorate from Chapman University during the Commencement ceremony for […]
Continue Reading →Chapman University will graduate the largest class in its history – 1,519 seniors and 754 graduate degree candidates – during its spring Commencement festivities May 22-24.
Honorary doctoral degrees will be presented to actor and activist Edward James Olmos (“Battlestar Galactica,” “Miami Vice”) by the College of Educational Studies; Cathy Schulman, president of Mandalay Pictures, by Dodge College of Film and Media Arts; and by the law school to philanthropist and real estate developer Dale E. Fowler, who with his wife Sarah Ann gave $55 million to name the Dale E. Fowler School of Law.
Continue Reading →An elite group of five top Chapman University vocal music students will travel to Boston, Mass. June 6-8 to offer three showcase performances in the area. The vocalists’ program at the first two venues – Friend Recital Hall at Berklee College of Music and The Community House in South Hamilton — will include operatic standards and musical theater selections. The group’s third performance, during the Sunday worship service at Eliot Church in Newton, Mass., will include religious and oratorio selections as well as some secular music.
Continue Reading →A first-of-its-kind public/private partnership between Chapman University’s College of Educational Studies, UC Irvine’s School of Medicine, CHOC, the Thompson Family Foundation, and Children and Families Commission of OC, the center will focus on active support for children and families affected by autism
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A Public Talk by McNally and Performances of His Works by Chapman Theatre Students Highlight the Event – Tickets Available Now
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– Four-time Tony Award-winning playwright Terrence McNally (“Master Class,” “Kiss of the Spider Woman,” “Ragtime,” “Love! Valour! Compassion!”) will visit Chapman University on Friday and […]
At a meeting earlier today, the Chapman University Board of Trustees officially named Chapman’s chancellor, Daniele Struppa, Ph.D., as “presidential designate” and successor to President Jim Doti, Ph.D., when Doti eventually retires. The Chapman Faculty Senate last Friday also voted to approve Struppa as the eventual successor to the university presidency.
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The joy that the late TV legend Huell Howser shared with generations of Californians infuses a new permanent exhibit, “That’s Amazing! Thirty Years of Huell Howser and California’s Gold,” sponsored by the Automobile Club of Southern California and housed in Chapman University’s Leatherby Libraries. The public is invited to an open house launching the new exhibit on Saturday, March 29 on the Chapman campus in Orange, from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. The event will also mark the world premiere of a new documentary film, also sponsored by the Auto Club: “A Golden State of Mind: The Storytelling Genius of Huell Howser,” created by Chapman film professor Jeff Swimmer, which will be screened four times in Chapman’s Memorial Hall during the open house event.
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