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Chapman University’s world-renowned program for Holocaust education is presenting an interfaith Service of Remembrance for Kristallnacht Thursday evening, November 9. The event will feature a conversation with Holocaust survivor and witness to Kristallnacht Engelina Lowenberg Billauer, as well as video clips from three other survivors of Kristallnacht. The event will take place in the Fish […]

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Chapman University’s Dodge College of Film and Media Arts, recognized as one of the premiere film schools in the United States, is responding to rapidly expanding growth in the television industry with a distinctive Master of Fine Arts in in Television Writing and Production beginning in fall 2018. Ranked #6 in the country by The […]

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Chapman University has earned the largest federal research grant in the university’s history. The National Institutes of Health/National Institute on Aging awarded a $3.7 million grant to Hillard Kaplan, Ph.D., to pursue his research on Alzheimer’s disease. The five-year grant will support Dr. Kaplan’s work with the Tsimane people in Bolivia, as part of […]

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Chapman University recently completed its fourth annual Chapman University Survey of American Fears (2017). The survey asked respondents about 80 different fears across a broad range of categories including fears about the government, the environment, terrorism, health, natural disasters, and finances, as well as fears of public speaking, spiders, heights, ghosts and many […]

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Chapman University announced a $21 million gift from the W. M. Keck Foundation for enhancement and elevation of Chapman’s science and engineering. The gift will name the University’s soon-to-be completed science building on its main campus—The Keck Center for Science and Engineering. Nationally recognized for supporting outstanding science and engineering and medical research, this gift […]

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Chapman University rose to No. 5 in its category in the annual U.S. News & World Report “Best Colleges” list. This year’s ranking is the highest ever earned by Chapman in the list of Regional Universities West.

In addition, Chapman was one of just five Western Region schools included in the category of “Best Undergraduate […]

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Chapman University’s Dale E. Fowler School of Law has received a $1.125 million gift from local law firm Bergener Mirejovsky, APC.  This represents one of the largest gifts in the history of the Fowler School of Law.  James M. Bergener and alumnus Samuel Mirejovsky have been long-time supporters of the Fowler School of Law.

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Chapman University’s Argyros School of Business and Economics has hired a new director for its entrepreneurship center. Starting September 1, 2017, Matthew Hanson, Ph.D., will serve as the new director of the Ralph W. Leatherby Center for Entrepreneurship and Business Ethics and as Clinical Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship at Chapman University.

Dr. Hanson […]

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Chapman University’s Rodgers Center for Holocaust Education will host a conversation on the Armenian Genocide with distinguished scholars and Chapman University Presidential Fellows Dr. Richard Hovannisian and Dr. David Crowe.  Their conversation will focus on recent research on the Armenian Genocide, including the foreign office records of Germany, Turkey’s most important ally during World […]

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Chapman University Dodge College of Film and Media Arts adjunct professor Frank Chindamo developed an app to help hospital healthcare providers and patients laugh more. He tested his LaughMD app with Chapman Marriage and Family Therapy graduate students and the results showed laughter is “good medicine” for health care providers, too.

Chindamo has a […]

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