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ORANGE, Calif. – Chapman University in Orange, CA, is hosting Startup Weekend Orange County for budding entrepreneurs November 22 through 23, 2013. This is the fifth Startup Weekend Orange County hosted by Chapman with the three-day event selling out each time.

Startup Weekend is an intense 54 hour event that focuses […]

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Chapman University’s continuing growth in the health science has been given a boost by a $15 million gift from Newport Beach couple Harry and Diane Rinker, announced at this evening’s American Celebration gala on the Chapman campus in Orange. The gift will name Chapman’s new health science campus in Irvine “The Harry and Diane Rinker Health Science Campus.”

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The landmark musical “Spring Awakening” will rock the stage of Chapman University’s Waltmar Theatre Oct. 24-26 and Nov. 7-9 as Chapman’s Department of Theatre presents its second production this fall. The winner of eight Tony Awards and hailed as “the most explosive musical since ‘Rent’” (Star-Ledger), “Spring Awakening” celebrates the unforgettable journey from youth to adulthood as teenage confusion and desperation collide with passion and ignorance.

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– Dr. Tollaksen congratulates François Englert - 

– Nobel Prize Press Release –


François Englert, a Belgian theoretical physicist, and Distinguished Visiting Professor in Residence and founding member of the Institute for Quantum Studies at Chapman University in California, has won the 2013 Nobel […]

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ORANGE, Calif. — Chapman University’s Leatherby Center for Entrepreneurship will host its fourth annual Entrepreneur of the Year Award Dinner honoring serial entrepreneur, Angel investor, and venture capitalist Jeff Kearl. The dinner will take place Feb. 27, 2014, in Chapman University’s Sandhu Conference Center.

Kearl is […]

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Jim Taulli, has been tapped to direct the Chapman University Department of Theatre’s next production, “Spring Awakening,” which will run October 24-26 and November 7-9 in Chapman’s Waltmar Theatre. The winner of eight Tony Awards, including Best Musical, “Spring Awakening” is a rock musical adaptation of Frank Wedekind’s 1891 German expressionist dramatic masterpiece about teenage self-discovery. Wedekind’s frank and, for its time, shocking play, subtitled “A Children’s Tragedy,” was banned in Germany for some time because it included themes of sex, homosexuality, child abuse and rape.

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Xander Berkeley (“24,” “Nikita”), Sarah Clarke (“Twilight,” “24” ) and Sterling Sulieman (“The Vampire Diaries,” “Pretty Little Liars”) will read short stories by NYC writer David Means.


Orange, Calif. — Following a standing-room-only debut in September, the Chapman University English Department will once again host WordTheatre®’s Actor/Author Series […]

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ORANGE, Calif. – François Englert, a Belgian theoretical physicist, and currently affiliated with the Institute for Quantum Studies at Chapman University in California, has received the coveted “Citation Laureate” title from the worldwide news organization Thomson Reuters. Englert’s long-time theory concerning the Brout-Englert-Higgs Boson particle was recently confirmed by scientists […]

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Environmental Honor Goes to the Renovated Historic Structure, Once a Segregated “Mexican School,” Which Now Houses Chapman’s Human Development Research Program

ORANGE, Calif. — The historic Cypress Street Schoolhouse in Old Towne Orange – once a segregated “Mexican school” and now owned by Chapman University and renovated to house the […]

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ORANGE, California – Chapman University Fowler School of Law has added prominent Orange County businessman Parker Kennedy to its Board of Advisors. Kennedy is the current chairman and former CEO of The First American Corporation, a FORTUNE 500® company with revenues exceeding $8 billion. In June of 2010, the title […]

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