The Offices of the President, the Provost, and the Vice President for Research are pleased to announce the 19 recipients of the 2019 Faculty Opportunity Funds. The Faculty Opportunity Fund program was created in 2018 as a way to support Chapman University faculty in the development of new and innovative research, scholarship and creative activity. A total of $256,980 was awarded this year. This is an increase from 2018 in which $189,871 was awarded to 15 recipients.

Thirty-three (33) proposals totaling $427,592 were submitted to this competitive awards program. They were reviewed by four disciplinary faculty review panels consisting of faculty from Wilkinson College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences; Argyros School of Business and Economics; Dodge College of Film and Media Arts; Attallah College of Education Studies; Crean College of Health and Behavioral Sciences; College of Performing Arts; School of Pharmacy; and Schmid College of Science and Technology. Panel recommendations were made to Thomas Piechota, Vice President for Research; Laura Glynn, Faculty Fellow; and David Kost, Faculty Research and Development Council Chair. Congratulations to the following recipients:

Implementation and Evaluation of a Pharmacist Telemedicine Travel Service ($9,184)
Albert Bach, School of Pharmacy

Sex Panics Rhetorics–Queer Interventions ($1,000)
Ian Barnard, Wilkinson College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Science

Exploring California National Parks as a Source for Drug-Lead Discovery ($15,000)
Sherif Elshahawi, School of Pharmacy

Moorea and the Magic Kingdom ($15,000)
Christine Fugate, Dodge College of Film and Media Arts

Can the Water Stored in Wood Help Trees Withstand Climate Change? ($14,885)
Gregory Goldsmith, Schmid College of Science and Technology
Carter Berry, Schmid College of Science and Technology
Scott Allen, Schmid College of Science and Technology
William Anderegg, University of Utah
Christopher Doughty, Northern Arizona University
Barry Logan, Bowdoin College
Margaret Metz, Lewis and Clark College
Leighton Reid, Virginia Tech

Spotting Violence from Space: The Detection of Housing Destruction in Syria ($13,460)
Jonathan Hersh, Argyros School of Business and Economics
André Gröger, University Autonoma Barcelona
Andrea Matangra, Argyros School of Business and Economics & Smith Institute for Political Economy and Philosophy
Hannes Mueller, Institute of Economic Analysis 

An Integrated Approach to Assess Gait and Cue Walking Performance in Real-world Environments of Parkinson’s Patients ($14,909)
Niklas Ignasiak, Crean College of Health and Behavioral Sciences
Vincent Berardi, Crean College of Health and Behavioral Sciences
Cyril Rakoski, Schmid College of Science and Technology

Release of Vera Ivanova’s CD album ($10,000)
Vera Ivanova, College of Performing Arts

Poetry, Disability, and Inclusion: An Investigation and Application ($15,000)
Anna Leahy, Wilkinson College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences

Metal-Free Reduction of Carbon Dioxide by a Carbodiphosphorane Organocatalyst ($15,000)
Allegra L Liberman-Martin, Schmid College of Science and Technology

God, the US-Mexico Borderlands, and the Wall ($15,000)
Rafael Luévano, Wilkinson College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences 

Musical Theatre in a Global Market ($15,000)
Wilson Mendieta, College of Performing Arts

Provision of Dietary Ganglioside Enriches the Content and Composition of Ganglioside in Extracellular Vesicles Originating from Intestinal and Prostate Epithelial Cells ($15,000)
John Miklavcic, Schmid College of Science and Technology

A Mixed Method Research and Action Project to Promote Well-being and Campus Inclusion ($14,997)
Amy Moors, Crean College of Health and Behavioral Sciences

Uncovering How Molybdenum-nitrogenase Avoids Inhibition by the Environmental Gas Carbon Monoxide via a Possible Hydrocarbon Production Pathway ($14,564)
Cedric Owens, Schmid College of Science and Technology

Rational Design of Peptide Inhibitors of NF-kappa B Signaling ($15,000)
Simin Rahighi, School of Pharmacy
Keykavous Parang, School of Pharmacy
Innokentiy Maslennikov, School of Pharmacy

Architecture of Belonging ($14,980)
Michelle Samura, Attallah College of Educational Studies

Mindfulness as a Tool for Awareness, Compassion and Social Change ($14,321)
Gail Stearns, Wilkinson College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences
Fish Interfaith Center

Chapman Excavations at Cástulo: Synthesis, Analysis, and Final Publication of Results ($14,680)
Justin Walsh, Wilkinson College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences
Marcelo Castro López, Archaeological Ensemble of Cástulo
Diego López Martínez
Enrique Peregrin Pitto
Alejandra Macián Fuster
Eduardo Ruiz Castilla