RESEARCH WITH HUMAN SUBJECTS What is the current status of human subjects research at Chapman? Given the directives from the Orange County Health Department, it has been determined that research activities involving in-person interactions with subjects are suspended until further notice. The only exceptions are if canceling or postponing the activities would either (A) increase the risk to the subject’s safety or well-being or (B)
Tom Piechota, Vice President for Research and Rennolds Ostrom, Faculty Fellow in the Office of Research, will be holding two open meetings to promote dialogue on various activities that support faculty in research and creative activity. Topics include, but not limited to: Important update on Payment to Research Participants (Human Subjects) Updates on grant development
In collaboration with Provost Glenn Pfeiffer and Faculty Fellow Rennolds Ostrom, I would like to announce the 3rd year of the Faculty Opportunity Fund program that provides competitive merit-based support for short-term non-renewable projects as described below. These projects are intended to support Chapman University faculty in the development of new and innovative research, scholarship
Chapman University is excited to announce the first support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for more than $417,000. The support for the California Special Education Residency Projects grant will help fund research and training to remove barriers facing students with disabilities. Chapman will be partnering with the University of Kansas and the University
Please join us at the joint seminar presented by the Office of Research and the Computational and Data Science (CADS) program Observing the Terrestrial Water Cycle from Space Dr. Venkataraman (Venkat) Lakshmi – University of Virginia This talk will present innovations for downscaling soil moisture to 1km and its validation with ground and
Please join the Office of Research in welcoming Megan Faulkner to Crean College of Health and Behavioral Sciences as our new Sponsored Project Analyst. Megan received her BA in Psychology and Social Behavior from the University of California, Irvine (UCI) and has over 14 years of experience in human subjects health and development research centering
The IRB committee recently updated the Guidelines for Recruitment of Research Participants to include a section on “Recruitment Using Electronic Media” This new section is more inclusive (e-mails, websites, listservs, etc.), does a better job of defining terms (or at least providing examples), and have concrete recommendations. Please contact us at irb@chapman.edu or via phone at
The third annual State of Research and Creative Activity will be held on Friday, October 18, 2019 at 3:30 P.M. in Beckman 404 – George Bush Conference Center. This year, President Daniele Struppa and Vice President for Research Tom Piechota will recognize select faculty and students, and the sponsors who support their research and creative
The Fall 2019 National Science Foundation (NSF) Grants Conference is November 18-19, 2019 in Boston, Massachusetts at the Boston Marriott Cambridge. These events are primarily designed to provide new faculty, researchers, and administrators with key insights into a wide range of current issues at NSF, including proposal preparation and merit review basics, award management topics
For the fourth year in a row, the Kay Family Foundation Data Analytics program has granted Chapman University faculty awards. Like previous years, faculty were asked to submit proposals that were data intensive in nature and that used model-based or data analytic approaches for developing new knowledge, as well as proposals that created the possibility