On May 9, 2025, nine members of the Schmid College faculty were recognized with university awards: Mentorship of Undergraduate Research Award: Hagop Atamian and Cedric Owens Unit Faculty Excellence Award: Emily Adlam and Matthew Leifer Wang-Fradkin Junior Professorship Award: Jeremy Hsu Wang-Fradkin Senior Professorship Award: Rosalee Hellberg Valerie Scudder Award for Research: Emily Adlam Supporting Open
Congratulations to the Schmid College faculty members who were recently awarded tenure and/or promotion, effective at the beginning of the 2025-2026 academic year. Hagop Atamian Awarded Tenure and Promoted to Associate Professor of Biological Sciences Jeremy Hsu Awarded Tenure and Promoted to Associate Professor of Biological Sciences Matthew Leifer Awarded Tenure and Promoted to Associate
Please join us in welcoming Nicol R. Howard to Schmid College of Science and Technology. Howard will serve as an Associate Professor of Math Pedagogy. Howard brings over two decades of experience advancing equity in STEM education. Her research employs critical quantitative and mixed methodological approaches to examine learning experiences in mathematics and computer science,
Please join us in welcoming Christine O’Connell to Schmid College of Science and Technology. O’Connell will serve as an Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences. O’Connell is an ecosystem ecologist and global change scientist whose research focuses on how climate change and global change disturbances are altering terrestrial biogeochemical processes and patterns, particularly in soils. Her
Please join us in welcoming Daniel Dries (he/him) to Schmid College of Science and Technology. Dries will serve as a Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Chemistry Education Research. Born and raised in southeastern Pennsylvania, Dan earned his BS with Honors in Biochemistry from the University of Delaware. Dan then earned his Ph.D. in Biomedical Sciences
Please join us in welcoming Nadia Hirbawi (she/her) to Schmid College of Science and Technology. Hirbawi will serve as an Instructional Assistant Professor of Chemistry. Nadia completed her Ph.D. in organic chemistry this past spring and she is beginning her independent career at Chapman University. She has always been an artist at heart, and a
Please join us in welcoming Christian Jaureguy (he/him) to Schmid College of Science and Technology. Jaureguy will serve as a Instructor of Mathematics. Christian Jaureguy was previously an adjunct instructor here at Chapman. He recently coauthored a DEI statistics course that he hopes to teach for the first time this Spring. Christian also teaches cultural
Please join us in welcoming Nataliya Markina (she/her) to Schmid College of Science and Technology. Markina will serve as an Instructional Assistant Professor of Chemistry. Dr. Nataliya Markina is joining Chapman University as an Instructional Assistant Professor of Chemistry. She is passionate about incorporating active learning techniques in Organic Chemistry lectures and laboratories. Previously, she
Please join us in welcoming Kristianna Sarkan (she/her) to Schmid College of Science and Technology. Sarkan will serve as a Instructor of Biological Sciences. Kristianna Sarkan is an Instructional Assistant Professor of Biology. She received her BS in Biology from UC Irvine in 2015 and her Ph.D. in Biomedical Sciences from UC Irvine in 2022.
Please join us in welcoming Sam Stein (he/him) to Schmid College of Science and Technology. Stein will serve as an Instructional Assistant Professor of Environmental Science & Policy. Sam Stein’s work focuses on the restoration of aquatic systems such as rivers and wetlands, and he recently completed his Ph.D. in Geography at UC Berkeley. In