Chapman University seniors, Maheen Kibriya and Shehzein Khan, are presenting at the 11th Annual Rocky Mountain Bioinformatics Conference in Colorado – a conference of the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) which is the largest international organization in computational biology. Integrating Biology and Computer Programming What makes this presentation unique – aside from the fact
Congratulations to the trio of stellar Computational and Data Science graduate students awarded scholarships through the Experian Scholars Program in High Performance Data Mining! Mr. Andrew Fontenot (Ph.D. program), Mr. Rene German (Master of Science program) and Ms. Chloe Martin (Master of Science program) have been announced as Experian Scholars and awarded full-tuition scholarships through the program. As modern environmental, biological, chemical
Tomorrow, Dr. Erik Linstead and his students will introduce AMP (Autism Management Platform), an integrated, web-based tool for creating, managing, and mining data associated with the treatment of children diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). AMP’s tablet-based mobile app and corresponding web interface allow parents, therapists, and doctors to share and aggregate multi-media data in real-time,
Schmid College is excited to announce that renowned social psychologist Dr. Philip Zimbardo will be on campus Thursday, February 20, 2014, to give a lecture about his work and receive his honorary doctor of science degree from Chapman University. During Zimbardo’s 2011 visit to Chapman University, he spoke about his journey from understanding evil to inspiring
Congratulations to food science graduate students Sabrina Davis and Brendan Wong! The two were recognized by National Association of Flavor and Food-Ingredient Systems ( NAFFS ) and awarded the association’s 2013 west coast scholarship award. Patrick Imburgia, West Coast Scholarship Chair and Flavor Chemist of Mission Flavors , presented the NAFFS West Coast scholarship awards
The Office of Graduate Admission and Schmid College of Science & Technology are pleased to host information sessions for the MS/MBA Food Science and the MS/PhD Computational & Data Science degrees. These sessions will be hosted by the program directors and admission representatives. There will also be current students presenting, as well as answering questions.
Chapman University’s continuing growth in the health sciences has been given a boost by a $15 million gift from Newport Beach couple Harry and Diane Rinker. The gift, announced at Saturday evening’s American Celebration gala, will name Chapman’s new health science campus in Irvine the Harry and Diane Rinker Health Science Campus. The funds will
Schmid College of Science and Technology is proud to host Elizabeth Gould, PhD, next month when she receives an honorary Doctor of Science from Chapman University. Named one of the 50 most important women in science by Discover magazine, Gould is considered to be the world’s most prolific researcher in neuroplasticity. For the past two decades, her
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 Prize in Physics for his prediction of the Higgs Boson particle, which has helped the world’s physicists solve some of the deepest mysteries of
Fall semester is in full swing, and while the weather may be cooling down, several outstanding students are just starting to heat things up. Earlier this semester, juniors and seniors in the Biochem, Molecular Biology, and Biology programs interviewed with Santa Ana-based medical technology company, Medtronic. After the interviews, six were selected to participate in