Schmid College is very pleased to announce the Paul A. Cook, General Manager of Irvine Ranch Water District, will deliver the keynote address for this year’s Schmid College of Science and Technology Commencement ceremony Sunday, May 21 at 10:30 a.m. on Wilson Field. The ceremony will also honor Joe Kiani, founder, Chairman, and CEO of Masimo,
The 2017 Faculty Honors Convocation was held Friday, May 12 in the Bush Conference Center of Beckman Hall, room 404, and Schmid College faculty were recipients of the highest honors awarded. 2017-2019 Wang-Fradkin Professorships Faculty Research and Development Council and the Provost’s Office selected Dr. Jennifer Funk, professor of biological sciences and director of the Biological Sciences program,
“Growing up female and lower working class, I was never encouraged to pursue physics, math, or computer science. This all changed when I came to Chapman University. Our faculty recognized and fostered my talents, so in turn I now pay their support forward.” At the end of year academic year, Dean of Students Jerry Price,
At the end of each academic year, Dean of Students Jerry Price, Ph.D. and his office celebrate remarkable achievements among the Chapman University undergraduate student body at the Campus Leadership Awards. Schmid College students took many honors, including three of the highest: the Ronald M. Huntington Award for Outstanding Scholarship, the Gloria and Julian Peterson
In the spirit of industry and discovery, Schmid College launched a new series of programming this past fall: Career Discovery Chats. For our pilot semester, we invited our Science Forum guest speakers to spend part of their time on campus meeting with students to discuss career paths, industry observations, and making the most of their
This year, Chapman Food Science took a break from the California winter and flew to Vietnam as part of their FSN 510 Food Industry Study Tour. The entire course was designed in partnership with Nong Lam University and their faculty from the Food Science and Technology Department. With 10 full days of traveling through southern
What better way to get hands-on policy experience than to go to our nation’s capital and lobby members of Congress for a proposed carbon fee and dividend legislation! Thanks to Student Government Association funding, Citizens’ Climate Lobby , and support from Schmid College faculty and staff, five Chapman students were able to go to Washington
Gage Kizzar, a high school student from Orange High School, was selected in 2015 as a Simon STEM Scholar. As part of the partnership between Chapman University, The Simon Foundations and Orange High School, Kizzar has worked with faculty members of Schmid College of Science and Technology during Fall 2015, Spring 2016 and Fall 2016
When I reflect upon being a scientist, three words come to mind: fascination, frustration, and exhilaration. A scientist’s fascination comes from the wonder of trying to understand and decipher the vast complexity of the world around us. Frustration creeps in as we discover how challenging that complexity is, and how unsophisticated some of our scientific
Thanks to a strong partnership with Experian Consumer Services and its president, Guy Abramo, Schmid College’s Director of Computer Science Undergraduate Programs and the Machine Learning and Assistive Technology Laboratory (MLAT Lab), Erik Linstead , lead a talk about his path to becoming a machine learning expert (geek) with 200+ Experian employees a recent company