Assistant Professor Jason Keller, Ph.D., along with a team of scientists, has been awarded a three-year, $1 million federal grant to study peatland warming. Their work is part of a long-term study organized by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory and aimed at tracking bogs’ decomposition and impact on global warming. Chapman’s share of
Louis Ehwerhemuepha, a graduate student in the Master of Computational Sciences program, is presenting his research study titled “Codon Analysis on the Cloud: Making the Case for Local MapReduce Aggregation” at Supercomputing 2012 (SC12). To fund his trip to the Salt Lake City conference, Ehwerhemuepha applied for a travel grant. The conference awarded a grant to fully
Dr. Walter Piper, professor of Biological Sciences, will be featured on The Academic Minute, a nationally syndicated educational radio program, Wednesday, November 14. Dr. Piper will be speaking about his studies in loons and their territorial nature. Dr. Walter Piper has studied territoriality of Common Loons since 1993 in Oneida County, Wisconsin. Click here for the podcast of
Those blue-marble satellite images of Earth during a natural disaster are among the most powerful pictures we have whenever a hurricane, dust storm or wildfire strikes our planet. Most of us turn to newscasts to see them. But as Hurricane Sandy churned toward the Eastern Seaboard, Associate Professor Hesham El-Askary made his own. El-Askary is
Dr. Brennan Peterson, Associate Professor of Psychology and Director of Marriage and Family Therapy program, was cited in an article in the Canadian news website Maclean’s. The article, “Thirty-Seven and Counting”, highlights the misconceptions currently held about women’s fertility. The age at which women experience a decline in fertility is much younger than we believe,
Faculty researchers interested in sharing their work with students or connecting with their fellow campus researchers are encouraged to participate in the second annual university-wide Faculty Research Expo on Nov. 12 from 4 to 6 p.m. in the Argyros Forum Ballroom. Faculty members interested in presenting at the expo are asked to indicate their interest
Dr. Tatiana Prytkova, assistant professor in Chemistry, has received a research grant from the Research Corporation for Science Advancement (RCSA) to study “The Protein Structure and Mobility Control of Electron Transfer Reactions in Ru-Modified Proteins.” Dr. Prytkova is using her research to improve efficiency in solar power, which could help lead the energy revolution. “These
The Science Forum Series kicks off the fall semester Wednesday, Aug. 29, at noon, in Argyros Forum 119A with a talk by Satish C. Singh, professor, at the Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, France, and the University of Cambridge, England. Singh’s talk is titled “Birth and Death of Oceanic Crust: Ocean Spreading Centers
She dodged lightning storms to scoop water from Corpus Christi Bay off the Gulf of Mexico, encountered “interesting” bugs, swam in an ocean warm as a bubble bath, and watched her colleagues’ research discovery make the evening news. In other words, it was a pretty good summer for Jennifer Feinstein ’14, a National Science Foundation
The famous swallows of Mission San Juan Capistrano have gone missing in recent years, and it’s professor Walter Piper’s mission to lure them back to the historical nesting site. His efforts have recently become fruitful; he discovered a swallow breeding colony only 1/4 of a mile from the historic Mission. Details of his findings can