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Doti Outstanding Graduate Student Award Given to Schmid College Postdoctoral Researcher Awarded to Wenzhao Li, Ph.D. '20 from Computational and Data Sciences Program

May 15, 2020 by Sarah Buckley | Uncategorized

Wenzhao Li, Ph.D. from the Computational and Data Sciences (CADS) program is the recipient of Chapman University’s 2020 James L. Doti Outstanding Graduate Student Award in the doctoral category. The Doti Award is the highest honor for graduate students at Chapman University. It is given out annually to one doctoral and one master’s student. The Doti

14 Schmid Student-Athletes Honored as Part of the SCIAC All-Academic Team

July 19, 2019 by Sarah Buckley | Uncategorized

The Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SCIAC) selected 221 of Chapman’s student-athletes for the 2018-19 All-Academic Team. Chapman had the fourth-most selections out of the nine schools in the SCIAC. Read Chapman’s official announcement here >> 14 out of Chapman’s 221 student-athletes honored were Schmid College students! To receive this All-Academic distinction, student-athletes must have

Science on Tap Welcomes New Moderator Spring 2019 season will be moderated by interim dean, Jason Keller, Ph.D.

January 4, 2019 by Sarah Buckley | News

This past fall, Science on Tap kicked off its fourth season in a new location. Chapman Crafted Beer, who has generously supported Chapman University events in the past, welcomed the series and local science enthusiasts to their location in Old Towne Orange. If you missed the fall lineup, you can watch episodes on our Schmid Facebook page.

To Science Students Everywhere: Don’t let midterms get you down Remember, all the fun and important stuff is challenging

March 30, 2017 by Justin Dressel | Uncategorized

Scientific American recently published a very insightful article, which may be timely for students as they take their midterm exams: “One Reason Young People Don’t Go Into Science? We Don’t Fail Well”. If you haven’t read it yet, I recommend it. This also seemed like a good time to send a message out all students: If

Simple Science: Making Your Own Summer Putty Dean Andrew Lyon offers an easy experiment to make with your kids this summer

July 7, 2016 by CJ Simonson | Uncategorized

Did you know that Chapman recently broke ground on its most innovative building to date? The 140,000 square-foot Center for Science and Technology is the manifestation of Chapman’s ongoing commitment to scientific advancement and discovery. Get your future Panthers in the scientific spirit with this engaging and silly experiment, recommended by Chapman’s own Andrew Lyon, Dean

Faculty Notes- February 2016 A collection of Schmid College faculty recent paper acceptances and publications, as well as upcoming presentations

February 15, 2016 by Schmid College | Uncategorized

Paper Acceptances & Publications Justin Dressel, PhD Journal: Physical Review A Title: Qubit measurement error from coupling with a detuned neighbor in circuit QED Authors: M. Khezri, J. Dressel, A. N. Korotkov Collaborations: UC Riverside, Chapman U Published: 11/5/2015 Abstract: In modern circuit QED architectures, superconducting transmon qubits are measurement via the state-dependent phase and

Justin Dressel: Grainy Digital Photographs

January 20, 2016 by Schmid College | Uncategorized

Dr. Justin Dressel, assistant professor of physics at Chapman University’s Schmid College of Science and Technology, was recently featured on WAMC’s The Academic Minute explaining, “how quantum physics has a lot to do with what shows up on your screen.” If you missed the live broadcast of Dressel’s The Academic Minute, its audio & transcript can be found

Dean’s Diversion: Communicating Science

August 9, 2015 by L. Andrew Lyon | Uncategorized

Science communication is something we do a great deal of here in Schmid College. Whenever we publish a blog post, help write a press release, or give a public lecture, I am reminded of an excellent PNAS paper entitled “Bringing values and deliberation to science communication” by Thomas Dietz from Michigan State. The basic premise

Dean’s Diversion: The Importance of Being Self-Critical

July 12, 2015 by L. Andrew Lyon | Uncategorized

As scientists and humans, we are all going to make errors in our work – hopefully those errors arise from honest mistakes and not bias. In experimental science, we are accustomed to performing research using the principles of the scientific method. We form a hypothesis, conduct an experiment, collect data, analyze and interpret the data,

Dean’s Diversion: Avoiding Pathological Science

June 28, 2015 by L. Andrew Lyon | Uncategorized

A particularly good read (whether you are a scientist or not) is Irving Langmuir’s classic Pathological Science lecture from 1953 (download the PDF). For most physical scientists, I imagine that the talk is well known. There are extensive websites on the subject, as well as the obligatory Wikipedia page, so there is no need to