Chapman University receives $1 million Grant from Keck Foundation for Chemistry Undergraduate Program
Chapman University’s continuing growth in the sciences has been given a $1 million boost from the W.M. Keck Foundation. The Foundation awarded Chapman the Undergraduate Education Grant, which will provide funding to purchase new, cutting-edge instrumentation to be used to transform chemistry undergraduate teaching, learning and research at the University. “We are thrilled the Keck
Science Behind Nutrition: Careers in giving food more substance
This article, written by Joe Yogerst, originally appeared on the Los Angeles Times website. With job prospects in food science expected to grow 10% over the next six years according to the U.S. Department of Labor, Chapman University is helping to meet this demand by offering a master of science in food science. At Chapman’s Schmid College of
A New App to Help Autism Is On the Horizon
This article, written by David Ogul, originally appeared on the Los Angeles Times website. As researchers at Chapman University break new ground in mining big data, an app developed by a group of its students is poised to take that knowledge to the next level — a practical, Internet-based tool that could help parents and caregivers make the
Big Data Is Changing Healthcare
This article, written by David Ogul, originally appeared on the Los Angeles Times website. There’s a lot of information out there about healthcare – an estimated 500 petabytes’ worth of data that could hold the key to better diagnoses and even better treatment of everything from Alzheimer’s disease and cancer to diabetes. The question is,
Tales of Two Colors: Dr. Ali Nayeri on Primordial Gravitational Waves
On March 17, 2014, a team of astrophysicists announced the physics of what happened in the first one trillionth, of a trillionth of a trillionth of a second after the so-called Big Bang. The American team — also known as BICEP2 — announced these findings of what the science community calls the detection of primordial
2014 Schmid College Commencement
Commencement weekend for the Class of 2014 is THIS weekend: May 22-24, 2014. Schmid College of Science and Technology’s ceremony will take place on Saturday, May 24, 2014, from 11:30 a.m. until 12:45 p.m., followed by a reception in Escalette Plaza. Schmid College will graduate the largest class of its history this Saturday– 276 of you at
Dr. Chris Kim awarded 2014 Senior Wang-Fradkin Professorship
Schmid College professor, Dr. Christopher Kim, was awarded Chapman University’s elite Senior Wang-Fradkin Professorship at the 19th Annual Chapman University Faculty Honors Convocation, held Friday, May 16, 2014, in the George H.W. Bush Conference Center. Chancellor Daniele Struppa, Ph.D., presented the Senior Wang-Fradkin Professorship to Christopher Kim, Ph.D., associate professor in the School of Earth
May 13: Psi Chi Spring 2014 Induction
Psi Chi Honors Society will be hosting its Spring Induction to welcome in new members. There will be a brief presentation section talking about the history and its values, followed by the formal induction, and ending with students getting refreshments and mingling. The event will be mainly focused on the new members, but it will
Chapman University Student Research Day on Wed. May 14th
The Office of Undergraduate Research’s annual, campus-wide Chapman University Student Research Day is almost here! On Wednesday, May 14, 2014 the breadth and depth of Chapman students’ scholarly and creative work will be on display. Schmid College students submitted 98 abstracts for this year’s Student Research Day. That is more than all other colleges combined. A total
May 8: Computational Sciences Research Seminar with Dr. Hendrik De Bie
The School of Computational Sciences invites you to its research seminar this week: When: Thursday May 8th 2014 at 4pm (tea and cookies at 3:30pm) Where: Von Neumann Hall Speaker: Dr. Hendrik De Bie, Assistant-professor, Clifford Research Group, Ghent University Title: Convolutions for the quaternion Fourier transform with applications in image processing. Dr. De Bie’s Abstract: “In this