Schmid College saw its current students and alumni alike receive prestigious distinctions for the 2015 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. Of over 16,000 applicants vying for grants to fund their research, only 2,000 received awards.
Chapman University’s Food Science Graduate Program hosted its 4 th Annual Food Industry Networking night on April 1, 2015. This year’s event, co-hosted by first year students Emma Gottschall and Alex Hoang, saw over 110 food industry professionals, alumni and current students exchange ideas, reconnect with professors and colleagues, and, of course swap business cards!
Schmid College did not have to wait long for its young Environmental Science and Policy program to sprout an impressive alumna. Madison Hoffacker ’13, a recent graduate with a grass-roots foundation in the program, co-authored and published a paper in Nature Climate Change. Hoffacker was one of the first four students to officially declare a
This research story starts during my sabbatical leave way back in 2009. I talked two Chapman students — John Berriman ’11 and Daniel Goldstein — into taking a research-diving certification course so that we could go under water at night to present yucchy sea hares to lobsters inside and outside the USC Wrigley Marine Science
We caught up with alumna Rachael Gordon recently on what she has been up to since graduating from Chapman University in 2012 with a BS in Biological Sciences. She has certainly been busy! On May 14th, she will graduate from University of Southern California with her Masters of Public Health (MPH), emphasis in Epidemiology and
Rhondi Shigemura ’90 graduated from Chapman University with a M.S. in Food Science and Nutrition. After hearing about Chapman University through her former colleagues at ConAgra, Shigemura looked into pursuing her food science studies here while still working full-time. Shigemura now works at Jenny Craig as the Director of Research and Development in Carlsbad, California. She has, “oversight
Elizabeth Berrigan is one of Chapman’s shining stars. Starting this fall she’ll be aiming for a Ph.D. in theoretical physics at State University of New York at Stony Brook. She obtained her first degree from Chapman last May in biochemistry, and her second Chapman degree last December in physics. This semester, she is completing research at MIT and in January,
In March, Chapman’s Student Philanthropy Initiative held its annual Thank-A-Donor event, which over the course of three days gave students the opportunity to hand-write thank you notes to alumni donors. During this event, Chapman students from all colleges got a chance to show alumni donors the impact of their generosity and demonstrate how this generosity is
The Second Annual Food Industry Networking Night was a big success for our MS Food Science students! It was held the evening of March 19, 2014, in the George H.W. Bush Conference Center in Beckman Hall. 96 people attended, with 33 companies represented by industry representatives, alumni and current students. There were 36 industry reps/alumni,
Nicole Law ’12, a graduate of Chapman University’s Food Science master’s program, recently shared her experience journeying from China to Chapman University and then starting her career with her current job as Food Safety Coordinator at Frieda’s. You can watch her profile above. Food Science is the discipline in which scientists use biology, chemistry, physical sciences,