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
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,
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
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
Two psychology students were recognized at the recent Ninety-Fourth Annual Convention of the Western Psychological Association (WPA) hosted by Western Oregon University April 24-27, 2014 in Portland, Oregon. Psychology major Netasha Pizano received a WPA Scholarship award, which was awarded at the awards ceremony and presidential address on the Friday evening of the event. Additionally, Christin Walder (center
This story originally appeared on Chapman’s Happenings blog. Read it in full here. A sophomore in the Chapman University Honors Program has won a top award for research examining the environmental and socioeconomic factors in rural India that contribute to life-threatening intestinal disease in children under five. Sohini Mukherjee ’16, a double major in English and psychology, won first place for
Two freshmen in the School of Computational Sciences, Sakthisundar “Sakthi” Kasthurirengan and Kathleen “Katie” Lamkin successfully presented their work at this year’s Python Conference (PyCon 2014) in Montreal, Canada. The annual PyCon conferences are the largest and most prestigious within the Python software community. The work they presented was an offshoot of their class project
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
Chapman University has three student teams participating in the 2014 Autism App Jam. This Friday, April 25, 2014, the competition will wrap up with judging, a public viewing and the awards reception from 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. the Beckman Center in Irvine. You’re invited to come to the event and support our Chapman teams.
Chapman University and Saddleback College have joined forces in an effort to create more graduates in the sciences. In a formal transfer admission guarantee (TAG) agreement signed by the two schools today, the partnership aligns Saddleback College’s science programs with Chapman’s Schmid College of Science and Technology majors and Crean College of Health and