Schmid College is pleased to announce the 2016-17 Schmid Student Leadership Council (SSLC)! The SSLC is a select group of Schmid College undergraduate and graduate students who serve as leaders and ambassadors for Schmid College of Science and Technology, as well as advisors to the Dean’s office and the faculty of Schmid College. “This is an
On Saturday, May 7, 2016, Schmid College of Science and Technology hosted its inaugural Program Honors & Capstone Conference. The event served as an opportunity for Schmid honors students to present their research to faculty, staff, peers and the public in a conference style setting that featured over 25 speakers and a formal breakfast.
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
We thought you ought to know – Schmid College has some new faculty members! But rather than ask them about important things like their research and experience ( which you can find here ), we figured we’d ask them trivial things that aren’t really relevant to, well, anything. Meet the new faculty members of 2015
In a big year for Schmid College, alumna Elizabeth Berrigan ’14 was among the few awarded the prestigious National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship in Physics and Astronomy – Theoretical Physics. NSF bestowed the grants to only the top 7% of applicants from an already elite pool. Berrigan, who double-majored in Physics and Biochemistry at Schmid College, said she felt Chapman University played a significant
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.
The Institute for Quantum Studies presents a lecture titled, God’s Dice: Quantum Mechanics from Einstein to the internet to the pernicious Influence of the future of the past, with Aephraim Steinberg from the University of Toronto, on Tuesday, December 9, 2014 at 5:30 – 6:30 p.m. in the Fish Interfaith Chapel. About the event:
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
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
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