Dr. Cathleen Jones will be giving a talk about the Bayou Corne Louisiana sinkhole. Sinkholes are a major concern in costal areas. Her lecture, entitled, “Bayou Corne Louisiana Sinkhole: Precursory deformation and sinkhole expansion measured by radar interferometry” will be held Tuesday, April 8, 2014 in Argyros Forum 119B at 1:00 p.m. Cathleen E. Jones,
Join us Wednesday, March 19th at noon in Arygros Forum, room 119A . Katrine Whiteson, PhD, will present “Metabolites, Germs and People: Human-associated Microbial Communities in Health and Disease”. Dr. Whiteson studies how individual and persistent human-associated microbial and viral communities affect health. The talk will address how infection with a bacterial pathogen, vaccination, immune
By Ryan Burns, David Tyler, Erik Linstead School of Computational Sciences Students and faculty in Chapman University’s School of Computational Sciences are building an Autism Management Platform that will provide simple and intuitive communication among doctors, caregivers and parents of children diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder. One of the most common frustrations parents of children with
Join us Wednesday, March 5th at noon in Arygros Forum, room 119B . Michelle Digman, PhD, will present “Imaging the Molecular Dynamics of Focal Adhesion Proteins in Live Cells”. Molecular interactions and mobility can be studied in live cells as well as map the interactions of key focal adhesion proteins in real time and space.
Join us Wednesday, February 12th at noon in William Lyons Conference Center, Argyros Forum 209A . Kirsten Hirneisen, PhD, will present “Developing a Universal Enrichment Broth for Foodborne Bacterial Pathogens”. Foodborne bacterial pathogens have been the cause of high profile outbreaks lately that have resulted in serious illnesses, hospitalizations and deaths. The talk will address how successful prevention of
Over winter break, Chapman professor Hesham El-Askary traveled to the epicenter of political change to talk about another kind of change on everyone’s mind: climate change. Dr. El-Askary, associate professor Schmid College of Science and Technology and member of the Center of Excellence in Earth Systems Modeling & Observations , recently traveled to The American University in
Chapman University seniors, Maheen Kibriya and Shehzein Khan, are presenting at the 11th Annual Rocky Mountain Bioinformatics Conference in Colorado – a conference of the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) which is the largest international organization in computational biology. Integrating Biology and Computer Programming What makes this presentation unique – aside from the fact
Computational Science students Louis Ehwerhemuepha and Alexandria Smith traveled to Boston to make a poster presentation on October 23rd at the annual meeting of the American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG). They presented their research work titled: “A Novel Exact Case-Control Test for Association.” The real-world implications for this research is
Schmid College of Science and Technology is proud to host Elizabeth Gould, PhD, next month when she receives an honorary Doctor of Science from Chapman University. Named one of the 50 most important women in science by Discover magazine, Gould is considered to be the world’s most prolific researcher in neuroplasticity. For the past two decades, her
We invite you to attend our Science Forum Series , a free series of lectures designed to showcase recent research from our faculty and special guests. Special guest, Dr. Francis Edward Su , Professor of Mathematics at Harvey Mudd College, will share his latest research with undergraduate students titled Voting in Agreeable