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
From CalTech to Stony Brook – our graduates are going places! Lena Buckendorf is heading to her first-choice dental school, the Dugoni School of Dentistry at the University of the Pacific. First, though, she’ll travel with Dr. Christopher Kim and several other students from his Kim Environmental Geochemistry (KEG) Lab to the international Goldschmidt Geochemistry Conference
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,
From Biology majors to football players, the University Singers is a group just as diverse as the student body at Chapman. For Tyler Johnson ‘17, his dream of medical school can be realized while continuing his career in music. Tyler is a freshman Biology major and Music minor from Maple Valley, Washington. He has been
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
Congratulations to the trio of stellar Computational and Data Science graduate students awarded scholarships through the Experian Scholars Program in High Performance Data Mining! Mr. Andrew Fontenot (Ph.D. program), Mr. Rene German (Master of Science program) and Ms. Chloe Martin (Master of Science program) have been announced as Experian Scholars and awarded full-tuition scholarships through the program. As modern environmental, biological, chemical
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
Fall semester is in full swing, and while the weather may be cooling down, several outstanding students are just starting to heat things up. Earlier this semester, juniors and seniors in the Biochem, Molecular Biology, and Biology programs interviewed with Santa Ana-based medical technology company, Medtronic. After the interviews, six were selected to participate in
It’s a small world, so the old saying goes. We’re all connected by six degrees of separation, according to the classic theory. And then there’s that whole Kevin Bacon thing. But what would happen if you tested out those ideas by using your Facebook connections? That’s what David Tyler ’15, a double major in mathematics
The Orange County register published an article November 1 highlighting the accomplishments of Chapman CS students in their development of the game ‘Axle’. The article details the way the students worked with the entrepreneurial start-up incubator eVillage to form an LLC and develop a business plan to continue to grow the game. The company they formed, Fallstreak