This spring, the Hashinger Science Labs will open their doors again on Friday, April 1, 2016 from 3:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. The Science Labs Open House is open to all– Chapman campus and beyond– so please join us. The Kim Environmental Geochemistry (KEG) and Marine Invertebrate Biology (MIB) programs held an open house on
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.
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
Starting at the beginning of spring semester on Wednesday and Friday mornings, I would head out to the University of California at Irvine’s Extension Center near the Great Park. At this site, I have been working with Dr. Jennifer Funk and her lab technician, Julie Larson, on a project assessing how water availability influences leaf
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
On December 10, 2014, Office of Undergraduate research hosted its Fall 2014 Chapman University Student Research Day. View the Fall 2014 Abstract Volume. Mark your calendar for the Spring 2015 event on May 13. Hosted by the Office of Undergraduate Research and starting from the wee hour of 8:00 a.m. and going to 5:00 p.m. on December 10, the Fall
Healthy eating is becoming a rising trend in American society. Capturing big names like Michelle Obama in her “Let’s Move ” initiative, the USDA has proven that Americans are choosing healthier, fresher foods, but is there more to look out for? With Salmonella and E. coli on the American radar since the outbreaks in
This article, written by Joe Yogerst, originally appeared on the Los Angeles Times website. One of the nation’s leading authorities on big data retrieval, Erik Linstead is an assistant professor of computer science in the School of Computational Sciences at Chapman University’s Schmid College of Science and Technology. We asked him why big data retrieval is so important right now
This article, written by Joe Yogerst, originally appeared on the Los Angeles Times website. With job prospects in food science expected to grow 10% over the next six years according to the U.S. Department of Labor, Chapman University is helping to meet this demand by offering a master of science in food science. At Chapman’s Schmid College of
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