The Tide Turns at OURCA: New Director Julye Bidmead, PhD. takes the helm and announces big news!
Change is in the air here at Chapman University. With the Keck Center nearly standing in completion, acceptances rolling out to future panthers, and spring air sweeping through Atallah Plaza, it is no surprise that change has infiltrated the Office of Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity. Though we are saddened that Dr. Anna Leahy has
Axiomatization and partial algebras with Sarah Alexander ('18) and Nadiya Upegui ('18)
In the academic off-season, Chapman University welcomes motivated students across all disciplines to OURCA’s Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) program. While many students are tanning at the Southern California beaches, selected students, along with a faculty mentor, spend over 30 hours a week immersed in their proposed research project. Math majors Sarah Alexander (’18) and
Go SURFing with OURCA! Attend the Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship Information Session on February 12th!
College summers aren’t for sleeping. As future innovators, academics, and professionals, Chapman University undergraduates are encouraged to use semester breaks wisely, pursuing opportunities to aide future development. But what student isn’t tired of countless thankless unpaid internships? Are you ready to take your academic experience into your own hands? Do you have an idea or
Center for Undergraduate Excellence is thrilled to announce the Fall 2017 Grant Recipients!
The Center for Undergraduate Excellence prides itself on the capacity to help fund student lead undergraduate academic and artistic inquiry via grant awards each semester here at Chapman University. These grant awards are intended to provide support for faculty-mentored but student conducted projects, by supplying necessary funds to purchase equipment or materials, cover rental or
Professor Anna Leahy, PhD. will be stepping down as OURCA Director
With bittersweet sentiments, OURCA announces that Professor Anna Leahy, PhD. will be stepping down as OURCA Director, effective at the start of Spring 2018. Though we are saddened to be losing her as a creative and innovative force at the helm of our offices, we share in her excitement as Dr. Leahy moves on to
Student Profile: Morgan Kindel ('19)
Most would agree that personal memories bear influence on our everyday behaviors and decisions. But what if the way we remember is impaired? Does the strength of episodic memory, the type of memory that is responsible for creating personal recollections of daily life events, relate to the manifestation of maladaptive choices? This is the crux
Papers and plane tickets: Chapman Students Visit Dublin for Undergraduate Awards
It isn’t every day that a homework assignment turns into a trip Dublin. For Chapman University students, Paige Gulley, Shannon Anarella, and Sarah Lemay, undergraduate coursework became a mark of international academic distinction. The Undergraduate Awards is the leading international undergraduate awards program that recognizes exemplary undergraduate work. This non-profit organization shares Chapman’s emphasis on
Carolyn Forché to address the Chapman Community December 6th!
Chapman University is thrilled to welcome award-winning “poet of witness” Carolyn Forché as the keynote speaker and honored guest at Student Research Day this fall. Forché has authored four lauded books of poetry, in addition to her published anthologies, Against Forgetting: Twentieth Century Poetry of Witness and The Poetry of Witness: The Tradition in English,
You've done the all the research. But now what??
It’s a familiar feeling: hands shaking, word stuttering, breath shallowing. Presenting your work can be an unnerving experience, even for the most seasoned researcher. Despite months, years, decades of academic inquiry, gaining the confidence to design and present your hard work is not always intuitive to the academic. Especially as undergraduate researchers, new to the
It's a wrap on DRAW!
Chapman University’s inaugural Discover Research and Arts Week was a smashing success! Though the festivities have come to a close and the hype has died down, the buzz about undergraduate research and creative activity continues to pulsate around campus. Looking back on DRAW there are so many exciting and inspirational highlights: Did you hear about