Awards/Scholarships - Summer Student Researchers Needed! Archive - The Voice of Wilkinson

Wilkinson’s BURN program is NOW accepting applications Summer Student Researchers Needed!

April 18, 2018 by Laura Silva | News

Attention Faculty and Students! Wilkinson’s BURN program is NOW accepting applications for summer student researchers. The program encompasses both scholarship and creative activity and offers funding to faculty student partnerships that provide students with the opportunity to participate in original research/creative activity, develop their skills, and broaden their knowledge in practical and demonstrable ways. If

War and Society Represents Chapman Students Present at National Conference in Louisville

April 13, 2018 by Gregory Daddis | News

Four graduate students from the MA Program in War and Society presented their research at the annual Society for Military History (SMH) Conference this past weekend in Louisville, Kentucky. More than 650 people attended the conference at which Chapman University students discussed their work using materials from the Center of American War Letters. During the

Mark Chapin Johnson Foundation Supports the War and Society Program

December 5, 2017 by Greg Daddis | News

Chapman University’s Wilkinson College is excited to announce that the Mark Chapin Johnson Foundation has recently donated $100,000 to fund five $20,000 student scholarships for the MA Program in War and Society. The master of arts program falls under the newly created Center for the Study of War and Society at Chapman. Professor Jennifer Keene,

Alumni Publishes First Novel Just Beyond the Shining River

October 26, 2017 by Laura Silva | News

Wilkinson’s very own MFA Creative Writing and MA English Alumni, Lynnette Beers, is releasing her first novel on November 1, Just Beyond the Shining River. We are so proud and want to congratulate her! About the book … After she gave up a promising career as an artist and turned her back on her British

Seen and (goat) herd 2017 Schweitzer Award winner gives others the tools to succeed and sustain

October 6, 2017 by Laura Silva | News

Christine Curry ’95, sociology, might not get your goat in particular, but she has overseen more than 50 goats, at various points in the life of the Grenada Goat Dairy, which is a sustainable, community-building and educational dairy farm at the Belmont Estate in St. Patrick, Grenada. The 2017 Schweitzer Award winner talks about her

A Schweitzer Rising Star takes “Action in Africa” Sarah Nininger '13 completes a journey begun in high school, continues to expand the adventure

October 6, 2017 by Laura Silva | News

“There is no separating my life from my work,” says Sarah Nininger ’13, B.A. Integrated Educational Studies. Her friends back in the U.S. are getting married, having families, buying homes. She’s trying to figure out how incorporate a plot of land that came with her building in Uganda into a community gardening project. Sarah Nininger

Professor Victoria Carty honored for work with Higher Ground Wells Fargo partners with Angels to recognize service

October 3, 2017 by Laura Silva | News

That smiling face on the Angel Stadium scoreboard Sept. 20 was Chapman University’s Victoria Carty, Ph.D., an associate professor of sociology in the Wilkinson College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences. Carty was honored before the game as a Wells Fargo Home Run Hero for her work with Higher Ground, an Anaheim nonprofit that provides

Bausch attends Italian premiere before film’s opening in France 'Endangered Species' is based on Chapman author's stories

September 12, 2017 by Laura Silva | News

Standing on the Red Carpet was fun, and very odd–I mean I’ve been photographed many times in public settings, but never by paparazzi. The cameras sounded like a lot of buzzing insects. The photographers were all shouting at once: “Look this way. Look up. Look down. Over here.” I leaned slightly toward Alice Isaaz, the

Harmon Wilkinson Award Goes To … Mr. Derrell Roberts ’81

May 30, 2017 by Laura Silva | News

Mr. Derrell Roberts (’81) – CEO/Co-Founder Roberts Family Development Center was presented with the Harmon Wilkinson Award for Distinguished Contribution to the Arts, Humanities, or Social Sciences at Wilkinson College’s 2017 Commencement. Congratulations Mr. Roberts! ABOUT THE THE WINNER: In 2001 Derrell Roberts ’81 and wife, Tina, co-founded the Roberts Family Development Center (RFDC) located

Wilkinson Alumna Publishes Book Cut The Thread

May 16, 2017 by Laura Silva | News

In September 2016, Chapman University, Wilkinson College alumna, Danielle M. Walters (’10, MFA Creative Writing and MA English) had her first book published, Cut The Thread. About the book: When a man falls from a balcony during a concert of Stravinsky’s Petrushka, a mystery begins to unfold in the local newspaper. In a dreamlike, whimsical vision