Chapman University’s two teams (six students each) just returned from the California Regional Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl competition at CSU Chico, held on Saturday, December 3, 2016. Both teams did extremely well. One team advanced to the semi-finals, where they narrowly lost to the team that won the tournament. This is Chapman’s second year of participation
Shoshana Feld-Sobol Strategic and Corporate Communication (’17) Chapman University is an educational institution whose mission is to provide academic instruction to each and every student in their particular line of study. As students, we learn the discipline of our major, the nuances involved in our minor or cluster, and we get to dabble in the
By Rafael Luévano Associate Professor Department of Religious Studies Fulbright awards are offered to scholars, businesspersons, artists, and students to travel to foreign countries to establish cooperative working relationships and promote mutual understanding between peoples and nations. For the 2015–2016 academic year, I was awarded the Fulbright-García Robles Fellowship for my travel to,
Earlier this month Dr. Crystal Murphy (Political Science) and her student, Atty McLellan, gave a poster presentation at the Effective Altruism Global Conference at UC Berkeley. Dr. Murphy, Mclellan and Henley Lab fellow Sarah Lemay, worked together on the South Sudan World Food Program Cash Transfers research project over the summer, which stemmed from a
When Chapman University adjunct professor and psychologist Dr. Susan Larsen’s son Blakely graduated from the outstanding special needs program at Villa Park High School, she was at a loss as to what he was going to do with the remainder of his time. Blakely has autism and is intellectually disabled, yet has a disposition of
As promised, here is the first of many more blog posts from our first Scholar-in-Residence — Ms. Štěpánka Jislová, a comic book author/illustrator from Prague. Ms. Jislová will be joining us in October as part of the prestigious “Getting to Know Europe” grant that Wilkinson College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences was awarded from
Assistant Professor of Japanese Studies, Dr. Michael Wood, attended the Asian Studies on the Pacific Coast’s 50th Annual Conference hosted by California State Northridge June 9-12, 2016, where he was elected as a board member of the organization and presented on two different panels. During the conference he chaired a panel on the intersections of
At this time, as part of the prestigious “Getting to Know Europe” grant that Wilkinson College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences was awarded from the European Union, we are excited to announce that out first Scholar-in-Residence will be Ms. Štěpánka Jislová! Ms. Jislová, is a young comic book author/illustrator from Prague. She is
In May, Jacob Lampe (Sociology major, with an emphasis in Social Work, ’16) graduated from Chapman University and soon he will be attending USC’s School of Social Work, a program dedicated to improving the well-being of vulnerable individuals and communities, advance social and economic justice, and eradicate pressing societal problems in complex and culturally diverse
Author and Professor Alicia Kozameh has returned from New York City, where she participated in the Latin American Studies Association’s (LASA) International Congress, on its 50th anniversary . The annual conference brings together experts on Latin America from all disciplines and diverse occupational endeavors across the globe, and is organized by the largest professional Association