Chapman University’s Speech and Debate Team won the most individual awards of any four-year university competing at the 2012 California Double-Up Tournament, held this month at Azusa Pacific University. Contributing to the team’s overall ranking were outstanding individual achievements in several categories. In the category of After Dinner Speaking, which challenges students to write and
On Friday, October 19, 2012, English Professor (and Director of Undergraduate Writing) Doug Sweet, presented his paper, ” Released from the Ghosts of Platonic Idealism ” at the the Watson Conference, “Economies of Writing,” at U. of Louisville.
Political Science Professor Lori Cox Han , an expert on American government, was interviewed last week by Lake Forest Patch about former US President Bill Clinton’s visit to UCI on Tuesday, October 22. Clinton was their to endorse five congressional candidates and encourage voters to turn out on Nov. 6. Click here to read the
English Professor Alicia Kozameh will be addressing students, faculty and the Georgetown University community within the framework of Professor Adam Lifshey’s class, “Human Rights in Latin America”. She will read from her novel Steps Under Water and speak about the relationship between her experiences as a political prisoner and the creative writing process of this
Art Professor David Lee currently has his art work up in Brett Rubbico Gallery in Newport Beach, a gallery recognized as the authoritative and educational gallery for contemporary art in Orange County with an emphasis on related diversity of work styles including reductive, minimal, abstract, geometric, figurative, and landscape with strict adherence to a rigorous
Doug Sweet, Direct or of Undergraduate Writing, has just published a chapter in WPA Outcomes Statement–A Decade Later. This text features a number of nationally-known scholars discussing how the WPA Outcomes Statement has affected the teaching of writing and writing program administration. A Description of the Collection: “The WPA Outcomes Statement—A Decade Later addresses
In August, ceramics professor, David Kiddie , had one of his teapots “Red Rocket” published in The Best of 500 Ceramics: Celebrating a Decade in Clay , Sterling publishing Co, New York, NY, as part of an international juried book competition. The book is comprised of the best 500 works from 5000 eligible pieces that
English Professor Alicia Kozameh will participate in this year’s Las Americas Letters Series in Literature and the Arts, a yearly event sponsored by St. Mary’s University, San Antonio, Texas, Oct. 11-13, 2012. Professor Gwendolyn Díaz, creator and director of the Series, describes it this way: “Las Americas Letters is a celebration of the literature and
Wilkinson College of Humanities and Social Sciences and Asian Studies Minor along with the Dr. Richard Watson Distinguished Speaker Series presents, Confucian Role Ethics , with guest lecturer Roger Ames, Ph.D. on Wednesday, October 10 in the Bush Conference Center of Beckman Hall, room 404. The reception will begin at 4:30 p.m., followed by a
For the thir d time the history e-journal, Voces Novae , has won the national prize for Best Electronic Journal by the Phi Alpha Theta History Honors Society . Voces Nova e was founded in the Spring of 2009 by the Alpha Mu Gamma Chapter of Phi Alpha Theta at Chapman University. The mission