Every year, KPCC education reporters look for interesting stories among the graduating high school and college classes. This year, we’re enlisting the public’s help. Nominate an inspiring, funny or accomplished graduate for a profile and we might include him or her in our online and on-air coverage this graduation season. Before you start filling out
With 21 colleges and universities, 47 rookie and novice debate entries, and 210 novice individual events, Chapman Forensics competed at the “Cool Off” tournament this past weekend at Saddleback College!! They took 4 student competitors (Kevin Taucher, Jasmine Johnson, Shelby Stanton, and Carlos Marrow), 2 student judges (Tim Seavey and John Kelly), and 1 student
Assistant Professor of Art, Lia Halloran, has a solo exhibition, “Sublimation Transmutation”, that is opening on Saturday, May 5 from 6-8pm at Martha Otero Gallery in Los Angeles. Anyone and Everyone is welcome to go! For more information regarding the show please go to: http://www.marthaotero.com/exhibitions/2012-05-05_lia-halloran/
Senior BFA Graphic Design student, Devin Valdivia, designed the T-shirt for Chapman’s Henry Kemp-Blair Shakespeare Festival. The festival is hosted by Chapman’s Department of Theatre and the tournament consists of Scene, Monologue, Design Presentations, and Workshops devoted to Shakespeare’s texts.
Designer Career Paths is Wednesday, April 25, at 7pm in Argyros Forum, room 201. The event consists of four professional designers speaking about how they got where they are in their career and their design process and projects. The four designers will be Dani Bartov (Creative Director, Princess Cruises), Adrienne Grace (Freelance Designer), Amy Jo
The Panther student newspaper has just learned that it has received two prestigious awards in state and national competitions. In statewide competition, the California Newspaper Publishers Association (CNPA) named The Panther one of the state’s top two university newspapers in the “General Excellence” category that includes finalists at universities with much larger enrollments, including UCLA,
Professor Lia Halloran and BFA in Art student, Julie Russo, were awarded Chapman University’s Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) Program grant. Ms. Russo was one of the 13 “fellows” chosen to participate and will be working on a research project with Professor Halloran over the summer.
One of our own has been honored with a prestigious Fulbright award. Sabrina Davis, who is earning a BFA in Graphic Design with a Minor in Nutrition, was notified earlier this week that she will be the recipient of a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship to Spain. For 10 months she will be living in Spain and working
The Model United Nations delegation from Chapman University participated in the National Model UN conference in New York from April 1-5, 2012. This conference attracts 5000+ delegates from around the world to discuss pressing global issues. Chapman students were split up into different committees, representing the positions of South Africa on several topics including human trafficking,
This week was the opening for the Junior Portfolio Show. Twelve students set up a table with their professional portfolio book which included ten of their best design projects. Each student also put up a large poster created by themselves above their table. Their portolios are being reviewed by full and part time faculty. In