Wilkinson’s very own Megan McKeown (a Peace Studies major and Women Studies minor) has been awarded a U.S. Department of State Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) to study critical needs languages this summer. McKeown is one out of 550 U.S. undergraduate and graduate students who received a scholarship from the CLS Program. She will spend
Chapman University/ Wilkinson College senior, Marvin Garbeh Davis Jr. (’14), recently published a book about his life torn apart by war titled, From Refugee to Prodigy: A Story of Loss, Love and New Life . It is a story of his journey from childhood spent in a refugee camp to becoming an educated member
The John and Margaret Class Student Book Collection Contest was established to inspire students to create their own personal libraries and book collections and to take joy in the printed book. The purpose of the contest is to highlight a focused collection owned by a student. The contest is open to all currently enrolled full-time
Junior Marissa Wong, (Peace Studies Major, IES and Honors Minor) and Senior Kathleen Doll (Political Science and Psychology Major; Women’s Studies Minor) presented their project, “Intergenerational Memory Transmission in Cambodia: Interrupting Patterns of Violence” at the University of Notre Dame Student Peace Conference at the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, March 28-29. The Kroc
Wilkinson College is proud to announce that Dylan Trumbull (BFA Studio Art ’14) and Casey Wyman, BFA Graphic Design (’14) have been accepted into the paid internship program at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice, Italy. About the Program: The museum offers an internship program for Italian and international students who study art,
The Marshutz Endowed Journalism fund, Wilkinson College of Humanities and Social Sciences, awards a scholarship each academic year to a matriculated student majoring in English with a journalism emphasis or a journalism minor who displays a growing talent and the potential to succeed in the course of study while also demonstrating a need for additional
A story by Marilyn Love (Religious Studies Major and World Languages and Cultures Minor ’14) Last summer, I spent four weeks excavating at Tel Jezreel, where I had the privilege of working with an international team of people, and staying at Kibbutz Yizre’el, which is one of the few active kibbutzim remaining in Israel. The
During the January Interterm, Sukhee Kang, former mayor of Irvine and Dr. Fred Smoller took 13 Chapman students to Korea to explore the county’s history, politics, and economy. During this trip the students visited the national assembly, Sejong dae-ro (King Sejong’s statue), the Korea Broadcasting System, Seocho City Hall, Kyonggi provincial hall, Samsung, Hyundai, Korea
Recently, Chapman alumna, Nou Vang (Integrated Educational Studies Major and Women Studies and Psychology Minor ‘(13)) attended the mid-year conference for all the Fulbright ETAs and Scholars. Vang is currently the Fulbright Taiwan English Teaching Assistant and at the conference she won an award for 2013-2014 Outstanding Fulbright ETA Performance Award. “I was not expecting
Over the 2014 January Interterm, Associate Professor Pilar Valenzuela (Department of World Languages & Cultures) led a group of Chapman students as part of a research initiative. The group of four (Stephanie Estrada, Spanish Major (’15), Rebeca Herrera, Political Science, Peace Studies, Women’s Studies (’14), Valeria Sosa, Political Science Major, Spanish Minor (’14) and Emily