The Laura Scudder Women’s Studies Scholarship is now open! In honor of the inspirational memory and trailblazing contributions of Laura Scudder, the Laura Scudder Scholarship will be awarded to a student demonstrating an interest and commitment to women’s issues, scholarship, and leadership. $5,000 Scholarship for 2017-2018 Application and documents must be submitted by May 1,
This exhibition showcases work from upper division graphic design students from Rachelle W. Chuang’s Book Design class at Chapman University. During Fall 2015 and 2016, students participated in a rigorous process to research, redesign and physically produce two conceptually different book jackets for a single work. One of the book jacket covers was selected as
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
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
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
In 2015, a team comprised of four Southern California schools won second place in the Engineering portion of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Solar Decathlon competition. The team, Team Orange County, was quoted as the most innovative collegiate group the competition had ever seen, missing the first place award by just one point. Team Orange
Schweitzer Award of Excellence has been given since 1982 by C hapman University ’s Albert Schweitzer Institute to an individual and/or organization that exemplifies Schweitzer’s ethics of reverence for life and his dedication to a life of service. The 2016 Schweitzer Award of Excellence Winner is June Scobee Rodgers, Class of 1978
Schweitzer Rising Star Award was initiated in 2014 and is given annually by Chapman University ’s Albert Schweitzer Institute to an inspirational young Alumna/Alumnus who has taken up Schweitzer’s challenge to find a place to invest his or her humanity for the betterment of humankind and the world. 2016 Schweitzer Rising Star Award Winner