Christine Curry ’95, sociology, might not get your goat in particular, but she has overseen more than 50 goats, at various points in the life of the Grenada Goat Dairy, which is a sustainable, community-building and educational dairy farm at the Belmont Estate in St. Patrick, Grenada. The 2017 Schweitzer Award winner talks about her
“There is no separating my life from my work,” says Sarah Nininger ’13, B.A. Integrated Educational Studies. Her friends back in the U.S. are getting married, having families, buying homes. She’s trying to figure out how incorporate a plot of land that came with her building in Uganda into a community gardening project. Sarah Nininger
That smiling face on the Angel Stadium scoreboard Sept. 20 was Chapman University’s Victoria Carty, Ph.D., an associate professor of sociology in the Wilkinson College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences. Carty was honored before the game as a Wells Fargo Home Run Hero for her work with Higher Ground, an Anaheim nonprofit that provides
In September 2016, Chapman University, Wilkinson College alumna, Danielle M. Walters (’10, MFA Creative Writing and MA English) had her first book published, Cut The Thread. About the book: When a man falls from a balcony during a concert of Stravinsky’s Petrushka, a mystery begins to unfold in the local newspaper. In a dreamlike, whimsical vision
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