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From Our Eyes: Cheverton Award Winner Says Goodbye to Wilkinson Senior Alexander Ballard reflects before graduation

May 1, 2020 by Alex Ballard | Wilkinson College

From Our Eyes showcases Wilkinson students’ first-hand accounts of their undergraduate and graduate experiences. This issue features the reflections of Alexander Ballard, a graduating senior History, Political Science, and Economics triple-major, and the 2020 Recipient of the Cecil F. Cheverton Award, the highest undergraduate student honor at Chapman University. ••• I would say my story

Serving Justice New minor sets students on the path to law school

April 28, 2020 by Laura Silva | Wilkinson College

Law and Liberal Arts is a new minor coming to Wilkinson, beginning Fall 2020. The minor allows students at Chapman to dive deep into the study of law and its role in our society. It will also focus on building an academic foundation for those who plan to apply to law school. “The development of

Career Corner The COVID-19 Job Market and Advice for Graduating Seniors

April 28, 2020 by Erin Berthon, Philip Goodrich | News

Just four months ago, graduating seniors were preparing to embark on the final stretch of their time at Chapman. No one expected an invisible enemy to change their plans. On top of senior festivities and events being quickly reconfigured, soon-to-be Wilkinson graduates will now face another challenge: navigating a transformed job market. The COVID-19 pandemic

Leading the Conversation Virtual Film Series promotes thought-provoking discussions on race

April 24, 2020 by Laura Silva | Events

With everyone mostly confined to their homes for the foreseeable future, the challenge has been trying to carry on meaningful conversations through our screens. Luckily, Associate Dean Stephanie Takaragawa and Dean Jennifer Keene came up with a way to make the most of a trying situation. Wilkinson’s Engaging the World Series: Leading the Conversation on

The Venezuelan Humanitarian Crisis in Virtual Reality Graduate Student Juan Bustillo Interns with Plan País

April 23, 2020 by David Krausman | Wilkinson College

During the summer of 2019, International Studies graduate student Juan Bustillo spent a month in Washington, DC, interning with the Venezuelan NGO, Plan País. Bustillo worked on a virtual reality (VR) 360° documentary short called Walking for Freedom: A Venezuelan Story in partnership with the Global Shapers and Mycrom Films. The project, which was showcased

Museum Sleuths Hunting History in the U.K.

April 17, 2020 by Laura Silva | Art

What does it mean to be a museum detective? Dr. Jamie Larkin (Creative & Cultural Industries) and a multidisciplinary team of researchers out of Birkbeck, University of London, have spent over four years uncovering and charting the museum landscape in the United Kingdom. Comprising about 3,200 museums, the U.K. museum sector is especially unique in

The Twists and Turns of Evangelical Politics A Q&A with Dr. John Compton

April 10, 2020 by Laura Silva | Wilkinson College

Dr. John Compton’s (Political Science) new book, The End of Empathy: Why White Protestants Stopped Loving Their Neighbors, explores a timely issue: the connection between religion and politics. Through a mix of archival research and public opinion data, The End of Empathy traces the changing social values of white Protestants over the past century. Compton

Wilkinson Graduate Students Shine in the Southwest

April 1, 2020 by David Krausman | Wilkinson College

This March, Wilkinson College graduate students student ventured into the southwest for two major conferences: The Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP) in San Antonio, Texas, and the Council of Graduate School’s (CGS) annual meeting in Albuquerque, New Mexico. In San Antonio, over a dozen of our MFA in Creative Writing students represented Chapman at AWP,

Building a Future in Arts & Humanities Graphic Design program partners with the Samueli Academy.

March 31, 2020 by Laura Silva | Art

The Graphic Design program, housed within Wilkinson College, has formed a partnership with the Orangewood-based high school Samueli Academy to improve the college and career readiness of students in the academy’s Design Pathway program. Samueli Academy, which opened in 2013 to provide a better education for disadvantaged students, takes a work-based learning approach featuring a

Research: The Remedy for Today’s Ills A unique Chapman interdisciplinary, international study provides significant insight into the Coronavirus-19 pandemic.

March 30, 2020 by Laura Silva | News

As scientists and researchers around the world seek to understand the growing Coronavirus health crisis, a Wilkinson professor and Economic Science Institute presidential fellow, are reexamining a typically misunderstood aspect of the disease. So far, their research has shown that despite what young people may think, age is not a direct factor in COVID-19 mortality.