While most followers of NASA’s space shuttle program watched the final shuttle launch on televisions and computer screens this morning, two Chapman University scholars enjoyed on-the-spot viewing as media members covering the end of the historic program. Chapman bloggers Drs. Leahy and Dechow chronicle historic launch of Atlantis. Anna Leahy Ph.D., associate professor of English
Congratulations are in order for Collin Pointon (double major in English literature and Philosophy). He has been accepted into the MA in Philosophy program at Marquette University and will be starting in the fall.
Breakdown is an exhibition of sculpture by artists working in a variety of traditional & non traditional materials including balloon, synthetic hair & tomatoes. Some of the work suggests the literal disintegration of the object while other pieces challenge the conventions of sculpture. Opening Reception: February 8th, 5:30pm-8pm. For more information, call 714.997.6729. Art Department
Chapman University, Wilkinson College Political Science alum Nadar Baroukh (’04,’05) was elected mayor of Falls Church, VA. (see story here) in July 2010. As part of his new job responsibilities, Mayor Baroukh was invited to President Barack Obama’s backyard discussion on the Patient’s Bill of Rights on September 22, 2010. During his talk, President Obama observed that he and Mayor
Wilkinson College Dean’s Office is collecting (approximately) $10 (unwrapped) toys for Project Access. Toys will be picked up on Friday, Dec. 17 and can be left in Roosevelt 123. Need some ideas? How about … Legos, dolls, Hello Kitty, Transformers, board games, Hot Wheels, Barbies, Bratz dolls, Toy Story toys, puzzles, movies, toys from the movie the Disney movie
Chapman University’s Dodge College of Film and Media Arts, Wilkinson College of Humanities and Social Sciences, and the International Documentary Program present Destination: Africa, a screening of five student-produced short documentary films, on Thursday, Dec. 2, at 7 p.m. Read more in Happenings!
Dr. Veronique Olivier, Assistant Professor of French, recently published an article for The French Review (Dec. 2010, Volume 84.2) titled, “Teaching French via Text Messages: Using the Phone in the Classroom … for Once!” This January, Dr. Veronique Olivier will be taking ten of her advanced students to Paris for a January Interterm course. Students will be posting
A documentary telling the extraordinary story of Israel’s first astronaut and a tiny Nazi-era Torah he carried to the heights of space on the ill-fated 2003 Columbia space shuttle will be screened at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 5, in Memorial Hall (download flyer). NASA Astronaut Michael Massimino Following the screening of “An Article of Hope”
Five undergraduate students from Professor Claudine Jaenichen’s Information Design course will be published in a special issue of the Information Design Journal covering topics in Healthcare. IDJ is a peer-reviewed international journal and an authoritative publication in the discipline of information design. Keely Misenhimer, Brooke Brisbois, Laura Croswaite, Kailah Ogawa, and Chase Conching completed a