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November 2009

16 November, 2009

Science Research Expo
     Get the skinny on science research in 5 minutes! OK -- it's a little more than 5 minutes.
     Find out what Schmid College faculty members are working on at the annual Science
     Research Expo on Nov. 16 at 4 p.m. Science faculty give brief (5 minutes, 5 slides)
     presentations providing an overview of their scholarly research to the scientific student
     community as well as staff, faculty and the public. Some of the topics on the agenda:
     Arsenic contamination and distribution in gold mines, controls on greenhouse gas
     production in wetland ecosystems, and gestational influences and preterm birth on motor
     development. In the Bush Conference Center, Beckman Hall 404.

13 November, 2009

Congratulations Lindsey Hughes!

     Congratulations to Lindsey Hughes, whose paper "Software Analysis with Unsupervised
     Topic Models" was accepted to the Workshop on Applications of Topic Models: Text and
     Beyond at the 2009 Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) in
     Whistler, B.C. this December.

October 2009

30 October, 2009	Press Clip: Boo! Why we like getting spooked Why do so many people enjoy a good scare? Gary Robbins, science writer-editor of The Orange County Register, puts the question to David Pincus, assistant professor of psychology.
29 October, 2009	Press Clip: Chapman needs volunteers for bone study Chapman University researchers are looking for volunteers to participate in a study of osteoporosis, a form of bone loss that makes bones more prone to fracture and which can cause considerable pain.
29 October, 2009	Hispanic Fund Dinner Honors Educators Luis Ortiz-Franco, Ph.D., professor of computer science and applied mathematics, was honored with an Apple of Gold award last week by the Orange County Hispanic Education Endowment Fund for excellence in university instruction.
16 October, 2009	26th Annual World Food Day Teleconference The 2009 World Food Day Teleconference on Friday (Oct. 16) will consider the impact of the financial crisis on those living in poverty, the responsibilities of the rest of the world and the solutions that are emerging.
12 October, 2009	Shake, rattle, roll: Learn about the San Andreas fault
5 October, 2009	Press Clip: Chapman physicist puts his odds of winning Nobel at 40% by Gary Robbins, The Orange County Register

September 2009

24 September, 2009	Press Clip: Chapman physicist forecast to win Nobel Prize
15 September, 2009	Press Clip: Rising star at Chapman gets $410,000 to study pollution A Chapman University chemist who studies pollution at Southern California mines has been given $410,000 to expand his research.
21 September, 2009	Physicist receives new Farley Professorship Yakir Aharonov, Ph.D., the Wolf Prize-winning physicist, received a new title last week: James J. Farley Professor of Natural Philosophy. The James J. Farley Professorship in Natural Philosophy pays tribute to a longtime member of the Chapman family who served the campus as vice president of development until becoming the executive director of the Waltmar Foundation.
7 September, 2009	Dr. Chris Kim receives $409,500 NSF Career Grant- Chapman’s 1st Christopher Kim, Ph.D., assistant professor of chemistry, has received the National Science Foundation’s most prestigious award for early-career, tenure-track teachers and scholars.
7 September, 2009	Remembering Dr. Fred Kakis - Holocaust survivor, chemist Fred Kakis, Ph.D., professor emeritus of chemistry, passed away Sept. 1 at his home in Palm Springs. A Holocaust survivor, he left Greece when he was still a young boy when, despite his age, he was actively engaged in underground activities against the Nazis. Dr. Kakis enjoyed a distinguished career as a scholar and a teacher. His career at Chapman, from 1964 to 1989, spanned years of major growth and change.
7 September, 2009	Congrats Amy Buchmann! Congrats to Chapman student Amy Buchmann, who won honorable mention in the History of Mathematics Special Interest Group of the MAA’s annual writing contest for undergraduates for her work on quaternions. Her adviser was Chancellor Daniele Struppa. Amy took an independent study with Chancellor Struppa last spring to write the paper and learn more about this branch of mathematics. She said they met every other week to discuss the paper. To read, “A Brief History of Quaternions and the Theory of Holomorphic Functions of Quaternionic Variables,” CLICK HERE
7 September, 2009	CEO Summit Welcomes Medical Device Magnates Innovative medical devices to assist doctors and surgeons have revolutionized patient care – and the center of the universe for the invention, design and manufacture of such devices has to be Orange County. Here in the O.C., medical devices account for more than 11% of the total manufacturing economy.