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Culture, Campus and Community Musco Center Celebrates its Third Anniversary

By Mary Platt and Wesley Pinkham Musco Center emerged in March 2016 as an iconic and beautiful home for the arts for Chapman University and Orange County. The elegant, new performing arts center had seemingly sprung...

March 29, 2019

Meeting and Learning From Holocaust Survivors Nearly 1,000 middle and high school students gather at Chapman University's annual Holocaust Art & Writing Contest for lessons more timely than ever.

By his own account, middle school student Ezekiel Torres is not the kind of guy who’s ever at a loss for words.  But then he toured Chapman University’s Holocaust library and later stood spellbound while an 89-year-old...

March 11, 2019
Dawn Bonker Dawn Bonker

Women’s Week Panelists Offer Leadership and Career Advice for the Next Generation

What do a professor, a technology-whiz and a communications guru have in common? They are all women leaders and they all work at Chapman. To kick off International Women’s Week this past Monday, the Chapman community...

March 8, 2019
Stephanie House
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Chapman’s Director of Jewish Life Seeks to Guide Others to ‘Moments of Shabbat’

Rabbi Corie Yutkin, Chapman University’s director of Jewish life and a chaplain at Fish Interfaith Center, knows that a journey of faith can take many turns. “I came from a Conservative Jewish upbringing with Orthodox...

March 5, 2019
Robyn Norwood

Women’s Week Opens with a Math Problem — How to Get More Women Mathematicians

History proves that women can master mathematics. Hypatia of Alexandria was so renowned a mathematician in ancient Greece that Raphael included her in his famous classical work, “The School of Athens.”...

March 4, 2019

New Director of Muslim Life Ready to Teach, Counsel and Tackle Misconceptions

Shaykh Jibreel Speight is the first Director of Muslim Life and a new chaplain at Chapman University’s Fish Interfaith Center. So his calendar is filling quickly as he plans programs and events to serve Muslim and non...

January 30, 2019
Dawn Bonker Dawn Bonker
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New Magazine Celebrates University Research, Discovery and Creativity

December 18, 2018
Dawn Bonker Dawn Bonker
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A Season of Awards for the Hilbert Museum Chapman's art museum is honored by City of Orange.

This fall has turned out to be quite a season of awards and public recognition for Chapman University’s Hilbert Museum.  It all began with founders Mark and Janet Hilbert being honored with the Helena Modjeska...

November 28, 2018
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How You Can Help Victims of California Fires For now, out-of-area people should stay put and offer financial donations if they're able, say faculty who study disaster recovery.

Faculty who study the best practices of disaster relief and assistance offer insights into the best ways to help fire victims.

November 12, 2018
Dawn Bonker Dawn Bonker
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‘The Future is in Your Hands,’ Civil Rights Activist Dolores Huerta Tells Students at Chapman University

When Dolores Huerta comes into town to speak, don’t plan on getting too comfortable in your seat. Because the 88-year-old labor leader and civil rights activist who co-founded the United Farm Workers Association with...

October 23, 2018
Dawn Bonker Dawn Bonker