Timeline Stories Archive | Chapman Newsroom

2022: Opening of Sandi Simon Dance Center

August 25, 2021

2021: Opening of Swenson Family Hall of Engineering

August 25, 2021

2021: Dodge College of Film and Media Arts Is Named Fourth Best Film School in the Nation

August 25, 2021

2021: Chapman Celebrates 160th Anniversary

August 25, 2021

2020: University Rises Above Challenges of Global Pandemic

August 25, 2021

1961: The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. speaks in Memorial Hall

February 3, 2021

2019: Elevated to R2 status for “high research activity”

January 1, 2019

2016: Opening of Musco Center for the Arts hailed as “an ideal opera house”

January 1, 2016

2013: Rinker Health Science campus opens in Irvine

January 1, 2013

2010: Physics professor Yakir Aharonov awarded the National Medal of Science

January 1, 2010

1991: Chapman College formally becomes Chapman University

January 1, 2001

1954: Chapman relocates to Orange County

January 1, 1998

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