Chapman University Schmid College of Science and Technology

It's our Chapman University Schmid College of Science and Technology July research highlights! We've got grants, awards, editorships, conference presentations, and research papers galore! Sophia Wallace and Elena Skender represented their classmates in presenting research from Irvine Ranch Conservancy at the annual meeting of the Ecological Society of America. Professor Patricia C. Lopes also chaired a session. Grand Challenges Initiative postdoctoral fellow Dr. Gabriela Shirkey and environmental science and policy Professor Joshua Fisher both won new NASA grants. Jeremy Hsu begins as an editor for the Journal of Microbiology and Biology Education. Andrew Jordan was awarded the medal of honor at the “Frontiers of Quantum and Mesoscopic Thermodynamics” conference. And much more...

Thanks to the generosity of Alex Wendling '13 (MS '15), the new Custom Flavors Scholars in Food Science fellowship will provide support to up to three currently enrolled students in our food science program. Read more about Alex's journey from Chapman to the helm of Custom Flavors in the Chapman Newsroom.

Not everyone is at the beach! The scientists of Chapman University Schmid College of Science and Technology are hard at work, hunched over their instruments and computers. We've got food safety for vulnerable populations from the Chapman Sensory Lab, hagfish doing weird things from Douglas Fudge, mathematical models of the heart (well, sort of) from Lindsay Waldrop, and more on SARS-CoV-2 spike proteins from Gennady Verkhivker. All that and more:

From the classroom to the community: Chapman University Schmid College of Science and Technology students lead a sustainability plan to cut emissions and promote renewable energy in the City of Orange. 🍊♻️

What's actually in your supplements? 💊 #ChapmanU researchers weigh in on the questionable practices of some supplement companies that could put consumers at risk.

Next month, Schmid College professor and co-director of the Institute for Quantum Studies Yakir Aharonov will be admitted into The Royal Society, joining the likes of Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein, and Stephen Hawking. A leading contemporary quantum physicist, Aharonov is known for his contributions to the discovery of the Aharonov-Bohm Effect, a phenomenon in which an electrically charged particle is affected by an electromagnetic potential.

Please join us in congratulating our Schmid College faculty who were recognized with university awards this Spring! Award in Mentorship of Undergraduate Research & Creative Activity: Rosalee Hellberg and Richelle Tanner Wang-Fradkin Junior Professorship: Patricia C. Lopes Pedagogical Innovation Award: Brennan McDavid and Khriss Toto - Pacioles

Our monthly Chapman University Schmid College of Science and Technology research highlights, with Anuradha Prakash, Ph.D., GCI Fellow Daniel Gardner, LouAnne B., alumna Jenny Gritton, Joshua Fisher, Hesham El-Askary, Ehsan Yaghmaei, PhD, and Cyril Rakovski. We've got everything from more effective treatment recommendations for Alzheimer's Disease to better bicycling in Orange County. Check it out:

This month's research highlights really speaks to the breadth and depth of impact that Chapman University Schmid College of Science and Technology has on the community at large. Faculty like Walter Piper are helping communities in Minnesota and Wisconsin understand how environmental change is affecting the iconic birds in their backyards, while Sandy Oliver Lopez Najera, PhD is contributing closer to home to help keep participants in biomedical research studies safe here in Southern California. Our food scientists, including John Miklavcic, Uyen Phan, and Lilian Senger are doing important work making sure that our food is safe and nutritious. And that's just a sample...click the link to read more:

Congratulations to one of my stellar students Rejoice Thomas on defending his dissertation titled “Global to Glocal: A Confluence of Data Science and Earth Observations in the Advancement of the SDGs” in partial fulfillment of his Phd degree in the Computational and Data Sciences Program, Chapman University Schmid College of Science and Technology. I’m really excited to see the next chapter of your research and contributions to the scientific community. Special thanks to the committee Wenzhao Li , Joshua Fisher, Erik Linstead and Daniele Struppa for all their support to this scientific endeavor.