Research News Roundup - February 2025

This month’s newsletter highlights include announcements about: internal grants, international travel, faculty success programs, and upcoming funding opportunities, faculty highlight stories, upcoming workshops and much more exciting news!

Have questions, need help? Join the monthly office hours – see below for time and Zoom links.

2025-2026 Faculty Grant for Research, Scholarship, & Creative Activity Now Open!

Our office is now accepting proposals for the 2025-2026 Faculty Grant for Research, Scholarship, & Creative Activity (FGRSC). This internal grant provides competitive, merit-based support for research, scholarly, and creative activities in all disciplines and fields. The call for proposals, guidelines, and supporting documents can be found on our resource page.

The deadline for proposals has been extended! Proposals are due Monday, February 24th, 2025 at 12pm (Noon).

International Travel – Register your Travel

If you are planning international travel related to your research, scholarship and creative activities, then you must register your travel in Chapman’s Travel Registry using your Chapman user login. Registering your travel will help us to provide you with resources (e.g., your country of citizenship consular services or embassies), useful information (e.g., what to do when you get sick while in a foreign country), and assess any potential risk and how to mitigate them (e.g., travel advisory from the U.S. State Department). Contact Chapman’s Risk Management at risk@chapman.edu if you have any questions.

NCFDD Faculty Success Program

Join NCFDD for a 14-Day Writing Challenge starting February 24! This is an excellent opportunity to experiment with daily writing, online community, and supportive accountability. It’s very simple: You commit to write every day for at least 30 minutes, login your community, set the timer, write, post your progress daily, and communicate it with your group.

CHOC Call for Abstracts: Research Institute Pediatric & Lifespan Data Science Conference

Don't miss this opportunity to submit an abstract and share your work on the application of statistical, machine learning, and artificial intelligence algorithms in healthcare, public health, and related fields. Special consideration will be given to submissions at the intersection of precision medicine, data science, and artificial intelligence for the management of complex medical patients.

The deadline to submit is Monday, February 17, 2025.

Upcoming Funding Opportunities

NSF 25-530: Collaborations in Artificial Intelligence and Geosciences (CAIG), due April 2, 2025. This opportunity expects to fund interdisciplinary teams of 2-3 lead collaborating Senior/Key Personnel and associated students, postdoctoral researchers, research software engineers, and/or similar staff to advance the development and adoption of innovative artificial intelligence (AI) methods to increase scientific understanding of the Earth system. The program supports projects that advance AI techniques and/or innovative uses of sophisticated or novel AI methods to enable significant breakthroughs in addressing geoscience research question(s) by building partnerships between experts in AI and Geosciences. Proposers are strongly encouraged to contact the program officer to ascertain the appropriate focus and scope intended is applicable for this opportunity.

American Heart Association Novel Artificial Intelligence Approaches to Advance Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular/Brain Health. Preproposal due February 27, 2025, 3 PM Central Time. Full Proposal (invited) due May 1, 2025, 3 PM CT. This is an opportunity for research teams of at least three investigators to propose unique research to advance the use of AI in health and health care delivery.

Save the Date: 2025 Three Minute Thesis Competition

Please save the date, Friday, April 11 for the 2025 Three Minute Thesis (3MT) Competition and Research Poster Session. Graduate students are encouraged to participate in the competition which is a wonderful opportunity for student to practice their presentation skills while sharing their work with their peers and faculty. More information about the competition will be announced in upcoming issues of our Research News Roundup.

Graduate Student Tuition Support Policy

Ph.D. and D.Sc. students employed by the University as Graduate Assistants are eligible for the tuition support according to the Graduate Student Tuition Support policy. Particularly, the policy requires to include tuition support in all applications for extramural grant that includes Ph.D. students as key personnel (up to the limit allowed by the sponsor).

Please contact GradEd@chapman.edu if you have any questions regarding the tuition support policy.

Faculty Highlight! Faculty Story

Attallah College Assistant Professor Stephany Cuevas is researching how to support the families of first-generation college students. Cuevas’ work is making a significant impact by highlighting the intricate role families play in their children’s education and exploring how universities and actively engage and support his vital role.

Kudos to Chapman Faculty Award Recipients

Please join us in congratulating the following faculty who have received a new award in 2025. Keep up the amazing work!

Amy Kang for "Advancing antimicrobial stewardship: development of the stewardship personnel required for antimicrobial stewardship programs resource calculator (SPARC)" from Society of Infections Diseases Pharmacists for $90,000
Uri Maoz for "Workshop on Intentions in Humans and Machine-Learning Models" from Association for Psychological Science for $20,000
Walter Piper for "Investigating Breeding Decline in Common Loons and Loss of Water Clarity in Lakes of Northern Wisconsin" from Walter Alexander Foundation for $ 20,000
Josh Fisher for "High-Resolution Real-Time Wildfire Detection, Mapping, and Communication Relay System with Persistent Broad-Area Coverage" from Urban Sky (NASA) for $501,006
Rev. Nancy E. Brink for "Bridging the Gap Skills and Curriculum to Campus" from Interfaith America for$10,000

Nature Masterclass On-Demand: Chapman University Only!

Register for the upcoming Chapman only training session hosted by Nature Masterclass editors and experts! This event will be hosted via Zoom on Friday, February 21st from 1:00pm - 2:00pm. This one hour presentation will cover an overview of nature masterclasses, course offerings, account creation and navigation, completing lessons and tracking progress, Q&A, and more! RSVP for the Zoom information!

Research Collaboration Opportunities Webinar

Please join Lawrence Lau, Director of Industry Alliances & Commercialization, for a webinar on how to effectively engage with industry for soliciting research collaborations. You will learn techniques shared from innovation professionals at companies whose mainly function is to seek impactful industry-sponsored research projects at universities and relevant university inventions for licensing. This webinar is suitable for faculty members, researchers, and graduate students who are participating in research and who are interested in collaborating with companies.

This webinar will be delivered via Zoom on Wednesday, 2/26/2025 at Noon.

On Campus Office Hours and Shared Table with VPR Martina Nieswandt

Have you always wondered what the Office of Research & Graduate Education (OOR&GE) does? Are you questioning how best to get your research, scholarship, and creative activities to the next level and wonder how the OOR&GE can help in addition to the support you get in your college/school? Come join Martina during her spring semester Orange campus office hours or at the Rinker campus shared table event!

March 6th Office Hours @ Orange Campus in LL 420 from 11:30am - 1:00pm
April 30th Shared Table Lunch @ Rinker Campus from 11:30am - 1:30pm
May 4th Office Hours @ Orange Campus in LL 420 from 11:30am - 1:00pm

Launch of the Fulbright U.S. Scholar Competition 2026-2027

Join us for an information session about the Fulbright U.S. Scholar opportunities, learn from one of your colleagues about their Fulbright scholarship, and get answers to your questions.

This info session will be held of Thursday March 6th from 3:00 - 4:30pm. RSVP for access to the Zoom link.

How to Prepare Your Distractible Brain to Ease Into The Hard Work of Drafting a Manuscript

A repeatable pattern of actions can shift you from the chaotic world of email, social media, collegial or family interruptions, personal worries, and other pressing work into a mindset in which you can concentrate and write. Of course, there are no writing rituals that are common to all successful authors. The particulars will vary from writer to writer. The point is: Don’t underestimate how the right mix of routines and artifacts can support or renew your writing focus when it has been dispersed to the many winds of academic and personal life. Continue reading: "The Power of Writing Rituals,” by James M. Lang

Whose Data Is It? Celebrate Love Data Week with the Leatherby Libraries

Only for data lovers? No, also for you, and you, and you,…!Participate in the Library Research and Data Services (LRDS) team’s Love Data Week 2025. Learn about data resources and services across campus and engage in presentations on student success data, faculty research/data services, and data needed for daily operations at the Love Data Week Open House hosted by the Leatherby Libraries in collaboration with the Office of the Provost, Information Systems and Technology (IS&T) Department, Institutional Research and Decision Support (IRADS) Office, and the Office of Research & Graduate Education.

Fashion Lovers and Researchers Rejoice! Leatherby Libraries Now Has the Entire Vogue Archive

The Chapman research community now has access to the Vogue Archive, a database including the entire run of the US edition of Vogue from 1892 to present-day, reproduced in high-resolution color images. Researchers will find the database useful when examining gender, marketing, and cultural studies, including body image, gender roles, and social taste.

Connect to Knowledge: Cabells Journalytics Medicine & Predatory Reports

The Leatherby Libraries is pleased to offer access to Cabells Journalytics Medicine & Predatory Reports, which focuses on journals in the medical field that adhere to publication guidelines. This resource aims to highlight and prevent deceptive practices that undermine quality research in the medical field.

We are here for you! Join us in our office hours to get answers to your questions; discuss trends and news from funding agencies and federal guidelines; get tips about proposal development for grants, IRB and IACUC protocols; or to find out what’s all the talk about inventions, patents, and industry partnerships.

SPS Pre Award & Non-Financial Post Award: The first Thursday of every month from 11:00-12:00pm. Zoom Link.

sday of every month from 9:30-10:30am. Zoom Link

IRB: The first Tuesday of every month from 9:00-10:00am. Zoom Link.

IACUC/COI/Export/Import: The fourth Tuesday of every month from 9:00-10:00pm. Zoom Link.

Industry Alliance and Commercialization: The third Thursday of every month from 3:00-4:00pm. Zoom Link.

Graduate Education: The last Thursday of every month from 10:00-11:00am. Zoom Link.

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