This document summarizes development funding for Schmid College at Chapman University in FY 2015-2016, including several endowed scholarships, research grants, and donations for facilities. Notable donations include $1.6 million for STEM fellowships, $300,000 for a computational and data science scholarship program, $195,544 for NSF-funded peatland methane research, and $270,000 for a NSF grant studying nanoparticle growth. Several labs, offices, and other campus facilities also received naming gifts.

1. Schmid College Development FY
15-16 funding updates
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2. Chapman received a $1.6 million gift from to establish The
Elizabeth and Phill Gross Endowed Fellowship of the Simon-
STEM Scholar
Simon Scholars working in Chris
Kim’s KEG Lab 2016

3. Schmid has raised $18,945 to help establish the
Leonardo Eifert Scholarship for Imaginative
Applications of Mathematics

4. $4,750 raised in support of the Virginia Carson,
Ph.D. Endowed Student award

5. $61,179 raised in support of the Schmid Fund
for Academic Excellence

6. $9,525 raised in support of the Food Science
Phytosanitary Irradiation Forum sponsorship

7. Experian Consumer donated $300,000 to create the
Scholars Program in Computational and Data Science
– Scholarship support to graduate students in our
Computation and Data Science program
– Provides support for our Machine Learning and
Assistive Technology Lab led by Dr. Erik Linstead

8. Microsemi Integrated
Circuit Laboratory
&
Microsemi Software
Engineering
Laboratory
1st floor

9. 3RD Floor Events
Gallery

10. James Burra
Field Terrace
3rd Floor

11. Phillip H. Case
Dean’s Suite
1st Floor

12. $500K Center for Science
and Technology
no naming associated
with gift

13. Sarah Ann and Dale E.
Fowler '58
Biology Laboratory
1st Floor

14. Ambassador and Mrs.
Ronald P. Spogli
Biology Laboratory
1st Floor

15. Doy Henley
1st Floor Life Sciences
Library

16. Center for Science and Technology Offices:
- The Nancy and Irving Chase Laboratory Technician Office, 2nd Floor, $125,000
- The Michèle and Dr. Quade Stahl '61 Faculty Office in Honor of Drs. Raylene and
Peter Coad, 2nd Floor
- The James P. O’Neil ’69 Faculty Office, 2nd Floor
- J. Grace Foundation Faculty Office, TBD
- Kathleen and David Trott Faculty Office, 3rd Floor
- Hutton Parker Foundation Faculty Office In Honor of James L. Doti President of
Chapman University 1991-2016, 3rd Floor

17. Joel and Ann
Moskowitz Conference
Room
1st Floor

18. Ranney Food Science
Laboratory
1st Floor

19. Donald and Felicity
Sodaro Arch

20. Under the direction of Cassandra
Medvedeff, Jason Keller and Warren de
Bruyn, Chapman has been awarded a NSF
grant of $195,544 to explore the
possibility that methylotrophic substrates
serve as an important source of CH4 in
northern peatland ecosystems.

21. Atmospheric Data Solutions, Inc.
pledged $100,000 to establish the
Atmospheric Data Solutions
Assistantship in Computation and Data
Science which supports students
enrolled in the Computational and Data
Science (CADS) who are working as a part
of Prof. Hesham El-Askary's global and
environmental change research team.

22. Christopher Kim has been awarded a 3-
year NSF grant of $270,000 to study the
effects of aggregation-based nanoparticle
growth on both the extent and
mechanisms of metal uptake and
retention. Undergraduate students from
Schmid College, four local community
colleges, and Orange and Troy High
Schools will be involved in experiments
and research activities.
Chris Kim received a $100,000 gift to
create the Environmental Geochemistry
Research Fund.

23. $125,000 from the Waltmar
Foundation in support of a
Numaserver device and the
modernization of existing
Molecular Biology Research and
Teaching Labs.

24. New member of the Physics faculty, Justin
Dressel, Ph.D., helped win a $4 million
grant, of which $400,000 is subcontracted
to Chapman University, funded by the Army
Research Office (ARO) that is designed to
understand the continuous measurement
of superconducting quantum bits using
microwave fields.

25. Chapman University is part of a multi-
university, $1.5 million project funded by
the U.S. Department of Energy (DoE)
called the Spruce and Peatland Responses
Under Climate and Environmental Change
Experiment.
Jason Keller, Ph.D., associate professor of
Life and Environmental Sciences, is the
principal investigator.

26. Dr. Erik Linstead has received
$125,000 from CoreLogic, Inc. to
name the CoreLogic Machine
Learning Challenge and to establish
the CoreLogic Research Assistants
in Machine Learning in support of
undergraduate and graduate
research students assistantships in
his MLAT Lab.
Anivive, Inc. has donated $40,000
to create The Anivive Autism
Research Computing Cluster.