STUDENT NEWS: Students receive highest honors at the 2011 Campus Leadership Awards

Mark Johnston ('11) and Liz Ficken ('11) were awarded with two of the university's most prestigious student leadership awards.

Johnston won the Cheverton Award, the highest honor for a student. In addition to academic accomplishments, awardees must demonstrate a “high moral character” and “represent the spirit of Chapman University.”

Ficken won the Gloria and Julian Peterson Award, awarded to one graduating senior for his or her outstanding and distinguished leadership.
Learn more about the Campus Leadership awards here.

EVENTS NEWS: PHI Alpha Theta 2011 SOCAL Regional Conference, April 9

The Chapman University History Department and Alpha-Mu-Gamma chapter of Phi Alpha Theta are proud to host the 2011 Phi Alpha Theta Southern California Regional Conference on April 9, 2011.

Undergraduate and graduate students from across the nation be presenting their papers to a panel of judges.

We are excited to announce that renowned American historian, Kevin Starr (pictured left), will be speaking at the banquet. Among his many awards, Professor Starr was the 2009 winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in History for Golden Dreams: California in an Age of Abundance 1950-1963.

Conference Details:
 Location: Beckman Hall, 2nd floor, Chapman University
Time:  9 a.m. - 5 p.m.
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ALUMNI NEWS: Giczy ('09) presented with the first Raymond J. Cunningham Prize for research paper

Hailey Giczy ('09) and Associate Professor of History Lee Estes flew to Boston and the Annual American Historical Association Conference, together with Hailey's mom, on Thursday,  January 6th.  Friday morning everyone woke early for a behind the scenes tour of the 1795 Charles Bullfinch Massachusetts State House just off the Boston Commons.  The tour was led by Phu Mai, a Chapman history graduate ('08), and now an aide for a state representative.  Afterwards, they had lunch at America's oldest restaurant, the Union Oyster House.  Friday evening at the AHA Annual Meeting Hailey was formally presented with the first Raymond J. Cunningham Prize for her research paper, "The Bum Blockade: Los Angeles and the Great Depression," by the retiring President of the AHA, Barbara Metcalf.  The prize also included a $200 check for Voces Novae, the journal in which Hailey's paper was published.  On Saturday Phu took everyone on an auto tour of the battlefields of Lexington and Concord as well as to the historic seaport of Salem where the famous witch trials took place.  Lee returned home Saturday evening and Hailey's mom on Sunday, but Hailey stayed around until Tuesday in order to take in more of Boston's historic sights.

Watch Hailey receive her award below at the 9:45 mark.

 

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