This is a central hub for research, scholarship, and creative activity on COVID-19 created by faculty, staff, and students of Chapman University.
To learn how to include your work, please email the Coordinator of Scholarly Communications & Electronic Resources, Kristin Laughtin-Dunker, at laughtin@chapman.edu.
Submissions from 2021
A Predictable Home Environment May Protect Child Mental Health During the COVID-19 Pandemic, Laura M. Glynn, Elyssia Poggi Davis, Joan L. Luby, Tallie Z. Baram, and Curt A. Sandman
Beliefs and their Byproducts: The Impact of Religiosity and Political Ideology on Attitudes Toward COVID-19, Vaccines, and Climate Change, Philip Goodrich
Promoting Academic Integrity and Student Learning in Online Biology Courses, Jeremy L. Hsu
Feasibility of Virtual Mock Trials as a Parallel Teaching-Assessment Activity for Student Pharmacists at Two American Pharmacy Programmes During the COVID-19 Pandemic and Beyond, Shih-Ying H. Hsu, Ettie Rosenberg, Hoai-An Truong, Lynn Lang, and Reza Taheri
Teaching in the Age of Covid-19—1 Year Later, Petar Jandrić, David Hayes, Paul Levinson, Line Lisberg Christensen, Happiness Onesmo Lukoko, Jimmy Ezekiel Kihwele, James Benedict Brown, Charles Reitz, Peter Mozelius, Harry G. Nejad, Ana Fuentes Martinez, Janine Aldous Arantes, Liz Jackson, Ulrika Gustafsson, Sandra Abegglen, Tom Burns, Sandra Sinfield, Michael Hogan, Pallavi Kishore, Paul R. Carr, Ivana Batarelo Kokić, Paul Prinsloo, Dennis Grauslund, Anne Steketee, Charlotte Achieng-Evensen, Blessing Funmi Komolafe, Juha Suoranta, Nina Hood, Marek Tesar, Jennifer Rose, Niklas Humble, James D. Kirylo, Julia Mañero, Lilia D. Monzó, Mikkel Lodahl, Jimmy Jaldemark, Susan Bridges, Navreeti Sharma, Jacob Davidsen, Jānis John Ozoliņš, Peter Bryant, Carlos Escaño, Jones Irwin, Kulpreet Kaur, Sarah Pfohl, Kevin Stockbridge, Thomas Ryberg, Olli Pyyhtinen, Suzanne SooHoo, Moses Kayade Hazzan, Jake Wright, Stephanie Hollings, Sonja Arndt, Andrew Gibbons, Shreya Urvashi, Daniella J. Forster, Ian Truelove, Peter Mayo, Glenn Rikowski, Paul Alexander Stewart, Michael Jopling, Georgina Tuari Stewart, Rachel Buchanan, Nesta Devine, Richa Shukla, Rene Novak, Madhav Mallya, Eva Biličić, Sean Sturm, Sahar D. Sattarzadeh, Abey P. Philip, Bridgette Redder, E. Jayne White, Derek R. Ford, Quaylan Allen, Mousumi Mukherjee, and Sarah Hayes
Global Cultural Shifts Induced by COVID-19, Wenshan Jia
US Media’s Coverage of China’s Handling of COVID-19: Playing the Role of the Fourth Branch of Government or the Fourth Estate?, Wenshan Jia and Fangzhu Lu
Leatherby Libraries from Home: Online and Social Media Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic, Rachel Karas and Essraa Nawar
Klein: Stop Closing Our Preschools, Shira Klein
My Good Deed This Year? A Wikipedia Assignment, Shira Klein
County-Level Factors That Influenced the Trajectory of COVID-19 Incidence in the New York City Area, Ashley Wendell Kranjac and Dinko Kranjac
“Professor Eric Can’t Hear”: Developing and Piloting a Teaching Case Study for an Upper Division Neurophysiology Course, Lexi Lee and Caroline Wilson
The Acute and Persisting Impact of COVID-19 on Trajectories of Adolescent Depression: Sex Differences and Social Connectedness, Sabrina R. Liu, Elyssia Poggi Davis, Anton M. Palma, Curt A. Sandman, and Laura M. Glynn
SARS-CoV-2 Early Infection Signature Identified Potential Key Infection Mechanisms and Drug Targets, Yue Li, Ashley Duche, Michael R. Sayer, Don Roosan, Farid G. Khalafalla, Rennolds S. Ostrom, Jennifer Totonchy, and Moom Roosan
Sickness Behaviors Across Vertebrate Taxa: Proximate and Ultimate Mechanisms, Patricia C. Lopes, Susannah S. French, Douglas C. Woodhams, and Sandra A. Binning
The Partisan Effects of COVID-19: News Sources and Mask Wearing, Lily Martin
Personality Rigidity and Psychopathology Pre and Post COVID19 Pandemic, Kiyono McDaniel and David Pincus
Martial Arts in the Pandemic, Martin J. Meyer, Andrea Molle, Benjamin N. Judkins, and Paul Bowman
Improvement of Atmospheric Pollution in the Capital Cities of US during COVID-19, Ritvik Mishra, Akshansha Chauhan, Ramesh P. Singh, N. C. Mishra, and Rozalin Mishra
Healthcare of Indigenous Amazonian Peoples in Response to COVID-19: Marginality, Discrimination and Revaluation of Ancestral Knowledge in Ucayali, Peru, Doreen Montag, Marco Barboza, Lizardo Cauper, Ivan Brehaut, Isaac Alva, Aoife Bennett, José Sanchez-Choy, Juan Pablo Sarmiento Barletti, Pilar Valenzuela, José Manuyama, Italo García Murayari, Miguel Guimaraes Vásquez, Celso Aguirre Panduro, Angela Giattino, Edwin Julio Palomino Cadenas, Rodrigo Lazo, Carlos A. Delgado, Alfonso Nino, Elaine C. Flores, Maria Amalia Pesantes, Juan Pablo Murillo, Luisa Elvira Belaunde, Sergio Recuenco, Robert Chuquimbalqui, and Carol Zavaleta-Cortijo
Suppression of Human Coronavirus 229E Infection in Lung Fibroblast Cells via RNA Interference, Hamidreza Montazeri Aliabadi, Jennifer Totonchy, Parvin Mahdipoor, Keykavous Parang, and Hasan Uludağ
Chapman University’s Leatherby Libraries Ramp Up Marketing and Promotion, Essraa Nawar and Kevin Ross
Fundamental Causes of Racial and Ethnic COVID-19-Related Health Disparities, Hana Neutz
Empty Chairs at Empty Tables: Opera in the Time of COVID-19, Opera Chapman
Drug Repurposing for COVID-19 Using Molecular Docking Tools, Deniz Yasar Oztas
Development of a Bamlanivimab Infusion Process in the Emergency Department for Outpatient COVID-19 Patients, Danny Pham, Sandy Wong, Christina T. Nguyen, Stephen C. Lee, and Kimberly J. Won
Social Network Structure Is Related to Functional Improvement From Home-Based Telerehabilitation After Stroke, Archana Podury, Sophia M. Raefsky, Lucy Dodakian, Liam McCafferty, Vu Le, Alison McKenzie, Jill See, Robert J. Zhou, Thalia Nguyen, Benjamin Vanderschelden, Gene Wong, Laila Nazarzai, Jutta Heckhausen, Steven C. Cramer, and Amar Dhand
Quality Evaluation of Consumer Health Information Websites Found on Google Using DISCERN, CRAAP, and HONcode, Ivan A. Portillo, Catherine V. Johnson, and Scott Y. Johnson
The Implications of COVID-19 on Fear of Financial Collapse, Alexis Reekie
Perceived Neighborhood Cohesion Buffers COVID-19 Impacts on Mental Health in a United States Sample, Jennifer W. Robinette, Georgiana Bostean, Laura M. Glynn, Jason A. Douglas, Brooke N. Jenkins, Tara L. Gruenewald, and David A. Frederick
Visual Infrastructures of COVID-19 Messaging, Julia Ross and Claudine Jaenichen
The Socially Distanced Library: Best Practices During and After COVID-19, Kevin Ross, Essraa Nawar, Joan Ruelle, Debbie Schachter, Monifa Carter, Ronald Davis, and Diane Duesterhoeft
COVID-19 Safety Guideline Compliance by Gender Identity, Emma Rothleutner
siRNA Therapeutics for the Therapy of COVID-19 and Other Coronaviruses, Muhammad Imran Sajid, Muhammad Moazzam, Yeseom Cho, Shun Kato, Ava Xu, J. J. Way, Sandeep Lohan, and Rakesh Tiwari
How COVID19 has Impacted Students Nutrition and Eating Habits with the Abrupt Closure of Restaurants and Campuses, Chloe Sermet
The “LOOMING DISASTER” for Higher Education: How Commercial Rankers Use Social Media to Amplify and Foster Affect, Riyad A. Shahjahan, Adam Grimm, and Ryan M. Allen
The Distrust of Experts, Noah Smith
Maintaining Physical Activity During COVID-19: The Influence of Psychosocial Variables in Individuals with Back Pain, Heidi Stabbert
Effects of News and Threat Perceptions on Americans’ COVID-19 Precautionary Behaviors, Riva Tukachinsky Forster and Megan A. Vendemia
Online Daters’ Sexually Explicit Media Consumption and Imagined Interactions, Megan A. Vendemia and Kathryn D. Coduto
The Coronavirus Pandemic: Associations of College Students' Financial Situations and Optimism with Mental & Physical Health, Harshitha V. Venkatesh, Julia K. Boehm, and Brooke N. Jenkins
Computational Analysis of Protein Stability and Allosteric Interaction Networks in Distinct Conformational Forms of the SARS CoV 2 Spike D614G Mutant: Reconciling Functional Mechanisms through Allosteric Model of Spike Regulation, Gennady M. Verkhivker, Steve Agajanian, Deniz Oztas, and Grace Gupta
Atomistic Simulations and In Silico Mutational Profiling of Protein Stability and Binding in the SARS-CoV-2 Spike Protein Complexes with Nanobodies: Molecular Determinants of Mutational Escape Mechanisms, Gennady M. Verkhivker, Steve Agajanian, Deniz Yasar Oztas, and Grace Gupta
Comparative Perturbation-Based Modeling of the SARS-CoV-2 Spike Protein Binding with Host Receptor and Neutralizing Antibodies: Structurally Adaptable Allosteric Communication Hotspots Define Spike Sites Targeted by Global Circulating Mutations, Gennady M. Verkhivker, Steve Agajanian, Deniz Yasar Oztas, and Grace Gupta
Landscape-Based Mutational Sensitivity Cartography and Network Community Analysis of the SARS-CoV-2 Spike Protein Structures: Quantifying Functional Effects of the Circulating D614G Variant, Gennady M. Verkhivker, Steve Agajanian, Deniz Yasar Oztas, and Grace Gupta
Dynamic Network Modeling of Allosteric Interactions and Communication Pathways in the SARS-CoV-2 Spike Trimer Mutants: Differential Modulation of Conformational Landscapes and Signal Transmission via Cascades of Regulatory Switches, Gennady M. Verkhivker and Luisa Di Paola
Integrated Biophysical Modeling of the SARS-CoV-2 Spike Protein Binding and Allosteric Interactions with Antibodies, Gennady M. Verkhivker and Luisa Di Paola
The Rise and Fall of the American Fear of Climate Change: Examining the Trends of Climate Change Fear in the United States, Hannah Waldorf
Submissions from 2020
Impact of Early Pandemic Stage Mutations on Molecular Dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 Mpro, Olivier Sheik Amamuddy, Gennady M. Verkhivker, and Özlem Tastan Bishop
California Consumer Sentiment Plunges 47 Percent in Last Days of March, Anderson Center for Economic Research
Growth in the California Manufacturing Sector Is on an Upward Trajectory, Anderson Center for Economic Research
Orange County Consumer Sentiment Continues Downward Spiral, Anderson Center for Economic Research
Orange County Consumer Sentiment Plunges 19 Percent, Anderson Center for Economic Research
The California Manufacturing Sector Dives, Anderson Center for Economic Research
The California Manufacturing Sector Recuperates, Anderson Center for Economic Research
California Consumer Sentiment Drops 22.4% in Second Quarter, Anderson Center for Economic Research and Lowe Institute of Political Economy
Has OC Consumer Sentiment Reached a Bottom?, Anderson Center for Economic Research and Lowe Institute of Political Economy
Is California Poised for Recovery?, Anderson Center for Economic Research and Lowe Institute of Political Economy
Pandemics Prey on Fears, Both Legitimate and Illegitimate, Joseph O. Baker, Ann Gordon, Edward Day, and Christoper Bader
Co-innovating a Paradigm Shift from a Pandemic, Tara Barnhart
Rationing Social Contact During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Transmission Risk and Social Benefits of US Locations, Seth G. Benzell, Avinash Collis, and Christos Nicolaides
Shutdown Policies and Worldwide Conflict, Nicolas Berman, Mathieu Couttenier, Nathalie Monnet, and Rohit Ticku
Boyd and Blaser: An Uneven COVID-19 Toll in Orange County and Elsewhere — Orange County Isn’t the World, But is Part of It, Art Blaser and LouAnne Boyd
Covid-19 on Route of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, Luis Bonilla-Molina and Jorge Rodriguez
Carty and Barraza: The Hidden Victims of Covid-19, Victoria Carty and Greg Barraza
Decline in PM2.5 Concentrations over Major Cities Around the World Associated with COVID-19, Akshansa Chauhan and Ramesh P. Singh
Effect of Lockdown on HCHO and Trace Gases over India during March 2020, Akshansha Chauhan and Ramesh P. Singh
COVID-19 Viral Testing Disparities in Los Angeles City, Laura Cyphers
A Model to Explain Statewide Differences in COVID-19 Death Rates, James L. Doti
COVID-19 Treatment Resource Disparities and Social Disadvantage in New York City, Jason A. Douglas and Andrew M. Subica
Comorbidity Factors Influence COVID-19 Mortality Much More than Age, Steven Gjerstad and Andrea Molle
Viral Social Media Videos Can Raise Pro-Social Behaviours When an Epidemic Arises, Youting Guo, Jason Shachat, Matthew J. Walker, and Lijia Wei
When You Can’t R.I.O.T., R.I.O.: Tele-assessment for School Psychologists, Michael R. Hass and Brian P. Leung
The Impact of COVID-19 on Pharmacy Transitions of Care Services, Kristen A. Herzik and Laressa Bethishou
Interdependence and the Cost of Uncoordinated Responses to COVID-19, David Holtz, Michael Zhao, Seth G. Benzell, Cathy Y. Cao, Mohammad Amin Rahimian, Jeremy Yang, Jennifer Allen, Avinash Collis, Alex Moehring, Tara Sowrirajan, Dipayan Ghosh, Yunhao Zhang, Paramveer S. Dhillon, Christos Nicolaides, Dean Eckles, and Sinan Aral
Using Primary Literature on SARS‐CoV‐2 to Promote Student Learning about Evolution, Jeremy L. Hsu
Student Perceptions of an Inquiry‐Based Molecular Biology Lecture and Lab Following a Mid‐Semester Transition to Online Teaching, Jeremy L. Hsu and Melissa Rowland-Goldsmith
Teaching in the Age of Covid-19, Petar Jandrić, David Hayes, Ian Truelove, Paul Levinson, Peter Mayo, Thomas Ryberg, Lilia D. Monzó, Quaylan Allen, Paul Alexander Stewart, Paul R. Carr, Liz Jackson, Susan Bridges, Carlos Escaño, Dennis Grauslund, Julia Mañero, Happiness Onesmo Lukoko, Peter Bryant, Ana Fuentes-Martinez, Andrew Gibbons, Sean Sturm, Jennifer Rose, Mohamed Muhibu Chuma, Eva Biličić, Sarah Pfohl, Ulrika Gustafsson, Janine Aldous Arantes, Derek R. Ford, Jimmy Ezekiel Kihwele, Peter Mozelius, Juha Suoranta, Lucija Jurjević, Matija Jurjević, Anne Steketee, Jones Irwin, E. Jayne White, Jacob Davidsen, Jimmy Jaldemark, Sandra Abegglen, Tom Burns, Sandra Sinfield, James D. Kirylo, Ivana Batarelo Kokić, Georgina Tuari Stewart, Glenn Rikowski, Line Lisberg Christensen, Sonja Arndt, Olli Pyyhtinen, Charles Reitz, Mikkel Lodahl, Niklas Humble, Rachel Buchanan, Daniella J. Forster, Pallavi Kishore, Jānis John Ozoliņš, Navreeti Sharma, Shreya Urvashi, Harry G. Nejad, Nina Hood, Marek Tesar, Yang Wang, Jake Wright, James Benedict Brown, Paul Prinsloo, Kulpreet Kaur, Mousumi Mukherjee, Rene Novak, Richa Shukla, Stephanie Hollings, Ulla Konnerup, Madhav Mallya, Anthony Olorundare, Charlotte Achieng-Evensen, Abey P. Philip, Moses Kayade Hazzan, Kevin Stockbridge, Blessing Funmi Komolafe, Ogunyemi Folasade Bolanle, Michael Hogan, Bridgette Redder, Sahar D. Sattarzadeh, Michael Jopling, Suzanne SooHoo, Nesta Devine, and Sarah Hayes
Nicaragua's Response to COVID-19 – Authors' Reply, Mateo Jarquin, Andrea M. Prado, and Benjamin Gallo Marin
Voluntary Collective Isolation as a Best Response to COVID-19 for Indigenous Populations? A Case Study and Protocol from the Bolivian Amazon, Hillard Kaplan, Benjamin C. Trumble, Jonathan Stieglitz, Roberta Mendez Mamany, Maguin Gutierrez Cayuba, Leonardina Maito Moye Lic, Sarah Alami, Thomas Kraft, Raul Quispe Gutierrez, Juan Copajira, Randall C. Thompson, Gregory S. Thomas, David E. Michalik, Daniel Eid Rodriguez, and Michael Gurven
Leveraging Volunteer Fact Checking to Identify Misinformation about COVID-19 in Social Media, Hyunuk Kim and Dylan Walker
Decomposing Differences in Coronavirus disease 2019-related Case-Fatality Rates across Seventeen Nations, Ashley Wendell Kranjac and Dinko Kranjac
Together We Stand: The Solidarity Effect of Personized Sellers on Essential Workers, Katina Kulow, Kara Bentley, and Priyali Rajagopal
Coronavirus and Museum Resilience: Some Preliminary Observations, Jamie Larkin
Dispatch from Orange, California, Anna Leahy
How to Track Time, Anna Leahy
What Happens When Literary Events Move Online? A Look at the Book World’s New Digital Reality, Anna Leahy, Sam Risak, and Tryphena Yeboah
Menu-Dependent Food Choices and Food Waste, Hongxing Liu, Joaquín Gómez-Miñambres, and Danyi Qi
Investigating the Significance of Aerosols in Determining the Coronavirus Fatality Rate Among Three European Countries, Wenzhao Li, Rejoice Thomas, Hesham el-Askary, Thomas Piechota, Daniele Struppa, and Khaled A. Abdel Ghaffar
We Are Not Alone in Trying to Be Alone, Patricia C. Lopes
Mainero and Smoller: Response to Wagner, Mario Maneiro and Fred Smoller
Pandemic Abandonment, Panoramic Displays and Fascist Propaganda: The Month the Earth Stood Still, Peter McLaren
Religious Nationalism and the Coronavirus Pandemic: Soul-Sucking Evangelicals and Branch Covidians Make America Sick Again, Peter McLaren
Reflections I and II: Reflexiones desde la educación y las artes en la era COVID-19 | Reflexões da Educação e das Artes na Era da COVID-19 | Reflections from Education and the Arts in the COVID-19 Era, Peter McLaren, Wang Yan, and Petar Jandrić
Understanding COVID-19: From Origin to Potential Therapeutics, Muhammad Moazzam, Muhammad Imran Sajid, Hamza Shahid, Jahanzaib Butt, Irfan Bashir, Muhammad Jamshaid, Amir Nasrolahi Shirazi, and Rakesh Kumar Tiwari
Colonialism, Migration, Pandemic: The Immutable Evidence that Capitalism Is Racist and Misogynist, Lilia D. Monzó
Comparative Antiviral Activity of Remdesivir and Anti-HIV Nucleoside Analogs against Human Coronavirus 229E (HCoV-229E), Keykavous Parang, Naglaa Salem El-Sayed, Assad J. Kazeminy, and Rakesh Tiwari