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Undergraduate research yields results for faculty and students alike
Across departments at Occidental, students benefit from the collaborative process of discovery with their faculty mentors.
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New research illuminates how glaciers have responded to past climate changes
Professor Darren Larsen and former student Aria Blumm ’19 analyzed sediment from a glacial lake to learn about glacier fluctuations and climate shifts over the last 10,000 years.
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New biology course explores the COVID-19 pandemic in real time
Co-taught by an Oxy professor and an Oxy alumna who is an infectious disease expert, the class features an impressive lineup of guest speakers including primatologist Jane Goodall...
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New Scholarship Program Aimed at Middle-Income California Students Launched
A new $3.2 million challenge fund will kickstart a drive to create the Edgerton-Occidental Merit Scholarship Program, a $9.6 million endowed fund that will make it possible for...
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Joshua Medina ’19 Awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
Joshua Medina ’19, whose chance encounters at Occidental with Greek statuary videos and a dog named Fred led to a new 3-D technique for documenting the colors of bird plumage, has...
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From 'Hairspray' to 'Hamilton'
DWA and politics major Lencia Kebede ’16 finds her way from the footlights of Keck Theater to the touring companies of two of Broadway’s biggest shows
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C. Riley Snorton Named 2020 Stafford Ellison Wright Black Alumni Scholar-in-Residence
University of Chicago cultural theorist C. Riley Snorton has been named Occidental College’s 2020 Stafford Ellison Wright Black Alumni Scholar-in-Residence.
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Occidental Upward Bound Celebrates 55 Years of Success
In 1965, as part of President Lyndon Johnson’s War on Poverty, Occidental College signed up for a new program called Upward Bound created to see if low-income high school students...
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