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James Ford III Awarded MLA’s Scarborough Prize for First Book
James Ford III , associate professor of English and Black Studies , has been presented with the Modern Language Association of America’s 2020 William Sanders Scarborough Prize for...
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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.
Oxy student TreShunda James, class of 2019
Oxy Awarded $1 Million NSF Grant To Address U.S. Shortage of STEM Graduates
A five-year, $1 million grant from the National Science Foundation will make it possible to build on the success of an Occidental College program addressing the national shortage...
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NSF Grant To Fund Study of How Race and Immigration Status Shape Public Understanding of Science
Using a case study of skin-whitening beauty products, a three-year, $479,480 National Science Foundation grant will fund an Occidental study of how the intersection of race...
Professor Jane Hong
Hong Featured in PBS Docuseries “Asian Americans”
For Occidental College Associate Professor of History Jane Hong , the lightbulb went on when she realized that the history she was studying as a Yale undergraduate had a direct...
Josh Medina '19
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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Photo Project Builds Connections Between Patients, Doctors in Pandemic
Five years ago, Mary Beth Heffernan of Occidental’s art department flew to Liberia with a simple idea: Would portraits worn on the outside of their frightening personal protection...
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