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… popular music in America. As a young man, "My big problem was to get girls," Gordy said in discussing the importance of turning negatives into positives. "I was never as tall as I wanted to be, there was always … of American studies and former dean who is retiring after serving Occidental for 38 years. …
… the things that they taught me are working," Santana said. After barely finishing high school while growing up in the Bay Area, Santana said he looked inward, seizing on a God-given talent for music. "God only … gift you have. Everyone is gifted here in your own supreme way. My gift is I love piercing people’s hearts with the …
… "As Stravinsky was writing this opera in North Hollywood in the 1940s — a time when Los Angeles was ripping up its red cars and expanding its freeways — the … to write the opera (purportedly at a Hollywood IHOP) after seeing British artist William Hogarth's eight …
… ’76 read a Los Angeles Times story about USC’s plans to award diplomas posthumously to 120 Japanese American students deprived of a USC degree during World War II. The story prompted him to research Oxy’s own wartime … student experience,” says Stieber, who retired in December after 17 years at Oxy. “Michael White and the Grace Nixon …
… wrote prior to joining the Oxy faculty in 1991 (when he was a visiting assistant professor of applied mathematics at … is one of the most satisfying aspects of academic life.” It was not uncommon to find Knoerr helping out his students long after office hours. One student said “they routinely worked …
… When Sharp came to Oxy in the early 1990s, it was not long after the beating of Rodney King by Los Angeles police and the subsequent 1992 L.A. riots, which he remembers watching on television from his living room in his … Sam Sharp was drawn to Occidental for its diversity and the political …
… but relatively little exploration has taken place below the water’s surface. Aboard the research vessel Western Flyer … visited five sites between 2,600 and 3,300 feet deep. Each was chosen as a unique natural laboratory where the cycling … a calm weather window with ferocious winds just before and after our time at sea. We had an incredibly hard-working …
… In July, shortly after I arrived, one of my first steps to ensure a proper focus on COVID-related planning was to implement a COVID Operations Group (COG). Distinct … and James Uhrich, vice president of information technology services. The other members include Rob Flot, dean of …
… the student government’s Diversity and Equity Board , and I was recently been elected by the entire student body as … much from the professional staff at the HCC that I knew I wanted to work there, share my knowledge with others, and … rewarding to see a student more relieved and cheerful after an advising session than when they first walked in. …
… in town: The discovery of pioneer species Thiolava veneris after a submarine volcanic eruption 11:30-12:15 CORA DAVIES …