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… pre-Hispanic Mexican history and avian phylogenetics. After taking history Professor Lisa Sousa’s course Indians … the most about Oxy is working in the Moore Lab. The other was taking this class," says Salter, a biology major from … World. Both Souza and McCormack say that the collaboration was a natural fit, and students walk away with new …
… applause himself. "As a baseball player, I am interested in ways to enhance skill and performance," Fudge says. "As a … of learning or performance from one side of the body after training the other). Though individuals can clearly …
… Jonathan Veitch before he and Trustee Eileen Brown '73 awarded the artists honorary degrees in front of a large … have made that debate the very essence of their art." After a brief speech, Christo showed a slideshow of his work … visible to rafters as well as motorists on U.S. Highway 50 traveling between Canon City and Salida. "I like the …
… universities have a crucial role to play in safeguarding upward mobility." Despite the success of colleges like … appreciated and often misunderstood, Veitch said. "If one wants to understand the value of the liberal arts, one need … no matter! ... Clearly, Jonathan has found a community after his own heart at Occidental, a community where …
… 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 …