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… opportunity to travel to this site I applied with encouragement from Prof. Harmon. For two weeks in late May, I … samples from the Whakamaru base eruption site off Highway 5 in New Zealand, currently believed to represent the … Once in New Zealand we changed course, drove south on Highway 5, and pulled over at a rain-soaked roadside exposure. …
… your career path in the art world? Occidental exposed me to new ideas. I was already an artist and committed to pursuing a career in … in Literature & Culture Damian Stocking . His passion was inspiring, as were the readings and classroom …
… Years at Oxy: 35 What attracted you to Occidental? I had always assumed that I would be a faculty member at a research institution. After a personal tragedy, I wanted to help people more directly, and realized that … “Mentoring students and making a difference in their lives …
… Bhavna Shamasunder, assistant professor of urban and environmental policy at Occidental College, shows that many South … development in dense urban areas." Many residents are unaware that Los Angeles contains 70 active oil fields. In Los … neighborhoods such as South Los Angeles, wells are located near a dense residential population and sensitive land uses …
… Several years ago, in the middle of the semester, Tsung Chi’s students in his Chinese Politics course … to teach,” he says—one that compares the democracies of Taiwan, South Korea, and Japan with China’s one-party state. … from China. At the height of the influx of Chinese students nearly a decade ago, perhaps 10-15 percent of the students …
… As a student at UC Santa Cruz, Margi Rusmore was the youngest member of the first American Women’s … she taught me to read through careful examination of the minerals and structures they contained. As I went on to take … all day, how to manage fear and discomfort (we had a near-miss with a grizzly bear and my tent blew away, leaving …
… Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) photography department, emphasizing their innovative contributions to the … Small classrooms and discussion seminars pushed me in ways another school would not have. When considering places … at museums in middle school. My community growing up was full of artists and creative people, often frustrated …
… This summer, I was paired with the Vantuna Research Group through the Research Early Access Program . I was encouraged to develop my own project that aligned with … and anthrozoology in mind, I decided to conduct a meta-analysis testing the benefits and grouping and social …
… procedural issues,” says Sandron, who works out of the Washington, D.C., Branch of the Division of Judges within … Francisco Branch—just like Sandron did at the outset of his nearly 50-year career in government service. “The substantive knowledge and writing and …
… that control the concentration (or absence) of critical minerals in magmatic rocks, particularly those of …