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… Why did you choose to apply for this award? The Critical Language Scholarship is an unparalleled … deepen my understanding of a language that’s important to me. Learning Chinese will not only hopefully be helpful in … to my heritage through language mastery. To reclaim what was lost due to the impact of America's homogenizing culture …
… Why did you choose to apply for this award? I chose to apply for this award because I wanted the opportunity to study abroad … the burden of the financial aspect. This award allowed me to fully immerse myself in the cultural and academic … work promoting STEM-based study abroad opportunities to women of color. …
… subject matter.” Abandoning academic connotations that came to be associated with Abstract Expressionism, he looked … material—to the forefront of painting. Working in diverse media with humor and wit, he oscillates between sign and … exclamation in yellow block letters on a blue ground—it is nearly impossible to look at the painting without …
… Majors: Economics, DWA “I always knew that I wanted to embark on a career that aligned with my interests and would challenge me, and the liberal arts education that Occidental offered …
… teaching career, only once did a first-year, first-semester student show up in his office with a research proposal that they wanted to begin immediately. As a religion major at Oxy, … that runs from the El Cerrito and Richmond flats up to near Wildcat Canyon Regional Park in the hills above. “After …
… in 1980, the friends gathered at Oxy's Lucille Y. Gilman Memorial Fountain to carpool to their destination. With arms crossed over his buttoned-down Hawaiian shirt, Barry Obama '83 stood against the fountain's … at the College from Punahou School in Honolulu to be near his girlfriend. "I had graduated without mishap, was …
… As a first-generation college student, what are some of the challenges you faced that some of your peers … how college works made my transition even more difficult. I was unaware of the available resources and opportunities, and I …
… View photo gallery Not long after he was caught and tagged by wildlife biologists in 2012, P-22—a … a 20-mile odyssey that crossed the 405 and 101 freeways—became the face of urban wildlife in Southern California. … Wildlife Crossing over a 10-lane stretch of the 101 Freeway near Liberty Canyon in Agoura Hills. (The 200-foot-long, …
… in the U.S. The film takes the perspective of a documentarian investigating a group of abandoned androids in the … failed robot uprising. Left to themselves in what is now a wasteland, the droids obsess over the only information … K. Dick novel on which Ridley Scott’s film Blade Runner was based. Like Dick and Scott, Hossain is interested in …
… Science and music: a complementary combination Science and music are generally seen as … in Cellular and Molecular Biology because of my passion for wanting to be a medical doctor, but also due to my … In terms of music, I’ve been playing the cello since I was 5 years old and it was the centerpiece of my life …