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… rats to study whether sibling bonds alleviate stress. "I was really interested in being able to develop and spearhead a project on my own," she said. "I wanted to get a taste of what doing research is like, since … jobs during the fellowship period. Support is provided by the College and by endowments, grants and gifts from many …
… almost no congregate living, under the guidelines imposed by the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health last July. The surge in cases then underway peaked in early January, with the county reporting a … to this year.” Adding to the sense of optimism on campus was the recent news that College and university faculty and …
… and anticipation, our Oxy community is looking forward to resuming the person-to-person interactions at the … year. Amidst the exuberant expectancy, we are very much aware that the pandemic remains with us. The surge of cases … Los Angeles County and in many parts of the country caused by the highly infectious Delta variant of COVID-19 is a …
… didn’t know the play and I didn’t look it up,” she says—it was Enigma Variations , by playwright Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt—but when she walked into the theater, she practically gasped as she …
… Summer Mailbag I was surprised that I liked the online format of the Oxy mag, … to Oxy. They were on the first in-person tour and Kanaya was the only student already admitted, so the tour guides … and Fowler halls) of a par-4 disc golf course created by Dawson Nichols ’89 and myself. At our 30th reunion, …
… the collections manager of Oxy’s Moore Lab of Zoology, out walking his dog, Fred. Maley gave Medina a tour of Moore … of the world’s largest collection of Mexican birds—“and I was absolutely blown away,” Medina remembers. “You get the … how mercury came to be added as an ingredient, and efforts by companies to replace it with less toxic alternatives. …
… of the action-adventure film genre: the expository dialogue by a super-villain with an ambiguously eastern European … contest. Although—spoiler alert—Lasseur didn ’t win, “I walked away with some great friends," he says. "I have a renewed …
… By Joy Hepp "What do you want to be when you grow up?" is a … entering the job market? For more than a decade, Oxy's Walk In My Shoes program, sponsored by the Career Development Center, has placed participants in … As Oxy's Walk In My Shoes program takes to the road, students …
… time Esperanza Spalding performed at the White House, it was February 2009, and she performed “Overjoyed” on the … too,” Spalding assured her. Getting feedback from Spalding “was surreal,” says Selna, who began singing when she was 10. … will receive in my entire music career.” Created in 2005 by an estate gift from the late G. William Hume ’50 M’52, …
… friends. I also urged them to read a remarkable column by New York Times columnist Frank Bruni titled “How to Get … he focuses on “how a student goes to school”—the best ways to pick up skills integral to any career and how … emphasizing the kind of wisdom that in many fundamental ways describes an Oxy liberal arts education. Bruni points …