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… The book (which features illustrations by some of Shtulman’s students) will be available April 25 … When we rely on our own powers of reasoning, we almost always get these questions wrong, Shtulman says. Even worse, … the world we develop as children. They're not only almost always incorrect, they close our minds to ideas inconsistent …
… Oxy education gives them." Occidental’s 2015-16 Fulbright award winners are: Carolina Cardoza ’16, a critical theory and social justice major from Highland Park, who was sent to Guatemala with an English teaching grant Lichun … was established in 1946 under legislation introduced by Sen. J. William Fulbright of Arkansas. The program …
… Colonial Mexico (Stanford University Press, 2017) has been awarded the AHA’s 2018 Friedrich Katz Prize in Latin American … "I am honored that the book received these prestigious awards from the American Historical Association and the … writings from colonial Mexico and Guatemala, published by Cambridge University Press in 2005. …
… Rocks and Minerals, Crime Busters, Food Science, Thermodynamics and Water Quality. Back this year is the popular Scrambler, in which high school students must build a vehicle powered by a gravitational falling mass with an egg strapped to the …
… Chronicle rankings , ahead of such colleges as Amherst, Swarthmore, Wellesley, Macalester, and Claremont McKenna. The record number of Fulbright winners was a highlight of one of Oxy’s most successful years in … fourth winner in four years (a record matched only by Yale). Bianca Fonseca Cervantes '14 received a Truman …
… major In Young Lee '13's original plan to study the Berlin Wall as an art object "went out the window" once she got to … with local scholars and experts, she realized that the Wall was a "pivotal cultural monument that embraces not only …
… , Evans is one of 90 people worldwide to receive the award. The annual Gates Cambridge Scholarship, similar to Oxford University's Rhodes scholarship, is awarded for intellectual ability, leadership capacity, and a … importer of certified organic and fair-trade coffee founded by Oxy alumnus David Griswold '84. As Sustainable Harvest's …
… of the problem--1 billion people do not have access to safe water supplies--there is hope for a sustainable future, said … Oakland-based Pacific Institute, 2003 MacArthur "Genius Award" Fellow, and author of the new book, Bottled and Sold: … Lectureship on Energy and the Environment was established by Occidental alumna Louise Edgerton '67 and her husband …
… to the NSF website. Last year, only 425 CAREER grants were awarded nationwide out of 2,500 proposals, mostly to scholars … the first time an Occidental faculty member has won the award: chemistry professor Eileen Spain was honored in 1997. … whether complex scientific phenomenon, such as evolution by natural selection, cannot be taught until high school, or …
… All events are free and open to the public. Described by novelist Dave Eggers as "one of the most deliriously … the Chicago Humanities Festival. For more than 20 years, he was a staff writer at The New Yorker . His books include Mr. … (winner of the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism). Weschler’s public lecture series, which …