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Occidental Receives Grant for National Collaboration To Promote Inclusive Excellence in STEM
Occidental Receives Grant for National Collaboration To Promote Inclusive Excellence in STEM
Occidental College has been selected to be a part of a nationwide, 15-institution cohort that will explore new ways to promote inclusive excellence in STEM higher education.
Namandjé Bumpus ’03
Namandjé Bumpus ’03 Named FDA Chief Scientist
Occidental College trustee and Johns Hopkins Professor Namandjé Bumpus ’03 has been named as the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s new chief scientist . Bumpus succeeds Rear...
Three Occidental College Graduates Win NSF Graduate Research Fellowships
Three Win NSF Graduate Research Fellowships
A graduating Occidental senior and two alumni have been awarded prestigious National Science Foundation Graduate Research fellowships, awarded annually to candidates in the...
(Clockwise order): Peter Grimmett '23, Mira Ranganath '23, Edin Custo '23, Tehreen Navira Hai '23, Jack Thomas-Colwell '23
Occidental College Names 2022-23 Science Scholars
Five Occidental College students collaborating with faculty mentors in the fields of geology, physics, biochemistry, biology and chemistry have been named 2022-23 Science Scholars...
Greenland is one possible destination for Occidental's student Fulbright applicants.
Occidental Is Top Student Fulbright Producer
For the seventeenth consecutive year, Occidental College is one of the country’s top producers of student Fulbright Awards, according to the Chronicle of Higher Education’s annual...
Summer 2021 REAP student group
Sherman Fairchild Grant to Support Underrepresented Students in the Sciences
A three-year, $247,500 grant from the Sherman Fairchild Foundation will fund Occidental’s latest effort to increase the number of academically talented underrepresented and first...
Anahy Lizarraga '23 in the biology lab
2021 Summer Research Program Brings Students a Step Closer to Normalcy
More than 100 students have convened at Occidental for the annual 10-week research program, some living and learning on campus for the very first time.
New Occidental study provides new hope for kelp beds devastated by sea urchins
New Hope for Kelp Beds and Commercial Fisheries after Sea Urchin Devastation
A massive die-off of purple sea urchins off the Southern California coast in 2015 provides new evidence that deliberate efforts to cull urchins can be a key strategy to bring back...
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