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Occidental College Receives Research Activity Designation
Occidental College’s research activity has officially been recognized in the 2025 Carnegie Classifications, a categorization system that groups higher education institutions with...
Professor Sabrina Stierwalt
Prof. Sabrina Stierwalt Receives Cottrell Scholar Award
Extragalactic astrophysicist Sabrina Stierwalt, assistant professor of physics at Occidental College, has been awarded a 2025 Cottrell Scholar Award for her ongoing study of small...
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Occidental Faculty to Share Their Research on The Academic Minute
Starting July 15, five Occidental faculty members will share their expertise on The Academic Minute, a daily radio segment that highlights researchers from colleges and...
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Occidental Canine Cognition Lab Studies Social Relationships Between Humans and Dogs
Assistant Professor of Psychology Zachary Silver has launched a canine cognition laboratory to study how dogs make sense of the complicated human social world in which they live...
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Occidental Alumni Earn NSF Recognition for Graduate Research
Three Occidental alumni received 2024 fellowships from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) to support their ongoing academic research...
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Professor John McCormack Named AAAS Fellow
Professor of Biology John McCormack, director and curator of Occidental College’s Moore Lab of Zoology, has been selected as a 2023 American Association for the Advancement of...
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Junior Lily Gebhart Receives Prestigious Goldwater Scholarship
Lily Gebhart ’25, a cognitive science and mathematics major, has been named a 2024 Goldwater Scholar. Gebhart will receive $7,500 each semester for the remainder of her...
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Occidental College Names 2024–25 Science Scholars
Four Occidental College students in the fields of chemistry, cognitive science, physics, and geology make up this year’s cohort of Science Scholars. They have been presented...
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