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Occidental Sociologist Receives Innovation in Teaching Award

April 19, 2010

Lisa Wade, an Occidental College assistant sociology professor, has been honored with the Pacific Sociological Association's Early Career Award for Innovation in Teaching Sociology in recognition of her creative and novel teaching methods.

The Sacramento, Calif.-based association b


Biomedical engineering graduate student named Lawrence Scholar

April 16, 2010

Pooja Singhal, a graduate student in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, has officially accepted a Lawrence Scholar Award from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL).


'Outlaw biology' event at UCLA looks at cutting-edge science in the hands of the public

January 26, 2010

WHAT:
At-home medical genetics, open-source science, bio-art, do-it-yourself DNA kits — the life sciences are open to the public as never before, and citizen scientists, from gentleman researchers to high school students and hackers, are tinkering with life as they find it.


Teens Recruited for Science Challenge

January 22, 2010

An aquatic science challenge in Southern California that is sponsored in part by USC reached a new audience of middle school and high school students this year.


Nanodevices Bend under the Force of Light

November 20, 2009

A team of researchers has fabricated a micron-scale device that deforms significantly under the force of light, a technology that could form the basis for tiny light-actuated switches or filters in future optical devices.
 
In recent years several groups have engineered novel structures on scales so


Network Science: From Wireless Communication to H1N1 and Cascading Power Failures

November 20, 2009

In 1996, a power failure in California rippled across the western United States, leaving more than 4 million customers – from Canada to Mexico – without electricity.


Pan Selected for NAE's 2009 Japan-America Frontiers of Engineering Symposium

November 20, 2009

Janet Pan has been chosen as one of only 30 outstanding engineers in the US to be invited to the National Academy of Engineering 2009 Japan-America Frontiers of Engineering (JAFOE) Symposium to be held on Nov 9-11 in


Occidental Campus Named One of America's "Most Beautiful"

October 25, 2009

We're blushing: Occidental has one of America's 10 "most beautiful" college campuses, according to StructureHub, the architecture, d


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