Category: California
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
Pooja Singhal, a graduate student in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, has officially accepted a Lawrence Scholar Award from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL).
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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.
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.
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
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.
We're blushing: Occidental has one of America's 10 "most beautiful" college campuses, according to StructureHub, the architecture, d