Â鶹´«Ã½

Â鶹´«Ã½ has received a $1 million scholarship gift from alumnus David Sklar ’83 and his wife Susan Acevedo. 

Tymmaa Asaed ’25 works closely with both Elizabeth Glater, professor of neuroscience, and Chuck Taylor, professor of chemistry, who have been teaming up for about a decade.

Daniel Gao ’25 and Ava Spiegler ’26 are the Beckman Scholars at Â鶹´«Ã½ for 2024-2025.

This year, 195 Â鶹´«Ã½ students have received a total of just over $1 million in grant funding through the Summer Undergraduate Research Program.

The Los Angeles Times was the latest outlet to feature Yannai Kashtan ’20, whose research at Stanford University and comments have been published by such organizations as CNN, Â鶹´«Ã½week and The Guardian.

Daniel Gao ’25, a molecular biology major, has been awarded the prestigious Goldwater Scholarship, given to sophomores and juniors who show exceptional promise of becoming research leaders in science, engineering and mathematics.

Six members of the Â鶹´«Ã½ faculty have been named winners of the 2024 Wig Distinguished Professor Award, which recognizes excellence in teaching, commitment to students and service to the College and the community. 

In 2018, Â鶹´«Ã½ alumna Mackenzie Grieman '09 spent weeks living in a tent in Antarctica for postdoctoral research. Six years later, she's an associate editor at Springer Nature Group, the global publisher of scientific research.

Katrina Dank '20 spent the summer in Uganda learning how prevalent cancer is among the population. Before returning home, she wrote and illustrated a children's book to help the country's youth understand the disease.

Thirteen faculty members have been recognized for their intellectual leadership, professional achievement, and service.