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Center for Research & Scholarship

The Center for Research & Scholarship (CRS) supports, promotes, and builds community around faculty research, scholarship, creative work, and professional achievement.

The programs and resources offered by the Center for Research & Scholarship, which was founded in 2016, are guided by the following goals:

  • To support faculty members in their scholarship and creative work, through activities that include but are not limited to workshops, mentorship, and funding
  • To promote scholarly achievement to internal and external stakeholders, including the media, alumni and trustees, donors, parents, prospective students, and the public
  • To build intellectual community and cultivate a vibrant intellectual life on campus by sponsoring events and leading initiatives that make scholarship, research, and creative work feel seen and valued

Faculty wishing to make use of the Center should indicate the kind of support they want on the .

View a blueprint of CRS activities

 

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Featured Grants & Awards

Natasha Sekhon

Assistant Professor of Geology Natasha Sekhon has been awarded a grant to carry on an expedition in the Summer 2025 to explore caves in northwest India as potential sites to investigate changes in the Indian Summer Monsoon. Following the mission goal, Sekhon will carry a WINGS Flag to remote landscapes in the Himalayas. Their support will help her start a project in India where she hopes to bring students.

Prof. Sekhon has also been awarded two National Science Foundation Collaborative Research Grants: 1) The Drivers of Regionally Coherent Meridional Variability Across the Australian and Asian Monsoons Over the Common Era, and 2) RUI: Constraining Tropical Hydroclimate Responses to Periods of Abrupt Hydrological Changes Using Cave Deposits, Cave Monitoring, and Model Outputs

Âé¶¹ÊÓÆµ emeritus professor of kinesiology Stuart Rugg headshot

Professor of Kinesiology Stuart Rugg was awarded the Honorary Alumni Seal Award for Emeriti Faculty by the Âé¶¹ÊÓÆµ Alumni Association who recognizes inspiring alumni who represent the values and spirit at the core of the Âé¶¹ÊÓÆµ experience. Stuart joined the Occidental faculty in 1987, and will retire this June after 38 years at the College. His research interests focus on musculoskeletal mechanics and their application to human performance. A five-time recipient of the Donald R. Loftsgordon Memorial Award for Outstanding Teaching, he also received the College's Linda and Tod White Teaching Prize in 2008. Stuart has worked as a design consultant for exercise and sports equipment companies. See the Âé¶¹ÊÓÆµ Story here.

Vivian Wenli Lin

Assistant Professor of Media Arts & Culture Vivian Wenli Lin was selected for the  grant from the Mellon Foundation. Lin will work alongside four students to provide media workshops for API Rise, an organization supporting those formerly incarcerated or detained Asian immigrants/refugees, Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders.

Contact Center for Research & Scholarship
Aleksandra Sherman
Associate Professor, Cognitive Science; Director, Center for Research & Scholarship