OCCIDENTAL COLLEGE
Awards & Athletics Faculty and students make Oxy proud with accolades, advances, and academic excellence
Occidental broke its own record for most Fulbright award winners in a year: 13. Fulbright winners with an English teaching assistantship include: Jacqueline Ayala ’14 of Fort Bragg (who traveled to Mexico); Asha Canady ’12 of Sacramento (Greece); Alexandra Loomer ’14 of Burbank (Ecuador); Nicholas Nam ’13 of Edmonds, Wash. (Turkey); Pablo Romano ’14 of Santa Clarita (Argentina); and Juliet Suess ’14 of Chicago (Germany). Fulbright winners conducting study/research abroad are: Tania Flores ’13 of Chico (who traveled to Spain); Kristina Geiger ’14 (pictured, above) of Fairlawn, Ohio (Switzerland); Ryan Metzler ’14 of Doylestown, Pa. (New Zealand); Jason Prebel ’14 of Kaneohe, Hawaii (New Zealand); Pauline Shoemaker ’12 of Arlington, Va. (Bangladesh); Lauren Siverly ’14 of Federal Way, Wash. (Argentina); and Haiyun (Julie) Xu ’14 of Northville, Mich. (Mexico).
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Henry Dickmeyer ’15, an economics major from Seattle, received the American Educational Research Association Fellowship Award. Dickmeyer participated in the AERA Undergraduate Student Education Research Training Workshop in Philadelphia in April.
A record four Oxy grads— Jordan Dias ’14, Gregory Earnest ’14 (hugging Dean of Students Barbara Avery at Commencement), Estrella Lucero ’14, and Jennifer Pope ’08—were selected to participate in the Coro Fellows Program in Public Affairs— a full-time, nine-month, graduate-level leadershiptraining program.
Mario Castillo ’13, a diplomacy and world affairs major from Downey, participated in a monthlong program in Europe in summer 2014 as a recipient of the Humanity in Action Fellowship.
Christina Seyfried ’15, an economics and diplomacy and world affairs double major from Vienna, Austria, was selected as a Davis Project for Peace recipient. Seyfried and Stephane Kattie from UC San Diego spent last summer in Ghana implementing their project, Let There Be Light.
Cecilia Prator ’12 and Kosa Kendall Goucher-Lambert ’11 received National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowships. Prator, a biology major, is pursuing a Ph.D. in environmental science at UC Berkeley. Goucher-Lambert, a physics major, is pursuing a doctorate in mechanical engineering at Carnegie Mellon in Pittsburgh.
Three Oxy juniors—Jarron Brady of St. Louis, Samarah Jackson of Lancaster, and Kerry Sakimoto of Honolulu— were named Public Policy and International Affairs Fellows at UC Berkeley. The PPIA Fellowship Program prepares participants from diverse backgrounds for graduate studies in public affairs or international affairs and grooms them for professional roles in public service.
Anton Molina ’15, a physics and chemistry major from Daly City, received a 2014 Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship—the 36th Oxy student to win a Goldwater since 1990.