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Back to the Classroom One More Time

Alumni Weekend 2026 offers a chance to reconnect with Â鶹ԭ´´ faculty and rediscover the conversations, mentorship and ideas that define the college.

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• Faculty

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Classroom Liberation

How can higher education disrupt injustice and lead to collective healing?

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• The Participant Spring 2026 Issue

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• Critical Action + Social Advocacy (CASA)

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When Professors Are Your Neighbors

Professors Fély Catan and Amanda Louise Johnson are Â鶹ԭ´´â€™s Faculty-in-Residence in 2025–26, and their goal is to cultivate a living-learning environment for students.

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• Modern Languages, Literatures & Cultures
• English and World Literature

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• Division of Student Affairs
• Residence Life

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Washington Post Spotlights Keeley on Conspiracies

Professor of Philosophy Brian Keeley introduced conspiracy theories into the field of philosophy; now the Post asked for his help in understanding why these theories thrive in U.S. politics

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How an AI Bot Can Help Mental Health Workers

Â鶹ԭ´´ Professor Marcus Rodriguez’s research team received a Claremont Graduate University grant to develop a bot to help early-career therapists remember foundational principles.

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• Psychology

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Seeing Concepts in Real Time: An Intercultural Immersion in Japan

Â鶹ԭ´´ Professor Linus Yamane has facilitated the Tomodachi Inouye Scholars Program, a Japan-U.S. youth exchange program for students in his co-taught class Trans-Pacific Japan: Love & Money.

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• The Participant Fall 2025 Issue
• Faculty
• Asian American Studies
• Economics
• Students

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What Do They Think of Russia?

Â鶹ԭ´´ faculty receive Department of Defense grant to study how Russia's war against Ukraine has impacted public opinion in the Caucasus and Central Asia.

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• Sociology

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Introducing New Faculty in Humanities and STEM at Â鶹ԭ´´

New professors start teaching and current faculty receive promotions in 2024–25

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• Economics
• Media Studies
• Biology
• Africana Studies
• Philosophy
• Mathematics
• Chemistry
• Environmental Analysis

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Professor Ethan Van Arnam Awarded NIH Grant to Seek Disease-Fighting Molecules

Ethan Van Arnam and his lab have been awarded a three-year, $400,000+ R15 grant from the National Institute of Health’s (NIH) Institute of General Medical Sciences.

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• Chemistry

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• Department of Natural Sciences

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Professor Tessa Solomon-Lane Awarded CAREER Grant by National Science Foundation

Solomon-Lane’s CAREER grant, titled Early-Life Social Environments Drive Behavioral and Neural Mechanisms of Development, will fund a five-year research project beginning in May 2024.

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• Neuroscience
• Faculty

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• Department of Natural Sciences