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In the Media

CNBC features �鶹ԭ�� graduates Mere Abrams ’10 and Anna Graham ’10 in “How these friends created a functional undergarment brand for trans, nonbinary and gender nonconforming people”

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• Alumni

In the Media

�鶹ԭ�� Lacrosse Stars—and Twin Sisters—Lily and Thyra Herrmann Earn Awards for Community Building and Character

�鶹ԭ�� graduates and lacrosse teammates — twin sisters Lily Herrmann ’21 and Thyra Herrmann ’21 — each earned major awards for community building and character. Lily received the IWLCA Community Awareness Award; Thyra was honored with the 2021 SCIAC Women’s Lacrosse Character Award. The awards recognize their strong dedication to athletics, leadership, social responsibility, and community engagement.

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• Athletics
• Awards

Research

Professor José Z. Calderón Co-authors Paper on Intersectional Solidarity

�鶹ԭ�� Professor Emeritus of Sociology and Chicano/a-Latino/a Studies José Z. Calderón recently co-authored an article that explores how movements predominately focused on one issue can coalesce across causes. The article, “Intersectional Organizing and Educational Justice Movements: Strategies for Cross-Movement Solidarities,” appeared in a special spring 2021 issue of The Assembly: A Journal for Public Scholarship on Education, published by the University of Colorado at Boulder’s School of Education.

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• Faculty

In the Media

Associate Professor Suyapa Portillo ’96 featured on KPFA’s “Rising Up with Sonali” radio show about the Biden Administration’s recent stance on immigration at the southern border.

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• Faculty
• Politics

In the Media

�鶹ԭ�� named one of the 10 most welcoming colleges by College Magazine

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• Education

In the Media

Associate Professor of Chicano/a-Latino/a Transnational Studies Suyapa Portillo Villeda pens op-ed about root cause of Central American migration

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• Faculty

Organization

• Chicanx/Latinx Student Affairs

�鶹ԭ�� Achievements

�鶹ԭ�� Adopts Test-Blind Admission Policy

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• Students
• Education

Faculty Achievements

Bird Pairs Practice Mind-Control to Create Dovetailing Duets

Professor Melissa Coleman explores the neuroscience behind coordinated birdsong

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• Faculty
• Neuroscience
• Science

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• Department of Natural Sciences

Alumni Achievements

Short Stories from a Long Life

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Alumni Achievements

Devon Hartman ’77 Plans to (Solar) Power the Economy

�鶹ԭ�� alumnus Devon Hartman ’77 has launched CHERP Solar Works, the world’s first nonprofit solar panel assembly factory, based in Pomona, CA. The project aims to create hundreds of living-wage jobs, provide free solar power to low-income families, and rebuild U.S. solar manufacturing through a national network of community-based micro-factories. Founded by Hartman’s nonprofit CHERP Inc., this initiative unites climate action and economic opportunity, reflecting the lifelong values of activism and sustainability that began at �鶹ԭ��.

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• Environmental Sustainability
• Technology