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Student Media Arts & Culture

Media Arts & Culture (MAC) major Qingxi Yang ’28 bridges classroom learning with community engagement, collaboration, and public art in Los Angeles through ��鱨վ’s Education in Action program.

Student Geology

Mira Hart ’26 pursued her passion for climate research through international fieldwork in the Philippines—crawling through caves, collecting stalagmites, and uncovering ancient data that could help predict Earth’s future.

Student Economics

As co-president of the Law Society, Raymond Arias ’26 has spent his college years reimagining what a pre-law club can look like at a small liberal arts college, ensuring it is not only a space for professional development, but also one rooted in connection, access, and shared growth.

Faculty Computer Science

Joel Walsh's research explores the intersection of educational technology, artificial intelligence, and natural language processing.

Faculty Computer Science

Meiqing Zhang’s research draws on computational methods, including machine learning and natural language processing, to study media and politics.

Vanessa Yingling

Vanessa R. Yingling

Faculty Kinesiology

Vanessa R. Yingling is a biomechanist, educator, and researcher focused on bone strength development and health, with a particular interest in translating her research into programs or information to benefit the public.

Tiffany Wheatland-Disu heashot with beige blazer

Tiffany Wheatland-Disu

Faculty Black Studies

Tiffany Wheatland-Disu’s research and scholarship bridge the histories of decolonization, Black radicalism, and Black political thought.

Madeline Wander

Faculty Urban & Environmental Policy

Madeline Wander ’08 is a scholar of transportation and racial-spatial inequality, and her commitment to social justice and experience as a community organizer drives her research and teaching.

Summer Sloane-Britt

Faculty Art & Art History

Summer Sloane-Britt researches the global history of photography, particularly the intersection of photography and liberation movements.

Alyssa Rodriguez

Faculty Biology

Alyssa Rodriguez examines the molecular mechanisms underlying human disease including chemotherapy resistance. She studies proteins involved with DNA repair and genome stability.

Dustin Madison

Dustin “Dusty” Madison

Faculty Physics

Dustin “Dusty” Madison is an astrophysicist working on new and creative ways to study the gravitational Universe. He studies gravitational waves—tiny ripples in the fabric of space that can teach people about some of the most extreme systems in the universe, like black holes orbiting each other.

Faculty Critical Theory & Social Justice

Carla Macal studies the intersections between state violence and intergenerational healing.