← LeaderboardsInvestigatorsiAttributed = a PI's even-split share of each grant — a $1M grant with 2 PIs counts $500K each.
Occidental College
Los Angeles, CA
$25,203,387
Total funding
98
Grants
Funding over time
peak $3.2M · FY2005–25$5M$3.8M$2.5M$1.3M$0
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Funding mix
By agency
NSF$20,513,292 · 82
NIH$3,466,271 · 9
DOE$434,999 · 2
USDA$399,053 · 1
DOD$322,846 · 3
CDC$66,926 · 1
By mechanism
—$21,670,190 · 88
R15$2,399,493 · 7
R25$942,748 · 1
R03$124,030 · 1
U58$66,926 · 1
Investigators at Occidental College
InvestigatorsiAttributed = a PI's even-split share of each grant — a $1M grant with 2 PIs counts $500K each.
Exposure= the full size of every grant they're on ($1M each).
Rising Stars
First grant in the last 5 yrs
Emerging Leaders
6–10 yrs in
Largest grants
Center for Undergraduate Research in Mathematics$1,387,600
· FY2017 · MPS
Creating Opportunities for High-achieving Students in Science and Mathematics through Scholarships, Research Experiences, Leadership, and Community$1,000,000
· FY2020 · EDU
Center for Undergraduate Research in Mathematics$919,213
· FY2023 · MPS
Collaborative Research: DRIFT-III: Engineering for A Large Directional Dark Matter Detector$908,000
· FY2011 · MPS
CAREER: Integrating undergraduate research, citizen science, and museum genomics to explore a century of change in North American birds$829,131
· FY2017 · BIO
OxyMS Teaching Scholars$739,398
· FY2009 · EDU
COSMOS: Creating Opportunities in Science and Mathematics for Occidental Students$726,791
· FY2015 · EDU
Equipment: MRI: Track 1 An interdisciplinary approach to high-resolution sea and lake-floor mapping through acquisition of an R2Sonic 2024 multibeam sonar$539,140
· FY2024 · GEO
RUI: DRIFT-II: R&D and Operations for Dark Matter Detection$526,061
· FY2006 · MPS
RUI: STS: Race, Immigration, and the Public Understanding of Science$515,329
· FY2020 · SBE
MRI: Acquisition of a High-Performance Computing Cluster for Occidental College$493,878
· FY2019 · CSE
RUI: The DRIFT Directional Search for Dark Matter with Spin-Dependent Couplings$475,000
· FY2009 · MPS
CAREER: Investigating the Causes and Consequences of Conceptual Change$470,752
· FY2010 · EDU
RUI: Surface and Analytical Chemistry to Elucidate Fundamental Biofilm Properties and Mechanisms of Biofilm Control$430,500
· FY2009 · MPS
Photocatalyzed and Enantioselective Umpolung C-C Bond Forming Reactions of Carbonyls$409,456
R15 · FY2024 · GM
RUI: DRIFT-II - Next Generation Dark Matter Search Using a Negative Ion TPC$405,000
· FY2003 · MPS
THE LOS ANGELES URBAN AGRICULTURE INTERNSHIP PROGRAM WILL INTRODUCE UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS AT OCCIDENTAL COLLEGE TO URBAN AGRICULTURE OPERATIONS IN THE LOS ANGELES (LA) REGION THROUGH AN EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING INTERNSHIP PROGRAM THAT IS ENHANCED BY CLASSROOM INSTRUCTION AND PROFESSIONAL SKILLS DEVELOPMENT.OVER THE LAST CENTURY, LOS ANGELES WENT FROM BEING ONE OF THE MOST PRODUCTIVE AGRICULTURAL REGIONS IN THE COUNTRY TO ONE OF THE MOST URBAN. A STEADY RISE IN THE AVERAGE AGE OF FARMERS OVER THE LAST DECADES HAS ALSO BEEN PARALLELED BY A PROJECTED SHORTFALL IN QUALIFIED GRADUATES IN THE AGRICULTURAL AND FOOD PRODUCTION SECTORS. DESPITE THIS DRAMATIC SHIFT IN LA'S LANDSCAPE, AND A LACK OF YOUNG FARMERS READY TO TAKE THE PLACE OF THOSE RETIRING, SOME TIES TO THE REGION'S ROBUST AGRICULTURAL PAST STILL ENDURE, AND THERE IS NOW A BURGEONING URBAN AGRICULTURE MOVEMENT IN THE LA REGION.THE LA URBAN AGRICULTURE INTERNSHIP PROGRAM IS DESIGNED TO PREPARE OCCIDENTAL COLLEGE STUDENTS FOR CAREERS AND/OR GRADUATE STUDIES IN AGRICULTURE OR RELATED FIELDS, ADVANCING THE 2018 FARM BILL PRIORITIES IN THE LA REGION. EACH YEAR OF THE PROGRAM, 6-7 OCCIDENTAL STUDENTS WILL BE SELECTED THROUGH A COMPETITIVE APPLICATION PROCESS, WITH PRIORITY PLACED ON UNDERREPRESENTED STUDENTS. ACCEPTED STUDENTS WILL LEARN ABOUT THE BASICS OF URBAN AGRICULTURE PRODUCTION AND BUSINESS MODELS THROUGH A 2-WEEK INTENSIVE URBAN AGRICULTURE ORIENTATION COURSE. FOLLOWING THE COURSE, STUDENTS WILL GET HANDS-ON WORKPLACE EXPERIENCE AT LOCAL URBAN AGRICULTURE OPERATIONS THROUGH AN 8-WEEK INTERNSHIP, DURING WHICH TIME OCCIDENTAL FACULTY MENTORS WILL PROVIDE ONGOING GUIDANCE. STUDENTS WILL COMPLETE THE PROGRAM BY PRESENTING ON THEIR EXPERIENCES AT OCCIDENTAL'S UNDERGRADUATE SUMMER RESEARCH PRESENTATION CONFERENCE, A MULTIDISCIPLINARY CAMPUS EVENT FEATURING UPWARDS OF 70 STUDENTS IN A PROFESSIONAL CONFERENCE FORMAT. THE PROGRAM WILL BE ADMINISTERED BY OCCIDENTAL'S URBAN & ENVIRONMENTAL POLICYINSTITUTE, AN APPLIED RESEARCH AND ADVOCACY CENTER WITH A 20-YEAR HISTORY OF LOCAL FOOD SYSTEMS RESEARCH AND PROGRAMMING.$399,053
· FY2020 · National Institute of Food and Agriculture
Macrophage Second-line Responses to Group A Streptoccocus Infection$397,931
R15 · FY2024 · AI
Quantitative AFM Investigations of Adhesion of a Planktonic Bacterial Predator to Biofilm Prey$391,433
R15 · FY2016 · GM
RUI: CSBR: Natural History: Securing and digitizing an extensive spatio-temporal collection of southern California's marine biodiversity$388,700
· FY2018 · BIO