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In the last nine years, the Chemistry and Biochemistry Departments have had nine NSF Fellowship winners, three Rhodes Scholars, and numerous NSF honorable mentions.

The College currently graduates 15-20 chemistry and biochemistry majors a year. Between 1988 and 1992, Occidental College graduated more chemistry and biochemistry majors than Caltech, U.C. Riverside, USC, Stanford, Washington State, and over half of the California State Universities (according to the American Chemical Society Committee on Professional Training).

According to data supplied by the Council on Undergraduate Research's "Research in Chemistry at Undergraduate Institutions," 5th Edition, Occidental College ranked first among 335 independent schools in the number of undergraduates involved in summer research in the 1988-91 period. We averaged 38 students over the four years.

In the last eleven years, 246 presentations involving Occidental chemistry student authors or coauthors have been delivered at international, national, regional and local American Chemical Society meetings in addition to Southern California Undergraduate Reseach Conferences. In the past ten years, Occidental undergraduates in chemistry have presented nearly one-fifth of all papers submitted at annual Southern California Undergraduate Research Conferences, more than any other college or university.