Undergraduate Academics

Edem Wordi ’27 Applies Soka Values to Antibody Research at Novartis

atice — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 00:50:16 +0000

Nov 14, 2025

Edem Wordi ’27 Applies Soka Values to Antibody Research at Novartis

Growing up in Ghana, Edem Wordi ’27 learned early on how perseverance and compassion go hand in hand. He remembers watching his mother run a small business while raising him and his siblings and

Recognizing SUA's 2024 Scholarship Award Recipients

atice — Wed, 25 Sep 2024 16:10:03 +0000

Sep 25, 2024

Recognizing SUA's 2024 Scholarship Award Recipients

The recipients of ��Ů of America’s top academic honors—the Ikeda Scholarship, the John D. Montgomery Scholarship, the Soka Merit Award, and the Academic Excellence Award—met with President

New Video Series Demystifies the Liberal Arts

atice — Fri, 02 Feb 2024 19:31:04 +0000

Feb 02, 2024

New Video Series Demystifies the Liberal Arts

The new “Concentrations” video series highlights students from each of Soka’s five concentrations: Environmental Studies, Humanities, Life Sciences, International Studies, and Social and Behavioral

Impactathon Offers Inspiration and Real-World Lessons for Soka Students

atice — Wed, 29 Nov 2023 21:18:28 +0000

Nov 29, 2023

Impactathon Offers Inspiration and Real-World Lessons for Soka Students

More than 30 Soka students in this year’s Impactathon began the business pitch competition with ice breakers, including a prompt to brainstorm what they could create with candy and plastic toys. Then

Recognizing Our 2023 Scholarship Award Recipients

mbeck — Tue, 28 Nov 2023 22:28:11 +0000

Nov 28, 2023

Recognizing Our 2023 Scholarship Award Recipients

The recipients of ��Ů of America’s top academic honors—the Ikeda Scholarship, the John D. Montgomery Scholarship, the Soka Merit Award, and the Academic Excellence Award—met with President

Hands-on Medical Experiences Prepare Soka Students for the Future

atice — Fri, 27 Oct 2023 22:46:50 +0000

Oct 30, 2023

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Yinka Aduloju ’24 and Zachary Holt ’25 review imaging during their neurosurgery preceptorship in Summer 2023.

Hands-on Medical Experiences Prepare Soka Students for the Future

For several weeks last summer, Zachary Holt ’25 and Yinka Aduloju ’24 woke up as early as 4 a.m. to start their days shadowing neurosurgery cases and conducting neurosurgery research at medical

M. Robert Hamersley Is Named Dean of Faculty

atice — Wed, 07 Jun 2023 18:42:23 +0000

Jun 07, 2023

M. Robert Hamersley Is Named Dean of Faculty

M. Robert Hamersley, professor of environmental biogeochemistry, has been named ��Ů of America’s dean of faculty. His appointment, announced by Michael Weiner, executive vice president for

Q&A With National Science Foundation Grant Winner Prof. Robert Levenson

atice — Wed, 26 Apr 2023 17:49:29 +0000

Apr 26, 2023

Q&A With National Science Foundation Grant Winner Prof. Robert Levenson

The National Science Foundation recently announced it will award Soka faculty member Robert Levenson, assistant professor of biochemistry, $292,310 to support his research on “BRC-BIO: Harnessing

Learning Clusters Explore Issues Both Timely and Timeless

atice — Thu, 30 Mar 2023 22:42:37 +0000

Mar 30, 2023

Learning Clusters Explore Issues Both Timely and Timeless

The annual Learning Cluster at SUA allows faculty and groups of 12 or fewer students to co-design monthlong courses around a problem or question of interest and immerse themselves in exploring

Being Soka: An Interview with Professor Emerita Gail Thomas

atice — Tue, 28 Mar 2023 22:53:54 +0000

Mar 28, 2023

Being Soka: An Interview with Professor Emerita Gail Thomas

In the 1990s, Gail Thomas took a leap of faith and left her tenured position at Texas A&M University to become a founding faculty member of ��Ů of America. Now professor emerita of