Trevor Osaki, a graduate of Cypress High School (‘13), has been named a Research Fellow by the Department of Economics and Undergraduate Research Center (URC) at Occidental College.
The topic of Osaki’s research will be to study the impact of federal financial aid on the tuition structure of public universities and how it has impacted the access to higher education of the groups that federal financial aid is intended to help. His research will be conducted throughout this summer and Dr. Robert Moore, Professor of Economics at Occidental College, will serve as Osaki’s research advisor. Osaki’s research proposal was reviewed and accepted by a faculty committee on behalf of the Occidental College URC and his research is being funded by a grant from the Ford Foundation.
Trevor Osaki is a junior at Occidental College, majoring in economics and with a minor in mathematics. He is also a teaching assistant in the college’s Academic Master’s Program.