<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/faculty-research/back-oxford-passion-research.html" dsn="news"><pubDate>05/11/2022</pubDate><title>Back to Oxford with a Passion for Research</title><excerpt>Lexy Gillette ’22 had planned to attend a large research university after graduating from high school in Bend, Oregon. But she discovered an old, dusty Westmont piggy bank in her room that her uncle, Marcus Gillette ’05, had given her and decided to visit the college. “I got out of the car and something felt right, and I absolutely loved it,” she says.</excerpt><author>Scott Craig</author><image>
            
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