<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/pre-go-live-resources/_migration/2026-07-21/magazine/spring-2021/cultured-chemist.html" dsn="news"><pubDate/><title>A Cultured Chemist</title><excerpt>Alison Noble ’97 never intended to follow her brother, Chris Noble ’94, to Westmont. But when she learned about opportunities to conduct chemistry research with professors, she got excited. “I realized Westmont would be a good fit for me,” she says. She spent a summer working in the lab with Professor</excerpt><author/><image>
            
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