Dean’s Award Winners 2024
Each year, the Dean of Students recognizes seniors who, through their involvement on and off campus, embody Oxy’s four pillars of Equity, Excellence, Community and Service.
Occidental College's four Dean's Award winners for 2024

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Kahane United Nations Program Welcomes New Director
Trainer and advocate Cynthia Rothschild leads the Kahane Oxy-at-the-U.N. Program, which is continuing in a remote format this fall.
Photo Project Builds Connections Between Patients, Doctors in Pandemic
Five years ago, Mary Beth Heffernan of Occidental’s art department flew to Liberia with a simple idea: Would portraits worn on the outside of their frightening personal protection...
Oxy Top Fulbright Producer for 15th Year
For the fifteenth consecutive year, Occidental College is one of the country’s top producers of student Fulbright Awards, according to the Chronicle of Higher Education’s annual...
Heffernan Work Featured in London Museum Exhibition
Five years ago during the West African Ebola epidemic, Occidental Professor Mary Beth Heffernan read first-person accounts from patients who were terrified by the anonymous head-to...
Craggs Wins IES Abroad Lifetime Achievement Award
Robin Craggs, Occidental College’s executive director of international programs , was presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award October 17 by IES Abroad, the non-profit academic...
International Workshop to Explore Global Challenges to Human Rights
Can new conceptions of human rights be part of a more effective response to a wave of global xenophobic nationalism?
New Program Makes Faculty and Students International Research Partners
The next chapter of Richter research at Occidental College allows students to engage closely with faculty as research partners and mentees during intensive international field...
Oxy Students, Alumni Win Eight Fulbrights
Seven graduating Occidental College seniors and one recent alumna will be headed abroad next year to teach and conduct research as winners of prestigious Fulbright scholarships.
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