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Summer 2020 at Oxy
In the midst of the global pandemic, summer at Oxy looks very different than it has in the past. Yet research, teaching, learning, the arts and community partnerships still...
Hong Featured in PBS Docuseries “Asian Americans”
For Occidental College Associate Professor of History Jane Hong , the lightbulb went on when she realized that the history she was studying as a Yale undergraduate had a direct...
2020 Student Leadership Awards Honor Exemplary Undergraduates
Despite the social distancing guidelines that prevented the annual in-person celebration, students, staff and faculty marked the occasion of the Student Leadership Awards on April...
Billboard Names Oxy One of Top Music Programs—Again
For the second consecutive year, Occidental College’s Music Department has been named as one of the country’s top music business programs by Billboard magazine.
Joshua Medina ’19 Awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
Joshua Medina ’19, whose chance encounters at Occidental with Greek statuary videos and a dog named Fred led to a new 3-D technique for documenting the colors of bird plumage, has...
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...
2020-21 Science Scholars Named
Three Occidental College students collaborating with faculty in the fields of geology and physics have been named 2020-21 Science Scholars and presented with research grants funded...
Digital Divide Impacts COVID-19 Stay-at-Home Compliance, New Study Finds
Regions with low-income populations and low Internet penetration are less likely to follow safe-at-home orders and are thus more vulnerable to the COVID-19 coronavirus, a new study...
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