Professor John McCormack Named AAAS Fellow
Professor of Biology John McCormack, director and curator of Occidental College’s Moore Lab of Zoology, has been selected as a 2023 American Association for the Advancement of...
Portrait of John McCormack in the Moore Lab of Zoology

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InternLA 2018 Roundup
Each summer, Oxy students actively develop their professional skills by participating in InternLA , one of Occidental’s signature internship programs.
Grant Funds New Research on K-12 Restorative Justice Programs
A new grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to researchers at Occidental College and Georgetown University Law Center will fund a pioneering study of the social and...
Oxy Holds 19th Undergraduate Research Conference
More than 130 Occidental students skipped the family road trips to spend 10 weeks this summer counting starfish and examining bacteria inside beetles as part of the College’s...
'Recaptured Africans' Named Finalist for Douglass Prize
An Occidental College history professor’s 2017 book exploring the little-known story of Africans who found themselves in the United States after being seized from illegal slave...
Children's Theater Presents 'Doctor Scooby-Doolittle'
The critically acclaimed Occidental Children's Theater will celebrate its ​23rd year with an original story, Doctor Scooby-Doolittle, plus three adventurous adaptations of...
Occidental Hosts Gilder-Lehrman K-12 Teacher Workshop
Occidental College is hosting almost three dozen public school teachers from across California this week for an intensive one-week Gilder-Lehrman Institute of American History...
Oxy Alumna Named LA Unified Teacher of the Year
Jennifer Tróchez MacLean ’91 has been named one of Los Angeles Unified School District’s 2017-18 Teachers of the Year, recognized for her strong commitment to her students, school...
5 Students Awarded Richter Research Abroad Grants
Samantha Herdman ’19, a biology major from Mill Valley, is studying mockingbirds in the Galapagos Islands. Atnasia Mekonnen ’21, an undeclared major from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, is...
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