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Workshop Wednesdays: Finding Home Away from Home: Navigating Homesickness

Join us at the Disability Services and Student Support Lounge for a welcoming, low-pressure conversation about navigating homesickness and adjusting to campus life. Connect with other students, explore practical coping strategies, and create a personalized “home away from home” plan featuring supportive routines, campus resources, and ways to stay connected with the people and traditions that matter to you. Complimentary snacks will be provided, and all students are welcome!

Workshop Wednesdays: Effective Note-Taking Strategies

Join us at the Disability Services and Student Support Lounge for a relaxed, interactive workshop where you can explore different note-taking methods and find the approach that works best for you. Bring your notebook, laptop, tablet, or class notes to practice organizing information, identifying key concepts, and creating useful study materials. Enjoy complimentary snacks, try out new strategies, and leave with practical tools you can use in your classes right away. 

All students are welcome!

Workshop Wednesdays: Communicating with Professors and Using Office Hours

Join us at the Disability Services and Student Support Lounge for a relaxed, interactive session that will help you feel more confident connecting with your professors. Practice writing professional emails, preparing for office hours, and asking effective questions through helpful examples and real-life scenarios. Bring a draft email or course-related question if you have one, enjoy complimentary snacks, and leave with practical tools you can use right away. 

All students are welcome!

Workshop Wednesdays: Time Management and Building a Weekly Schedule

Join us at the Disability Services and Student Support Lounge for a relaxed, interactive session focused on making your week feel more manageable. Bring your planner, paper or digital, and we’ll help you map out classes, study time, work, self-care, and other commitments while sharing practical time-management tips. Enjoy complimentary snacks, connect with other students, and leave with a personalized weekly schedule you can start using right away. 

All students are welcome!

Workshop Wednesdays: Breaking Down the Syllabus and Setting Academic Goals

Join us at the Disability Services and Student Support Lounge for a relaxed, interactive session designed to help you get organized for the semester. Bring your course syllabi, printed or digital, and we’ll work together to identify key deadlines, map out important assignments, and set achievable goals. Bring your laptop, planner, or favorite note-taking tools, and enjoy complimentary snacks while creating a personalized semester success plan. 

All students are welcome!

New Harmonies: Leveraging Motion Capture Technology for Visual Learning

Professors Hector Camarillo Abad (computer science) and Shengyun Gu (cognitive science), together with student researchers Evelin Benitez ‘28, Stella Skrobe ‘27, and Kiera Ashcraft ‘27, welcome all members of Oxy to this event.

You will be immersed in the planet of Eyeth (word credit to the Deaf community), where visual-manual communication such as sign languages and gestures are the norm. Join us and experience how wearable motion capture technology is used and can be harnessed to better understand our minds and brains.

HJC Spring Showcase 2023

The annual Humanities for Just Communities Spring Showcase highlights and celebrates the
social justice projects of fall semester HJC students.


Location: Academic Commons
Event Date: Thursday, March 2, 4:30-6:30 pm and Friday, March 3, 4:30-6:30 pm
This two-day showcase is open to the entire Oxy community and this year will focus on the
2022-23 HJC theme of health justice.

The event will feature exhibits, performances,
presentations, and poster sessions from students in:

HJC Spring Showcase 2023

The annual Humanities for Just Communities Spring Showcase highlights and celebrates the
social justice projects of fall semester HJC students.


Location: Academic Commons
Event Date: Thursday, March 2, 4:30-6:30 pm and Friday, March 3, 4:30-6:30 pm
This two-day showcase is open to the entire Oxy community and this year will focus on the
2022-23 HJC theme of health justice.

The event will feature exhibits, performances,
presentations, and poster sessions from students in:

Computer Science Senior Project Presentations and Showcase

Allie Brenner: Comfort Level and Short-Term Success in Computer Science

William Chen: Feature-Based Sentiment Analysis

Leo Connelly: Addressing Barriers to Entry Surrounding Electronic Medical Records 

Charlotte Cullip: Training Convolutional Neural Networks to Classify Knitted Stitches

Sasha Eberhardt: Bayesian Network Games with Intentions 

Luis Figueroa: Part-of-Speech Tagger for Non-Natural Language in Bug Reports

Dan Gittelman-Egan: iVoting in Estonia: The Democratic Considerations and Security Implications of Digital Governance