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Oxy student TreShunda James, class of 2019
Oxy Awarded $1 Million NSF Grant To Address U.S. Shortage of STEM Graduates
A five-year, $1 million grant from the National Science Foundation will make it possible to build on the success of an Occidental College program addressing the national shortage...
Google cardboard VR headsets
Virtual Learning Heads to the Solar System for Physics Students
Students in Assistant Professor Sabrina Stierwalt ’s Physics 162 class are headed out of this world by way of virtual reality headsets this fall.
Prof. Adam Schoenberg teaches film scoring at Occidental.
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.
2020 Oxy Science Scholars Matt Aleksey, Gabe Gregory and Jackie Dall
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...
Jackie Dall '21
Jackie Dall ’21 Named Goldwater Scholar
Continuing a 30-year Occidental College tradition, Jackie Dall ’21 has been named a 2020 Goldwater Scholar. Dall is the 40 th Oxy student to win the country’s most prestigious...
Harry Elam Jr.
Harry J. Elam, Jr. of Stanford University Named Occidental College’s 16th President
Harry J. Elam, Jr., vice provost for undergraduate education at Stanford University, has been selected as the 16th president of Occidental College, the college’s board of trustees...
Oxy Arts on York
$1 Million Mellon Grant to Fund Oxy Arts Community-Based Arts Education Program
A five-year, $1 million grant from the Mellon Foundation will make it possible for Occidental College to widen its network of community partners in Northeast LA and expand its arts...
C Riley Snorton, guest lecturer
C. Riley Snorton Named 2020 Stafford Ellison Wright Black Alumni Scholar-in-Residence
University of Chicago cultural theorist C. Riley Snorton has been named Occidental College’s 2020 Stafford Ellison Wright Black Alumni Scholar-in-Residence.
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