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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NSF Grant to Fund High-Performance Computing Cluster for Faculty and Student Research
A three-year, $494,000 grant from the National Science Foundation will fund a high-performance computing cluster that will dramatically increase the research and teaching...
Occidental Receives National Recognition for Student Research
Occidental College has been awarded the Council on Undergraduate Research’s 2019 Campus-Wide Award for Undergraduate Research Accomplishments (AURA) for its exemplary program that...
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...
College Guides Rank Occidental Among Top U.S. Schools
This year’s results are in: Occidental College is once again one of the top-ranked liberal arts colleges in the country.
Oxy Faculty Honored at 2019 Convocation
Four Occidental College professors were honored for exceptional teaching, scholarship and service August 27 as the Class of 2023 was formally welcomed to the Oxy community at the...
Oxy Celebrates 20th Anniversary of Summer Undergraduate Research
More than 100 Occidental students spent 10 weeks on campus this summer, participating in funded, full-time research alongside faculty mentors through the annual Summer Research...
Occidental Launches $225 Million Comprehensive Campaign
Occidental College launched the public phase of the Oxy Campaign For Good , a comprehensive effort to raise $225 million to strengthen its financial aid endowment and academic and...
Geologist Margi Rusmore Named First Gibby Professor of Science
Geology Professor Margi Rusmore, an internationally known scholar in structural geology and tectonics, has been named the inaugural Michael G. Gibby ’68 and Barbara J. Gibby ’68...
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