Dean’s Award Winners 2025
Each year, the Dean of Students recognizes graduating seniors who, through their involvement on- and off-campus, embody Oxy’s four pillars of Equity, Excellence, Community and...
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Professor's Script Wins Competition
Associate professor and chair of the media arts and culture department Brody Fox’s feature screenplay One Degree has won the feature script category in the University Film & Video...
The Environmental Injustice of Beauty
Commentary calls for policies to protect women, especially women of color, from exposure to toxic chemicals in beauty products.
UEP Major Receives Award From Tenants Rights Group
Occidental College’s Robert Feign ‘19, an urban and environmental policy major from Chicago, recently received an Economic Justice Award from the Coalition for Economic Survival...
Presenters Impress at Summer Research Conference
For many pre-meds, organic chemistry is an anxiety-generating ordeal that can determine whether you are cut out to be a doctor. But it had the opposite effect on Matt Schmidt ’18:...
Alumni Nominated for Emmys
Recent alumnus and film editor Ryan Rambach '14 has been nominated for two 2017 Primetime Emmys
Oxy Tops for Economic Diversity
For the third consecutive year, the New York Times has ranked Occidental College as one of the country’s most economically diverse colleges, based on enrollments of lower- and...
Black Girls Seen as Less Innocent, Study Says
American adults view young Black girls as less innocent and more adult-like than their white peers, a perception that could lead to disproportionate rates of punitive treatment in...
Noffke '17 Selected for Prestigious Public Policy Fellowship
Aaron Noffke '17 has been named one of 10 Millennial Public Policy Fellows—picked from among 500 applicants—by New America, the Washington, D.C.-based think tank.
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