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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Oxy Arts' Selenow Directs The Bumps Feb. 3-4
Deena Selenow, director of Oxy Arts, will be in residence at Los Angeles’ Skirball Cultural Center January 30-February 4, directing The Bumps as part of The Skirball’s inaugural...
Oxy Food Justice Programs Receive $1.5 Million in Grants
Three recent grants totaling $1.5 million will make it possible for Occidental College’s Urban & Environmental Policy Institute to expand regional food justice projects that over...
Professor's Book Receives Enthusiastic Response
Associate professor of sociology Lisa Wade’s new book, American Hookup: The New Culture of Sex on Campus (Norton, $27) is the No. 1 new release in Gender Studies, College and...
Rev. Dr. William Barber to Speak at Occidental Feb. 1
Fifty years after the Rev. Martin Luther King spoke from the same podium, North Carolina NAACP leader and activist Rev. Dr. William Barber will speak on "Revival, Resilience...
Union College's Sternberg Named Dean of College
After a national search, Wendy Sternberg, dean of academic departments and programs at Union College (N.Y.), has been named Occidental College’s new vice president for academic...
Recent Oxy Alum Receives Award for Discovering Novel Anticoagulant
Recent Occidental graduate William Reeves ’16 was honored by the American Society of Hematology for his abstract about a novel blood anticoagulant that he, his student colleagues...
Glee Club to Tour Northwest January 13-19
The Occidental College Glee Club will tour the Pacific Northwest January 13-19, performing its wide-ranging repertoire of classical and contemporary choral music in Eugene...
Dreier Honored with 2016 City of Justice Award
Occidental College’s Peter Dreier was recognized as a 2016 City of Justice Awards honoree Dec. 8 for his work to advance social justice by the Los Angeles Alliance for a New...
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