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 Professor Instrumental in Protecting Calif. Bird
The genomic research of Occidental College biology professor and bird expert John E. McCormack has carried the day in determining that the coastal California gnatcatcher will...
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Pacific Opera to Showcase 'Rake's Progress' at Occidental
Northeast L.A.’s Pacific Opera Project (POP) will stage a rare production of Igor Stravinsky's opera The Rake's Progress in Thorne Hall on the Occidental College campus on Saturday...
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Oxy Soccer, Football Head to Hawai'i
When the Occidental College Tigers travel to Hawai’i for a Sept. 17 football game against Oregon’s Pacific University, they will play what is believed to be the first game ever...
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Professors Honored at Convocation
To the rhythmic thumps of taiko drummers, 508 members of the Class of 2020 trooped into Thorne Hall on August 30 for Occidental’s 129th Convocation ceremony, a tradition that...
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2016 Hall of Fame Class Announced
An Olympic synchronized swimmer, a dominant pitcher and a national championship track and field team will be inducted into the Occidental Athletics Hall of Fame on Friday, October...
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Summer Scholars Present Their Work
More than 100 vacation-averse Occidental students spent 10 weeks this summer fishing for anchovies off the California coast and feeding rats chocolate chips as part of Oxy’s...
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Deena Selenow Named Oxy Arts Director
Deena Selenow, an acclaimed director for live performance and interdisciplinary arts curator, has been named Occidental College’s new director of Oxy Arts, the College’s campus...
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Interim Dean Takes the Reins
Interim Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of the College Kerry Thompson is nothing if not hands-on. When he noticed Western bluebirds nesting in the Bell Field dugout...
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