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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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Geography Lesson
The Class of 2018 displays Occidental’s student body’s usual eclecticism, but with a new global twist—among the first-years is the highest number of international students in the...
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President Greets Class of '18
A total of 547 members of the Class of 2018 trooped into Thorne Hall to the thump of taiko drums August 27 for Occidental’s 128th Convocation ceremony, a tradition that formally...
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Six More Years
The Occidental College Board of Trustees has unanimously voted to extend President Jonathan Veitch's contract through 2020.
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Nine Join Oxy Faculty
Nine new tenure-track professors with fascinating backgrounds and eclectic interests will be joining the Occidental faculty this fall.
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Summer Scholarship
More than 100 Occidental students skipped the family camping trips and lounging by the pool to spend 10 weeks of their summer vacation doing research with faculty mentors on campus...
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Making Scents of Color
Would a rose smell as sweet if it were blue? Perhaps not, according to a new study by Occidental College’s Carmel A. Levitan, assistant professor of cognitive science.
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The Emperor's New Clothes Encounters
The critically acclaimed Occidental Children’s Theater will celebrate its 19th year with a brand new story, The Emperor's New Clothes Encounters of the Third Kind, and three...
Feathering Our Nest
Occidental College’s Moore Laboratory for Zoology has received a National Science Foundation grant of $400,000.
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