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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Coro Fellows Set Record
Three Occidental College seniors and one recent alumna have been named Coro Fellows -- the largest number of Oxy participants in the national public affairs leadership training...
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Senate Confirms Mitchell
Former Occidental College President Ted Mitchell was confirmed by the U.S. Senate today as under secretary of education, the Education Department's top higher education official.
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Last-Minute Success Story
Ryan Metzler ’14 was wrapping up work on his senior comps in March and looking for film festivals where he could enter his documentary when he discovered that the deadline for the...
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Kahanes Endow U.N. Program
A $5.5 million pledge from Elizabeth and Bill Kahane ’70 of New York will endow Occidental College’s United Nations program, which each year gives up to 16 undergraduates the...
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McKinnon Center Dedicated
Occidental College dedicated its new McKinnon Center for Global Affairs April 26 with dozens of students demonstrating how global awareness informs their work – many of them using...
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Diller to Speak at Commencement
New York architect Elizabeth Diller, whose firm Diller Scofidio + Renfro transformed a derelict elevated railway into the High Line park and designed the new Broad Art Museum in...
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Deborah Martinson 1946-2014
Deborah Martinson, Occidental College professor of writing and rhetoric and director of writing programs, died of cancer at her Burbank home on Saturday, April 26. She was 67.
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A Garden for Dr. O
Dr. O’s Garden – a permanent campus tribute to a beloved Oxy professor who died two years ago after a courageous battle with cancer – was formally dedicated on April 18 with a...
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