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...
Eight stacked headshots of Occidental College graduating seniors

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"Practicing" Medicine
For the second year in a row, 10 Oxy pre-meds spent the last two weeks of their winter break "shadowing" doctors at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles to get a better sense of what...
Kondracke on Kemp
Journalist, political commentator, and Kemp biographer Morton Kondracke will speak on "Jack Kemp and the Future of the Republican Party" on Monday, February 11 as Occidental...
Mirin Fader's Hoop Dreams Take Shape
The NBA’s Blake Griffin has a mean slam dunk. Chris Paul’s side hop is nearly unstoppable. What does Mirin Fader ‘13 bring to the court? Great storytelling skills and a love of the...
Was Jesus Married?
Harvard's Karen L. King will return to Occidental, where she began her academic career, to give a February 7 talk about her recent discovery of a fragment of Egyptian papyrus in...
Shankar, Rao Memorial to Be Held January 26
Occidental College will host a memorial for sitar virtuoso Ravi Shankar and his pupil Harihar Rao on Saturday, January 26 at 2 p.m. in Thorne Hall -- scene of performances by some...
Singing Through Arizona
The Occidental College Glee Club will bring its signature blend of classical and contemporary masterpieces on its January 13-18 tour of Arizona.
Honoring MLK's Legacy
As they do every year, hundreds of Occidental students, faculty, alumni and staff will fan out to dozens of locations across Los Angeles on Saturday, Jan. 26 to honor the legacy of...
Oxy on Parade
Oxy has long played a small but sturdy role in Pasadena’s fabled New Year’s Day Rose Parade, including its own float entries and the hundreds of alumni (including three Tournament...
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