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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The Art of Creative Survival
Historian Daniel Widener, whose latest book documents the social and political significance of Black arts in post-World War II Los Angeles, spent three days on the Occidental...
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Teaching Matters
Two of Oxy’s top teaching prizes have been awarded to three faculty members selected by their peers and by students for their outstanding work in the classroom, in conducting...
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Bent Makes Triumphant Return
When the Flying Karamazov Brothers took the Thorne stage at Oxy on Friday, September 14, it was a personal homecoming for Stephen Bent ’09, who performs with the juggling troupe...
Kozol to Speak Sept. 10
Award-winning author, teacher, and social critic Jonathan Kozol will speak about his new book Fire in the Ashes at 11:45 a.m. on Monday, September 10 in Oxy’s Thorne Hall.
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An Unconventional Education
This fall, 33 Oxy students are learning in a classroom that stretches from Honolulu to Boston as they work full time for presidential and Senate candidates from both sides of the...
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"Best college on this planet"
Famed Caltech chemist Harry Gray proclaimed Occidental "the best college on this planet" in his speech to the Oxy Class of 2016 at Convocation, the August 29 ceremony marking the...
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A New Beginning
The first chapter of Kate Frawley’s Oxy story began early Saturday morning in Room 102 of Newcomb Hall.
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Curiouser and Curiouser
When Jason Heidecker ’04 talks about NASA’s Curiosity spacecraft, which he helped build for its current mission on Mars, he sounds like a kid boasting about a favorite toy.
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