Professor John McCormack Named AAAS Fellow
Professor of Biology John McCormack, director and curator of Occidental College’s Moore Lab of Zoology, has been selected as a 2023 American Association for the Advancement of...
Portrait of John McCormack in the Moore Lab of Zoology

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125th Brings Out the Best
From Oprah Winfrey’s investment manager to a pioneer in the fight against multiple sclerosis, it’s an impressive group.
Food Historian Adds Modern Cuisine to Her Repertoire
Aralyn Beaumont ’14 has dedicated much of her undergraduate career to studying food she may never get to eat and rituals she may never experience. This semester she’s switching...
Climbing Billboard's Power 100
What can you do with a liberal arts degree? End up on Billboard 's new Power 100 list of movers and shakers in the music industry.
A Model for Both Parties
Jack Kemp ’57 is a model not just for Republicans trying to find their way out of the political wilderness, but for politicians on both sides of the aisle, political analyst Morton...
Confessions of a Climate Change Convert
Richard A. Muller, a MacArthur "genius" grant-winning physics professor at UC Berkeley, will speak at Occidental on March 4 on "A Converted Skeptic: Climate Change, Its Human...
For the Birds
Not all birds of a feather flock together –- at least not on the avian genetic tree, according to groundbreaking new research by John McCormack, director/curator of the Moore...
High Stakes Marriage
Harvard's Karen L. King returned 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 which...
Delbanco to Speak at Commencement
Scholar and social critic Andrew H. Delbanco, author of the widely praised new book, College: What It Was, Is, and Should Be , will deliver the Commencement address at Occidental...
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