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.

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded Occidental a $750,000 grant to re-imagine components of the College’s first-year general education Core program.

As this year’s Hume Fellows, the acclaimed quartet the Flying Karamazov Brothers will bring their comedy-juggling spectacle 4 PLAY to Occidental for a not-to-be-missed performance...

Six new professors with impressive backgrounds in teaching and research are joining the Occidental faculty this fall.

When Dean Jorge Gonzalez learned his beloved Mexico team would play in the Olympic gold medal soccer game, he wasted no time. Here are some excerpts from his journal.

A $1-million donation from the estate of Mose and Sylvia Firestone will expand on-site psychiatric and counseling services at Occidental College’s Emmons Health Center.

Seeking to uncover the secrets of everything from brain cancer to bromeliads to Bill Maher, a record 124 Occidental students spent 10 weeks this summer conducting groundbreaking...

For a small liberal arts college, they are impressive numbers: 21 Olympic athletes in eight sports, seven of whom won a total of nine medals.