Martha Ronk, Occidental’s Irma and Jay Price Professor of English Literature, is a finalist for the 2013 National Book Award poetry prize.

A $91,225 grant from the Kathryn Caine Wanlass Charitable Foundation will fund visiting artists and provide important studio equipment at Occidental College over the next two years...

Leading education reform critic Diane Ravitch will speak about her new book, Reign of Error: The Hoax of the Privatization Movement and the Danger to America's Public Schools, at...

With an eye toward enhancing environmental initiatives on campus, Occidental has hired its first sustainability coordinator.

Five new tenure-track scholars have joined the Occidental faculty, from a volcanologist to a specialist in modern China.

Occidental has been identified as an institution with a high rate of female physics majors by the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory (NHMFL). Out of 95 U.S. colleges and...

The secret to Diana Nyad's historic Cuba-to-Florida swim may have been the custom silicone mask to protect her face from jellyfish stings created just for her by Stefan Knauss ’88...

Occidental joins a national initiative to support civic learning and democratic engagement.