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… The first time Michael Gonzales ’96 set foot in Zambia, he was an Oxy student hitchhiking through the country en route … to Zambia. Gonzales was sworn in on August 10, 2022, after a yearlong selection and confirmation process that … About 70% of U.S. ambassadors are career Foreign Service officers like Gonzales. “Many who enter the foreign …
… and community-based organizations. Held the Saturday after Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the day has become a … Life, Alumni Affairs and Residential Education and Housing Services, the event attracts upwards of 200 participants each year who engage in … Occidental College’s annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service will be held this year on Saturday, January 23, …
… he completed his secondary education. “My father did not want his kids going to U.S. high schools in the late ’70s,” … Buckmire, whose family relocated to Barbados when he was 11. “My best teacher was a chemistry teacher, so that’s … (RPI), an engineering-oriented school, as a physics major. After one semester, he switched to mathematics, and that set …
… —Shana Goffredi, associate professor of biology, after discovering tiny orange tube worms and dozens of other … of the Royal Society —may place proposed precious metal mining in the Gulf of California in hot water. …
… The first time Michael Gonzales ’96 set foot in Zambia, he was an Oxy student hitchhiking through the country en route … he would be named U.S. ambassador to Zambia. Sworn in after a yearlong selection and confirmation process, Michael … will relocate to Zambia with his wife Carol, a foreign service officer with the U.S. Agency for International …
… The new program funded by the Ahmanson Foundation was created in 2013 for the recruitment, education and … allows me to support my brothers and sisters even after leaving the battlefield," he says. Indeed, Hammonds … veterans as well as a presentation called Seventy Years of Service highlighting the history of service members at the …
… where I have elated on mountain tops and groveled in murky swamps and ambled through brambles in the tricky valleys as … becoming a doctor. I had my 2-S deferment—the Selective Service act protecting college students from the draft while … It fractured my dreams. It reinforced my father’s critique after my freshman year at Oxy, when I returned home to …
… Occidental’s embrace of community service and engagement is embedded in its first-year student … education and the Promise Neighborhoods model. Occidental was one a handful of top-ranked liberal arts colleges named … roll five times since the national recognition program was launched in 2006. During the 2011-2012 school year, …
… of Urban and Environmental Policy hands out student awards for community service—and this year the department named a new award after Professor Peter Dreier, who retired in June after 32 … After 32 years as a professor at Oxy, Dreier will return in …
… Anthony Chase , professor of diplomacy and world affairs (DWA), was presented with the prestigious Graham L. Sterling … a faculty member with a distinguished record of teaching, service and professional achievement. Erica Ball , Mary Jane … but also a caring, kind, and gracious human being. Even after my graduation, she continues to inspire me as a role …