Occidental College offers you a unique combination of a rigorous academic program, small size, a diverse student body, and all the resources of Los Angeles. Our interdisciplinary, hands-on approach to the liberal arts challenges you to develop a wide range of skills; our close-knit community truly makes us what one college guide calls “an urban oasis.”
Lisa Wade, an Occidental College assistant sociology professor, has been honored with the Pacific Sociological Association's Early Career Award for Innovation in Teaching Sociology in recognition of her creative and novel teaching methods.
The Sacramento, Calif.-based association b
Using his trademark mix of erudition and dry humor, Bill Nye the Science Guy urged a standing-room-only Occidental College crowd to change the world by helping to develop new solutions to global warming in his March 10 Phi Beta Kappa lecture.
"The evidence that the earth is warming
The National Science Foundation has awarded Occidental College a $740,000 grant to help meet the growing demand for more K-12 math and science teachers.
The five-year grant--one of the largest NSF grants in Occidental history--will help educate, train and credential up to 40 highly
We're blushing: Occidental has one of America's 10 "most beautiful" college campuses, according to StructureHub, the architecture, d
Occidental College has received a three-year, $430,500 grant from the National Science Foundation to study a bacterium that may someday be used as a natural antibiotic by devouring hard-to-destroy bacterial germs in communities called biofilms.
Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus is a preda
Seasoned litigator and "environmental warrior" Walter Benjamin Fisherow '68 has received a Service to America medal -- one of the most prestigious awards honoring America's civil servants -- for helping to cut air pollution nationwide.
On Oct. 1, Occidental College will launch a “Big Read” celebration of alumnus and “poet of the American West Coast,” Robinson Jeffers, class of 1905. The kick-off event at Oxy’s Mary Norton Clapp Library will be the first in a series of events scheduled through Nov.
Occidental College will pay tribute on Saturday, Oct. 3, to legendary experimental filmmaker and longtime Oxy professor Chick Strand. Strand died on July 11 at age 78.
Occidental College President Jonathan Veitch defied those who dismiss colleges as ivory towers in a speech on the protocols, demands, and pleasures of reading at the College's annual Convocation ceremony in Tho
This Thursday, Occidental College’s Urban and Environmental Policy Institute (UEPI) and Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa will announce the city’s new Food Policy Task Force at “30 Years and Growing,” a celebration of 30 years of farmers’ markets in Los Angeles.
Bruno Louchouarn, director of Occidental College's Keck Language and Culture Studio and assistant professor in the theory and practice of multimedia, has composed the score for "The Night Is a Child," a new play by Charles Randolph Wright and directed by Sheldon Epps at the Pasade
Apart from poor air quality, Southern California wildfires have had no direct impact on the Occidental College campus.
Orientation for the Occidental Class of 2013 – expected to be the largest first-year class in Occidental history -- begins Saturday, Aug. 29, with student and parent check-in at Lower Herrick Chapel starting at 7:30 a.m.
Restructuring expert Stephen F. Cooper '68 has been named vice chairman of the newly formed "Office of the CEO" of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc. He will lead the company along with production head Mary Parent and CFO Bedi A. Singh.
Roger Boesche, Occidental's Arthur G. Coons Distinguished Professor in the History of Ideas, was given the rare privilege of a "drop-in" visit with President Barack Obama '83 -- his old student -- in the White House's Oval Office on August 13.
The inauguration of Jonathan Veitch as Occidental's 15th president will take place on Saturday, October 24 at 10 a.m. in the Remsen Bird Hillside Theater on the Occidental campus.
Patricia Alireza '94, a research associate at University College, London, has been awarded a prestigious one-year science fellowship to continue her postdoctoral research on electronic and magnetic interactions of materials under extreme conditions.
The late Jack Kemp '57 was among 16 individuals to whom President Barack Obama '83 awarded the 2009 Presidential Medal of Freedom this afternoon in the East Room of the White House. The medal is America's highest civilian honor.
Daisy Larios '07 has been selected as a Spectrum Scholar by the American Library Assn. Larios, a history major from Inglewood, works as a career services and information services library assistant at Drexel University's Hagerty Library in Philadelphia.
American Studies major Trevor Fay '09 was awarded the Huayu Enrichment Scholarship this year, making him the 10th Occidental College graduate to be awarded a scholarship from the Taiwan Ministry of Education since 2006.
