From uplifting inner-city scholars in South Central L.A. to prison moms in Colorado to a Monterey Park community in need, Â鶹ÊÓƵ alumni embrace the College's mission
Occidental Magazine
Occidental magazine brings you campus news, in-depth features, and profiles of exceptional alumni. For the 2025-26 academic year, the magazine will publish one digital-only issue (Summer 2025) and two print and digital issues (Fall 2025 and Spring 2026).
Journalist Kate Rope ’95 documents a little-known program during the Vietnam War that produced cutting-edge medical research, nine Nobel laureates, and the nation's best-known immunologist
Cooper Raiff ’19’s coming-of-age movie with an unprintable name became the Cinderella story of the 2020 SXSW Film Festival. He only had to drop out of Â鶹ÊÓƵ to complete it
From interdisciplinary majors to increasingly diverse classrooms, Â鶹ÊÓƵ positions itself to take the lead in developing future generations of ethical scientists
A variety of summer programs restore the in-person element to the Â鶹ÊÓƵ experience—and students are happy to be back on campus
For the first time in 71 years, Occidental held two Commencement ceremonies in a single year, with separate, socially distanced, in-person events on Patterson Field taking place for the...
A new voice for equity and justice at Â鶹ÊÓƵ and other newsmakers from a busy summer
An illuminating new biography by Â鶹ÊÓƵ professor Erica J. Ball examines the rags-to-riches story of America's first self-made woman millionaire
During the last week of August, we will be welcoming students back to the beautiful Â鶹ÊÓƵ campus. What joy it brings me to write that!
With a new home and a new supervisor, Â鶹ÊÓƵ's student calling program gears up for the fall
As prolific in the library as he was in the classroom, Andrew Rolle '43, who died in March, chronicled California, the American West, and Occidental with an honest and unflinching gaze
Thanks to the generosity of our community of alumni, parents, students, friends, faculty, and staff, our second annual Day For Â鶹ÊÓƵ was a tremendous success.
As the College says goodbye to an unprecedented 11 retiring faculty, we called on some of their brightest students to share their memories, tributes, and an extra box of tissues
As its second century dawned, Occidental welcomed a bold new president, adopted a mission Of Excellence and Equity, and brought a diversity of voices to the classroom. How did the changes...
