From uplifting inner-city scholars in South Central L.A. to prison moms in Colorado to a Monterey Park community in need, Oxy 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).
With three Super Bowls on his resume, Jim Tunney '51 (1929-2024) became the face of football officiating
Associate Professor Jane Hong and a dream team of educators bring 150 years of Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander history into focus
A concert for the ages celebrates the generations-spanning clientele of music attorney John Branca 72 and the launch of the John Branca Institute for Music
Campaign Semester can be a gateway to a career in politics, advocacy work, or even elected office, as seven seasoned campaigners will attest
After 28 years in the classroom and mentoring 74 students in her lab at Oxy, Professor Eileen Spain pivots to prepare future generations of faculty in the physical sciences
New books by Carole MacNeil 84, Jessica C. Harris 08, Jessica Keith 00, Marsha de la O 74, and the latest documentary short by C矇sar Mart穩nez Barba 17
Although the outcomes of Novembers elections will impact higher education, Occidentals mission will not change
Professor Emeritus Eric Newhall 67 recounts the fallout from his decision to oppose the Vietnam War in a memoir more than 50 years in the making
Combining her interest in sustainability with her prowess behind the camera, Angelina Lee 22 harvests a new documentary around permaculture
Before arriving at Occidental, these eight members of the Class of 28 (and a transfer student from the Class of 27) discovered their superpowers in the classroom, in their communities, in...
Projects for Peace participants Eleanor Goddard 25 and Stephen Amankonah Sekyere 27 bring technologyand hopeto middle-schoolers in West Africa
For Campaign Semester students in battleground Pennsylvania and 13 other states, the road map to Election Day entails knocking on every door
In the third act of a career that spans stage, screen, and television, actor Loren Lester 83 realizes a lifelong dream of performing on the Great White Way
