The Eaton and Palisades fires in January took their toll on members of the Occidental family, including students, alumni, faculty, and administrators. With a long rebuilding process ahead, they find strength and support among the...
Occidental Magazine
Occidental magazine brings you campus news, in-depth features, and profiles of exceptional alumni. For the 2024-25 academic year, the magazine published two print and digital issues (Fall 2024 and Spring 2025) and one digital-only issue (Summer 2024).
How did they get here? The Class of 2005—the most selective in ɫƵ history—hit campus on the heels of a "hot" Newsweek story in August 2001
From Summer 2000: As attorney general of Arizona, Grant Woods ’76 helped bring Big Tobacco to its knees. Every day he ignites the airwaves with his popular radio gig. Is a run for governor...
From Winter 2011: Mental conditioning professional Trevor Moawad ’95 M’01 maximizes athletes’ potential by unlocking the power of the mind
From Winter 2002: The horror, the heroes, and the hole in the sky: Seven ɫƵ alumni share their tales of the city on 9/11
Peter Quint ’87 channels his life experiences—as an educator, athlete, and advocate for the Deaf—into his debut novel, Resilient Silence
From Dining Services to Residential Life, and Facilities to ITS, scores of dedicated people kept the College ticking throughout the pandemic
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 ɫƵ to complete it
From interdisciplinary majors to increasingly diverse classrooms, ɫƵ 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 ɫƵ 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...
An illuminating new biography by ɫƵ 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 ɫƵ campus. What joy it brings me to write that!
