12/14/2023
The Ben Culley Society of Occidental College
The Occidental College Legacy Society recognizes individuals who have arranged a future gift to Oxy.
During his thirty-nine year association with Occidental College, Ben Culley had a profound impact on the lives of countless students. He was famous for knowing the names and backgrounds of students even before he met them. His ability to recall details even years later was legendary. Ben once said his job was "to shake the students out of a form of scholastic lethargy - to become an irritant...to
11/13/2023
International Student Arrives at Occidental as Inaugural SHE-CAN Scholar Getting the best possible education has always been a priority for Villathina “Thina” Ly ’27. Growing up in the capital city of Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Ly’s parents always encouraged their only child to attain her highest possible educational potential. It was particularly important to Ly’s ...
11/10/2023
Luther Burbank Teacher Named Top of Her Class - Burbank Leader Solar pizza teaches you more than you’d think, says Luther Burbank Middle School’s Alanna Grimaldi, who was recently named as a 2024 California Teacher of the Year finalist. Leading a classroom activity to challenge students to think outside the pizza box, Grimaldi instructs her sixth grade scie...
11/09/2023
2023 SCIAC Champions for First Time in Program History - Occidental College Los Angeles, CA – The Occidental men's soccer team hosted the University of Redlands for the 2023 Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Men's Soccer Championship game tonight and walked away as the 2023 SCIAC Champions for the first time ever in program history!
10/30/2023
09/28/2023
Robin Wall Kimmerer Featured in Occidental’s Fourth Annual Community Book Program */ /*-->*/ /*-->*/ Exploring the role of indigenous knowledge as an alternative or complementary approach to Western mainstream scientific methodologies, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants is the 2023-24 community book selection written by Potaw...
09/25/2023
Living in a Wildlife Corridor View photo gallery Not long after he was caught and tagged by wildlife biologists in 2012, P-22—a mountain lion who migrated from the Santa Monica Mountains to Griffith Park, a 20-mile odyssey that crossed the 405 and 101 freeways—became the face of urban wildlife in Southern California. Photogr...
09/07/2023
Prof. Jane Hong Wins National Endowment for the Humanities Grant Working as a Teach for America teacher after college, Occidental College Associate Professor of History Jane Hong remembers how difficult it was to cover everything she wanted to talk about in her curriculum and pitch content to the New Jersey middle and high school students she taught.
08/31/2023
Fanfare for a Mountain Lion Last December, following the death of P-22 —the mountain lion who called Griffith Park home for more than a decade following his discovery in 2012—the Los Angeles Times published a story about his impact on the city. “An everyday citizen tweeted that the 12-year-old bachelor with the mesmerizi...
08/01/2023
One for the Ages: Professor Linda Besemer Linda Besemer James Irvine Distinguished Professor, Art and Art History Years at Occidental: 36
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