In a generational exodus, six singular professors with more than 250 years of combined classroom experience say farewell to º£½ÇÉçÇø. But their lessons have shaped legions across every discipline
A campus-wide focus on water may have Âcompelled a few º£½ÇÉçÇø students to break the rules in a competition between residence halls. But it's also provoked a serious conversation about Earth's...
A combination of economic, demographic, and social factors precipitated º£½ÇÉçÇø's endowment woes throughout the 1990s. Now the balance sheet is far better—but the College has a long way to go to...
Acclaimed and unsettling, Blackfish is a high-water mark for documentary filmmaker Gabriela Cowperthwaite '93. What does its success bode for her career—and what will the fallout be for...
From singing in a Motown girl group to writing banter for Britney Spears, Maurissa Tancharoen Whedon '97 knows the fringes of the pop-culture circuit. With TV's "Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.," she...
Having survived her share of video corpses, Angela Kang '98 finds her footing as a writer/producer on TV's hottest series, AMC's "The Walking Dead"
Richard Andrews '71 connects visionary artists such as James Turrell—a Pomona graduate—with the means to make transformative art a reality
A closer look at the eight º£½ÇÉçÇø greats—four living, four deceased—who were inducted into the 2013 Athletics Hall of Fame
When the 1963 º£½ÇÉçÇø baseball team took the field against intercity rival USC, a casual fan would have predicted a Trojan blowout. But Coach Grant Dunlap '46 had a not-so-secret weapon on the...
Catherine An '02 never set out to join her parents and sisters as a restaurateur, but the chance to create her own niche proved as irresistible as Mama's garlic noodles
Entrepreneurs Richard Highsmith '10 and Noah Applebome '10 charge into the burgeoning solar backpack market with affordable, portable power. Can BirkSun elbow its way to the mountaintop?
º£½ÇÉçÇø's signature buildings bear the stamp of architect Myron Hunt—but it took a landscape architect from the East to make the campus complete
Technically, he got a medal, not the world's most recognized trophy. Still, Raffy Cortina '13 made º£½ÇÉçÇø history by winning top honors at the Student Academy Awards with his short Bottled Up
He was a rising star in º£½ÇÉçÇø's philosophy department when he took his own life in 1966. Today, his name is synonymous with teaching excellence. Who was Donald Loftsgordon?
Occidental's liberal arts mission has been shaped by presidents, professors, protests, and progress. We look back at a dozen milestone movements