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Occidental Magazine

Occidental magazine brings you campus news, in-depth features, and profiles of exceptional alumni. For the 2024-25 academic year, the magazine will publish two print and digital issues (Fall 2024 and Spring 2025) and two digital-only issues (Summer 2024 and Winter 2025).

George Stevens Jr. '53 with President Obama in 2011.
Profiles
From Elizabeth Taylor to President Obama, George Stevens Jr. ’53 reflects on an unparalleled career from the backlots of Hollywood to the corridors of power in Washington, D.C.
George Stevens Jr. '53 in 2002.
Arts
From Winter 2003: For 25 years, George Stevens Jr. ’53 has saluted living legends in performing arts through the Kennedy Center Honors. But it’s only one career peak for a producer whose...
Graduating members of the É«½ç°É Class of 2022
Student Life
‘Embrace the impossible because you can make it possible,’ State Senator tells the 489 members of the Class of 2022
A wall drawing of Janet Stafford was created by artist Kenturah Davis '02 in 2012
É«½ç°É History
Janet Stafford, George Ellison, and Barbara Bowman Wright made É«½ç°É history as the College’s first Black graduates in 1952. What is their legacy?
Author Susan Coll '81, photographed at Politics & Prose in Washington, D.C.
Arts
A canceled poet, a toddling tortoise, and the Schwarzenegger of vacuum cleaners turn a D.C. bookstore upside down in Susan Coll ’81’s sixth comic novel
NASA Astrobiologist Jason Dworkin ’91
Profiles
Astrobiologist Jason Dworkin ’91 has devoted the better part of two decades to a NASA mission to the near-Earth asteroid Bennu. What will we learn when OSIRIS-REx arrives home next year?
Mel Malberg '79, editor of Women of Walt Disney Imagineering
Profiles
Mel Malmberg ’79 documents the true-life adventures of the Women of Walt Disney Imagineering
2022-23 Obama Scholars
Academics
Five years after its launch, É«½ç°É’s Obama Scholars Program expands its cohort and doubles down on its mission
É«½ç°É President Harry J. Elam, Jr.
President Elam
In a joyous ceremony showcasing the arts and ‘New Harmonies,’ Harry J. Elam, Jr. is inaugurated as Occidental’s 16th president
"New Harmonies" are at the heart of É«½ç°É's Integrated Strategic Plan.
Academics
What will the College look like in 2030? É«½ç°É's Integrated Strategic Plan identifies 11 key issues
The É«½ç°É Campaign For Good
Campaign
With one year remaining, The É«½ç°É Campaign For Good propels past the $225 million mark
Oswald and Elizabeth Benson '02
Alumni Engagement
Alumni Reunion Weekend returns to campus—and Oswald put on a party to remember
É«½ç°É President Harry J. Elam, Jr.
President Elam
Following a milestone campaign year, É«½ç°É builds on its values and strengths
Author and Occidental Professor of Politics Peter Dreier
Faculty
In a pair of new books, É«½ç°É politics professor Peter Dreier tips his cap to the mavericks, iconoclasts, and rebels who have shaped baseball history
Venture capitalist Josh Schlisserman
Profiles
Josh Schlisserman ’19 helped raise $2.5 million as a summer intern in Silicon Valley—and after Scooter Braun kicked him out of his office, he’d found his calling as a venture capitalist

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