The Biology Department faculty and staff have read several articles and books to educate themselves on the historical and current practices of racism in science. We want to share some of these materials and continue these discussions to move toward a more inclusive, anti-racist community. We invite your additional thoughts and ideas, your voices and concerns, and we pledge to listen and engage with you every step of the way.
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This concert is free and open to the public. Stay afterward for an informal reception with Glee Club members and director Desiree La Vertu.
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On a recent overseas assignment for NPR, correspondent Kat Lonsdorf ’09 and her field team traveled to central Beirut amid a ceasefire in Lebanon. The pause in fighting followed the war’s deadliest day, when Israeli airstrikes on what the Israeli military identified as Hezbollah targets killed more than 350 people across Lebanon in 10 minutes. Lonsdorf spent two days with the family of 26-year-old Zahraa Abboud, who went missing when the apartment building where she had been staying was destroyed in the airstrikes.
As the eyes of the soccer community turned to North America for the 2026 FIFA World Cup, Seattle took center stage as one of 11 U.S. host cities. Lumen Field hosted six matches, including the United States’ Round of 16 loss to Belgium on July 6 that ended the team’s World Cup run. Just a mile away, Waterfront Park hosted free watch parties for 10 matches, drawing a single-day record of 84,767 visitors on June 19—a festive mix of soccer fans and Juneteenth celebrants.
The screensaver on filmmaker Elliot Tuttle ’22’s phone is a still of Nicole Kidman from a photo call for the 2004 movie Dogville. “She is my hero—I love her,” he says. “I don’t play about her.”
It may come as a surprise to learn that Alicia González is not a native speaker of Spanish—the language she has taught to thousands of students over the last 25 years at Occidental. She majored in international studies and Spanish at Stanford before pursuing graduate work in linguistics at UCLA.
When Jan Lin first saw a faculty opening in the Sociology Department at Occidental, he had never heard of the College. Yet the position offered exactly what he had been looking for. After teaching at Amherst College and the University of Houston, he wanted to return to a major city without giving up the close relationships with students that define a liberal arts education.
Discovering new career paths, uncovering fresh research project ideas, and dancing on stage at the Hollywood Bowl would be a lot to expect from any summer internship, let alone one that’s in its first year. But 10 Â鶹ĘÓƵ students participating in the new LA Phil-Â鶹ĘÓƵ Internship Program came away with all that and much more.
On the eve of Commencement in May, a select group of guests gathered at the Wallis Annenberg President’s House for a concert celebrating the music of Curb Records founder and chairman Mike Curb.
The calendar says July 31, but it’s mid-August hot (temperature: mid-90s; humidity: likewise) as Barack Obama ’83 steps from his RV in small, union-friendly Ottawa, Ill., about 80 miles southwest of Chicago. The hot dogs and corn on the grill go untasted as the boyishly handsome politician—fresh from his career-making speech at the Democratic National Convention—slowly moves through the parking-lot crowd of 350, which reluctantly parts to allow him to reach the stage where two-term U.S. Senator Dick Durbin awaits.