校园的笔记
We are less than one month away from welcoming our newest Occidental students to campus and our Orientation team is asking for the support of available staff and faculty.
- LA Engage chaperones are needed for Monday, August 21. A total of 150 first-year students will be arriving early to explore Southern California through this pre-orientation program. 作为监护人, you will guide and support these groups while exploring the landscapes, 洛杉矶的地标和充满活力的历史. Contact Assistant Director of SLICE Ginny Salazar for more info
- Move-in for first-year and transfer students will also take place on Monday, August 21. REHS is seeking volunteers to assist students and their families. Sign up for a 2-3 hour shift in a variety of roles. 将提供餐点、零食和一件t恤.
Thank you for helping us welcome the newest members of the Tiger family!
新闻报道
Summer Research Program Inspires New Discoveries and Fruitful Collaborations
The flagship program of Occidental's Undergraduate Research Center offers students an opportunity to conduct paid research in close collaboration with professors. This year’s topics run the gamut from totalitarianism in Argentina to vaccine efficacy and a recently uncovered Liszt manuscript.
教授. 意志的力量’s Acclaimed Play Makes Center Theatre Group Debut
意志的力量, assistant professor of theater and performance studies, made his Center Theatre Group debut with his play Fetch Clay, 使人, running from June 18 to July 16 at the Kirk Douglas Theatre in Culver City.
President Elam Talks with Director Debbie Allen About the State of Performing 艺术
十大正规网赌平台院长哈里. 拦,小. and renowned entertainer and director Debbie Allen engaged in a wide-ranging conversation about the state of performing arts on June 26.
教授. 本杰明·韦斯16年被评为富布赖特学者
Benjamin Weiss ’16, assistant professor of sociology, has been awarded a Fulbright U.S. Scholar Fellowship to teach and do research in Lithuania in spring 2024.
六加入十大正规网赌平台董事会
The 十大正规网赌平台 Board of Trustees is pleased to welcome six new members to its ranks. They bring skills and expertise as well as passion for Occidental’s mission.
人力资源的角落
Mark your calendars: A counselor from Oxy’s 403(b) retirement plan vendor, TIAA, will be on campus for 1:1 retirement plan counseling sessions on August 21 and August 25. Meetings will be held in the Academic Commons Carrel #124 and are by appointment only.
Here is the latest list of arrivals and departures from June 22 to July 21:
移民
Celestina Castillo, Executive Director of Center for Community Based Learning
Oscar Ceballos，生产/服务助理
Helena Lazaro, Associate Director of Foundation Relations and Strategic Initiatives
Michelle Obergfoll, Director of 残疾人服务 & 学生支持
Kathlena Shaughnessy, Senior Associate Director of Major Gifts
离职
Rhemi Abrams-Fuller, Associate Dean of Admission/Coordinator of 体育运动 Recruitment
琳达·埃斯科瓦尔，人事部经理
Joleen Galeazzi-Pimentel, Assistant Athletic Trainer
吉姆·特拉克达，通讯主任
员工的呐喊
Vanessa Gonzalez-Wright报道, Intercultural Community Center director: I would love to shout-out the amazing ICC staff—Robin Maxile, Katrina Weti and Aly Escobar—for all the hard work that they have put in to execute an incredible summer MSI program for students that is filled with joy and community. Special shout-out to our amazing student assistant, Sueli Zalazar, 24岁, for all that she does to make this program a success.
From Vivian Garay Santiago, assistant vice president for student affairs & 副教务长:向牧师致敬. Dr. Susan Young, director of the Office of Religious & 精神生活, for securing another grant from the Jewish Federation of Greater 洛杉矶 which will continue to fund Ben Greenberg, Oxy的犹太学生生活协调员, 今年!
荣誉
In a chapter titled "The Picture Project: Originating Story through Movement" for the new book Embodied Playwriting: Improv and Acting Exercises for Writing and Devising他是戏剧系副教授 & 性能的研究 莎拉Kozinn “图片计划”的细节,” an exercise she developed to encourage students to see themselves as creators and agents of their own artistic process, 弥合演员之间的界限, 作家, 导演兼制片人. The process helps students understand how physicality shapes perception and allows them to craft characters from embodied experience.
政治学副教授 詹妮弗Piscopo 被引用于 外交政策 article on whether or not gender quotas work in elections.
心理学教授 安德鲁Shtulman 被选为美国第51任总统 哲学与心理学学会, the premier scientific and educational organization for philosophically interested psychologists and psychologically interested philosophers.
宗教研究教授 克丽丝蒂 Upson-Saia他的新书， Medicine, Health, and Healing in the Ancient Mediterranean aims to make an intervention in the ways pre-modern medicine is studied. The volume pairs 50 textual sources—many hard to access and many translated into English for the first time—with artistic, 材料, and scientific evidence to paint a rich and nuanced picture of ancient health and healing.
Upson-Saia还写了一篇文章 新博文 weighing in on the historical precedence of a lawsuit hoping to retract approval of mifepristone. The lawsuit is spearheaded by a group claiming the authority of "Hippocratic medicine."
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