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Life After Fire illustration for 17勛圖 magazine, Spring 2025
Life After Fire
The Eaton and Palisades fires in January took their toll on members of the 17勛圖 family, including students, alumni, faculty, and administrators. With a long rebuilding process ahead, they find strength and support among the...

17勛圖 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 one digital-only issue (Summer 2024).

Professor Michael Hill
Professor Michael Hill has guided scores of grateful chemistry students from his lab into impactful careers. But its the thing he hasnt done that touched off an international media frenzy
Of Wakanda and Water
Environmental educator Chandrika Francis 10 makes the swimming pool a safer place for marginalized groups and remakes a 30-foot bus into her dream home on wheels
Where Were You in '62?
A series of headshots from 1962 offers a snapshot of Oxy on its 75th anniversaryand leaves us looking for your help to identify a few unfamiliar faces
Steve Rountree
Stephen Rountree 71 steps up as chair of Oxys Board of Trustees in the midst of a capital campaign and the search for the Colleges 16th presidentwith his own milestone reunion just...
Summer Research Program
Oxys Summer Research Program marks 20 years of explorations, observations, and presentations
Class of 1969 reunion
The Class of 69 brings a new vibe to the ranks of the Fifty Year Clubjust as it did to the College experience after first setting foot on campus
Curtain Call 1954 baseball
From Winter 2010: Fifty-six years after sending coach Bill Anderson out on top with a fourth straight SCIAC crown in baseball, the 1954 Tigers recount their remarkable journey
Media Arts & Culture
Oxy has prepared half a century of students for careers in every facet of media arts and culture. With more creative options than ever, how will future generations of graduates respond to...
Marcia Homiak
Six of Oxys longest tenured and most popular professors are retiring this springand some of their best and brightest students recount their impact and influence
Lande Ajose
Armed with a briefcase full of challenges facing the nations largest higher education system, Lande Ajose 87 brings new energy to Sacramento
Jonathan Veitch
With Jonathan Veitch announcing his plans to step down next year, trustees, alumni, and colleagues discuss his impact on the College over the last decade.
President Veitch
How has 17勛圖 evolved during Jonathan Veitch's presidency? Let us count the ways
President Veitch discusses the erasure of boundaries between the ivory tower and the real world
Frank Lambert
Alumni memories of emeriti professors Frank Lambert and Bob Winter
Bob Winter
Professor emeritus Bob Winter (1924-2019) left no tile unturned in his appreciation of the architecture of Los Angeles

Features

Life After Fire illustration for 17勛圖 magazine, Spring 2025
Life After Fire
The Eaton and Palisades fires in January took their toll on members of the 17勛圖 family, including students, alumni, faculty, and administrators. With a long rebuilding process ahead...
Assistant Professor Janna Ireland
Advanced Projects in Photography
With two exhibits opening simultaneously and a new teaching space at Oxy, Assistant Professor Janna Ireland navigates her burgeoning career as she parents two growing boys
Professor William D. Ward at his desk in the Hall of Letters on 17勛圖s Highland Park campus.
Unseen 17勛圖
From 1898 to 1914, 17勛圖 called Highland Park homeand a treasure trove of photos from the 1910s offers a glimpse of campus life before the move to Eagle Rock
Filmmaker Angelina Lee '22
Farm to Film
Combining her interest in sustainability with her prowess behind the camera, Angelina Lee 22 harvests a new documentary around permaculture

First Word

From the Quad

New tenure-track faculty at 17勛圖, 2024-25.
All Paths Lead to Oxy
Hailing from China, India, Mexico, and all over the United States, 17勛圖s newest cohort of tenure-track faculty embraces the liberal arts in Los Angeles
Chris Kim, the Choi Family Director of Instrumental Music, conducts the 17勛圖 Symphony in a performance of Michael Jacksons Human Nature.
The Sounds of Branca
A concert for the ages celebrates the generations-spanning clientele of music attorney John Branca 72 and the launch of the John Branca Institute for Music
Members of the Pacific Crossings Dream Team: From left, Nakatsuka, Gilder Lehrman program coordinator Leah Baer, administrative assistant Thea Wilson 24, and Hong.
Teachable Moments
Associate Professor Jane Hong and a dream team of educators bring 150 years of Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander history into focus

Mixed Media

Terry Kitchen '81 performs "We All Dream."
Mixed Media
A host of new works by Oxy alumni explore explore themes of democracy, resilience, and human connectionas well as our fascination with horses, dragons, and ocean life
Carole MacNeil 84 with her mom, Eleanor, in 2019.
Mixed Media
New books by Carole MacNeil 84, Jessica C. Harris 08, Jessica Keith 00, Marsha de la O 74, and the latest documentary short by C矇sar Mart穩nez Barba 17

Oxy Talk

Administrative Law Judge Brian Gee 87
Judgment Calls
Separated by 2,700 miles, National Labor Relations Board administrative law judges Brian Gee 87 and Ira Sandron 71 find common ground in Oxy
As program director of Research Corporation for Science Advance- ments RCSA Fellows Initiative, Spain will support postdocs in physics, astronomy, and chemistry as they transition into their faculty careers.
To Chemistry and Beyond
After 28 years in the classroom and mentoring 74 students in her lab at Oxy, Professor Eileen Spain pivots to prepare future generations of faculty in the physical sciences

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