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Gifts in Action :: Professorships
Oberlin’s tradition of preparing students for meaningful and successful lives through a solid grounding in the liberal arts rests squarely on the shoulders of the faculty. Our exceptional faculty propels the intellectual life of the campus, allows us to compete for the most promising students, and bolsters the reputation of the school.
Endowed professorships are the cornerstone of the effort to sustain the expertise of our faculty and to recognize their impact on the lives of our students.
Taking the next step:
To learn more about endowing a professorship, please contact the Leadership Giving staff at leadership.giving@oberlin.edu or (440) 775-8545. We also encourage you to fill out the request for information form so we may better assist you.
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"They're a blast to teach," says Oberlin College Professor Dan Stinebring of his students |
Professorship Helps Faculty Star Illuminate Mysteries of the Universe
"Astronomy,” says Dan Stinebring, the Francis D. Federighi Professor of Natural Science at Oberlin, “is loaded with mind-blowing concepts.” So on the first day of Introductory Astronomy, he sets out to introduce the hundred-plus students packed into Craig Lecture Hall for his popular course to at least one of them. He dims the lights, cues the video, and treats them to Powers of 10, a film that starts with an image of a sleeping man in a field and then moves farther away by a power of 10 every 10 seconds, transporting students in a matter of minutes from the human scale to the edge of the universe. The effect is eye-opening and exhilarating. “They start to realize just how vast the universe is,” says Stinebring. And they’re hooked.
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