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NPR Correspondent Robert Krulwich ’69 Receives Webby Award National Public Radio correspondent Robert Krulwich ’69, co-host of the popular Radio Lab series, has won a Webby Award for his original web cartoon series exploring carbon as the heart of global warming. Krulwich received the honor for best use of animation in online film and video for the five-part series titled Global Warming: It’s All About Carbon.

Two Alumni Elected Members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Oberlin Alumni Philip C. Hanawalt ’54 and Scott Sagan ’77 have been elected new members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS). Hanawalt and Sagan serve on the faculties of Stanford University. They are among the 212 scholars, scientists, artists, and civic, corporate, and philanthropic leaders–all leaders in their fields–elected this year by the Academy. One of the country's oldest honorary learned societies, AAAS is an independent policy research center and undertakes studies of complex and emerging problems.

Newsweek's Fareed Zakaria Will Present 2008 Commencement Address Fareed Zakaria, editor of Newsweek International, will deliver the 2008 Commencement address and also receive an honorary degree in humanities on Memorial Day. More than 600 students are expected to receive degrees during Commencement Exercises. Also receiving honorary degrees will be Stuart Card ’66, a senior research fellow at the Palo Alto Research Center; The Color of Water author and musician James McBride '79; Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, director of the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society at Columbia University; and Charlene Drew Jarvis '62, the ninth president of Southeastern University.

Oberlin Awards Creativity & Leadership Fellowships for Entrepreneurship A fair-trade company bringing artisan-made goods from Morocco to the United States, a rock music education program marketed to summer camps for middle school students, and software that will change the way students learn Chinese are all new ventures funded by Oberlin's Creativity and Leadership Project. Graduating seniors Alia Kate, Nathaniel Gelb, Nick Winter, Scott Erickson, and George Saines were awarded the Creativity and Leadership Fellowships to spend next year launching their entrepreneurial projects. Creativity and Leadership: Entrepreneurship at Oberlin is funded by a grant from the Burton D. Morgan Foundation and the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation.