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Dan Chaon, Delaney Professor of Creative Writing , has finalized a deal with with Buster Productions as writer, executive producer, and creator of a limited television series based on his 2017 novel...

Alexia Hudson-Ward likes to humblebrag about her namesake and endowed title, Azariah Smith Root, because anyone in the world of librarianship knows about his legendary career. For the uninitiated,...

Ralph Harold Turner, 100, of Oberlin, passed away April 16, 2017, at Kendal at Oberlin Health Center after a long illness. Turner worked at Oberlin College department of psychology from 1947 to 1979...

It is hard to believe this will be my final President’s Desk column. But in August, I will become president of Pace University in New York. While I am excited by that challenge, leaving this...

While many students are currently taking a well-deserved break from most things Oberlin-related, members of the Student Union Programming Committee (SUPC) are getting no such reprieve. As the primary...

Yeworkwha Belachew, retired ombudsperson and founder of the Oberlin College Dialogue Center, passed away Wednesday evening following a lengthy illness. She was 65. A service will be held at 1 p.m...

Young musicians representing eight countries will vie for cash prizes totaling $40,000.

Holly Hoang, a history major from Ellicott City, Maryland, has received a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship in South Korea. Hoang will be living and working in the country from July 2017 to...

Miriam Plane, a sociology major and Gender Studies/Feminist Studies (GSFS) minor, has been awarded a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship to Germany. Plane will live and work in Berlin from...

The Oberlin Summer Theater Festival (OSTF) opens its ninth season June 16 with a production of The Miracle Worker .