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Oberlin College and Conservatory Secures $80 Million in Certified Climate Bonds for Sustainable Infrastructure Program (SIP)
August 3, 2021
Office of Communications
Bond enables Oberlin to initiate substantive progress on four-year project to build new geothermal energy system for the campus; new energy system will be a critical component in College’s ability to achieve carbon neutrality by 2025.
Critical Language Scholarship Recipient Gains a Firmer Sense of Self
July 28, 2021
Yvonne Gay
Raavi Asdar’s Critical Language Scholarship not only helped him explore his own sense of self but exposed him to other cultures, all of which play a key factor as he ponders a career abroad after graduation.
Emperor's New Rules
July 23, 2021
Erich Burnett
Oberlin Opera Theater presents a surrealist work by Mollicone and a comedy by Menotti July 29-August 2.
Jazz Professor Billy Hart Named NEA Jazz Master for 2022
July 21, 2021
Erich Burnett
Drummer has performed with a long list of jazz greats across a career spanning seven decades.
Zoe Guiney ’21 Looks Forward to Exploring the Importance of Creative Expression in Communication
July 20, 2021
Yvonne Gay
Zoe Guiney, a Hispanic studies and cinema studies major, graduated from Oberlin College with high honors in May. Her educational journey will continue in Mexico as a Fulbright recipient.
TAPIF Fellow Plans to Challenge the Educational Norms
July 19, 2021
Yvonne Gay
While on a Teaching Assistant Program in France Fellowship, Jules Taylor ’21 hopes to learn who she is as an educator, while absorbing everything she can about the culture, language, and food of Paris.
BLACK VOICES
July 16, 2021
Yvonne Gay and Marsha Lynn Bragg
Black Voices: Members of the Oberlin Community discuss racism and the murder of George Floyd. A special online extra from the Oberlin Alumni Magazine spring 2021 issue.
Richard Hoffmann, Composer and Protégé of Arnold Schoenberg, Dies at 96
July 15, 2021
Erich Burnett
Fifty-year teaching career at Oberlin included annual student trips to his native Vienna.
Peter Takács’ Complete Beethoven Sonatas Reissued on Cambria Label
July 14, 2021
Erich Burnett
Initially released in 2011, acclaimed 11-disc set includes insightful essay by the longtime Oberlin piano professor.
Poet Milena Williamson Receives Eric Gregory Award
July 14, 2021
Scott Wargo
The accolades continue for poet Milena Williamson ’17, who was recently named the recipient of an Eric Gregory Award, which recognizes writers based in the United Kingdom who are under the age of 30.
