Faculty and Staff Notes

Eboni Johnson Elected New President of Oberlin City Council

January 3, 2024

STEM Librarian and Head of the Science Library Eboni Johnson was elected on January 2, 2024, as the new President of Oberlin City Council. Her dedication to education and community service promises a bright future for the city.

Jackie Zubin Begins One-Year Term as NAFSA Conference Planner

January 3, 2024

Jackie Zubin begins one-year term as NAFSA: Association of International Educators Region VI (Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio) Conference Planner and will be planning the 2024 regional conference in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Sheila Miyoshi Jager Book Reviewed in The Wall Street Journal

January 3, 2024

Stephen R. Platt reviewed Professor of East Asian Studies Sheila Miyoshi Jager's latest book, The Other Great Game: The Opening of Korea and the Birth of Modern East Asia (Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2023), in The Wall Street Journal (22 Dec 2023).

Anna Lordan Facilitated Virtual Workshop

December 20, 2023

Visiting Assistant Professor of Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies Anna Lordan facilitated a workshop on Listening to Silence: An Experiential Exploration through Contemporary Ukrainian Poetry, as part of the series "Silence: practices, experiences and rituals" offered through Jagiellonian University, Kraków, on December 19.

Yveline Alexis Presenter at The Caribbean Digital Conference

December 20, 2023

Yveline Alexis was invited to Yale University for The Caribbean Digital conference to present on Caribbean Studies and social justice. She, along with scholars from Jamaica, Antigua, Ireland, Puerto Rico, Belize, and Trinidad & Tobago discussed digitizing projects like Irish slaveowners in Cuba, the presence and destruction of colonial records, and how Caribbeans archive their stories.

Shuming Chen Recent Coauthored Articles Published

December 6, 2023

Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry Shuming Chen has recently published three articles with Oberlin student coauthors. “Chemoselective Quinoline and Isoquinoline Reduction by Energy Transfer Catalysis Enabled Hydrogen Atom Transfer” was published in Angewandte Chemie International Edition with Kyogo Nagashima ’24 and collaborators from Shanghai Jiao Tong University. “Pd/IPrBIDEA-Catalyzed Hydrodefluorination of gem-Difluorocyclopropanes: Regioselective Synthesis of Terminal Fluoroalkenes,” appeared in the Journal of the American Chemical Society with Zachary Cheng ’25 and collaborators from Renmin University of China. Most recently, “Nitrene-Mediated Enantioselective Intramolecular Olefin Oxyamination to Access Chiral γ-Aminomethyl-γ-Lactones,” was published in Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. with Clayton Ritter ’23 and collaborators in Marburg, Germany.

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