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Administration Congratulates 8 Newly Promoted Professors

March 31, 2016
Communications Staff

Eight associate professors have been promoted to the rank of professor in the 2015-2016 academic year. The promoted faculty are:

  • Salvatore Champagne
  • Angela Cheng
  • Alvin Chow
  • Richard Hawkins
  • Geoffrey Pingree
  • Eve Sandberg
  • Haewon Song
  • Sylvia Watanabe

The Oberlin College and Conservatory administration extends congratulatory wishes to these seven professors on their promotions and wishes to express its heartfelt thanks for their continued dedication to the college and its mission. Professor of Creative Writing Sylvia Watanabe is currently on leave and was not available for a portrait.

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Faculty Promotions 2016

A professor stands and plays a piano while a student sings in a brightly lit room
Professor of Singing and Director of the Division of Vocal Studies Salvatore Champagne ’85 (https://www.oberlin.edu/salvatore-champagne) returned to his alma mater nearly a decade after leaving it, recognizing teaching, rather than performing, to be his true passion.
 Photo credit: Tanya Rosen-Jones ’97
A professor instructs a student at side-by-side pianos
Professor of Piano Angela Cheng (https://www.oberlin.edu/angela-cheng) is an avid recitalist praised for her brilliant technique, tonal beauty, and superb musicianship.
 Photo credit: Tanya Rosen-Jones ’97
A man performs at the piano
Ruth Strickland Gardner Professor of Piano and Chair of the Piano Department Alvin Chow (https://www.oberlin.edu/alvin-chow) began studying piano at the age of 5 along with his twin brother, Alan. He has performed extensively with his brother as well as his wife, Angela Cheng, in duo-piano recitals in addition to appearing throughout North America and in Asia as an orchestral soloist and recitalist.
 Photo credit: Dale Preston ’83
A man performs a solo clarinet piece with an orchestra
Fenelon B. Rice Professor of Clarinet Richard Hawkins (https://www.oberlin.edu/richard-hawkins) joined the Oberlin Conservatory of Music faculty in 2001. He discovered his dedication for educating the world’s finest clarinetists in 1993 while teaching at the Interlochen Arts Academy in northern Michigan.
 Photo credit: Yevhen Gulenko
A man reaches forward while two others look on
In addition to teaching cinema studies and English, Geoffrey Pingree (https://www.oberlin.edu/geoff-pingree) co-founded the Apollo Outreach Initiative (AOI) (http://www.apollooutreach.org/), a media literacy outreach program dedicated to fostering local and global education, understanding, community building, and social change by providing sustainable educational outreach and media literacy opportunities for public school students of all ages in Lorain County, Ohio.
 Photo credit: John Seyfried
A woman sits in the middle of an office filled with files and books
Professor and Chair of Politics [Eve Sandberg](https://new.oberlin.edu/arts-and-sciences/departments/politics/faculty_detail.dot?id=21163) came to Oberlin in 1990 after earning a doctor of philosophy from Yale University. Her teaching focuses on international relations, Third World political-economies, African studies, and United States foreign policy.
 Photo credit: Jennifer Manna
A woman plays the piano
A native of South Korea, Professor of Piano Haewon Song (https://www.oberlin.edu/haewon-song) came to Oberlin in 1991. She is a member of the acclaimed Oberlin Trio along with David Bowlin, associate professor of violin, and Amir Eldan, associate professor of cello.
 Photo credit: Walter Novak
A professor stands and plays a piano while a student sings in a brightly lit room
A professor instructs a student at side-by-side pianos
A man performs at the piano
A man performs a solo clarinet piece with an orchestra
A man reaches forward while two others look on
A woman sits in the middle of an office filled with files and books
A woman plays the piano

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