Campus News

Dean Baquet, executive editor of the New York Times, answers a student’s question following his convocation speech on Tuesday, March 31, in Finney Chapel. A former reporter for the Times-Picayune in

Multi-instrumentalist, composer/arranger, and producer Gonzalo Grau comes to Oberlin Thursday, April 2, as part of the Performance and Improvisation (PI) Series. Grau will lead a master class from noon to 1:30 p.m. in Clonick Hall and will perform from 10 to 11:30 p.m. in the Cat in the Cream.

Multi-instrumentalist, composer/arranger, and producer Gonzalo Grau comes to Oberlin Thursday, April 2, as part of the Performance and Improvisation (PI) Series. Grau will lead a master class from noon to 1:30 p.m. in Clonick Hall and will perform from 10 to 11:30 p.m. in the Cat in the Cream.

A series of events is taking place this weekend, including the symposium Asian Cinemas in a Global Context; the lecture “Why Cinema Has Not Yet Been Invented: or Taking the Digital in Hand,” by University of Chicago Professor Tom Gunning; and the lecture “Globalization from a Local Lens: Creative Conceptions of a Taiwanese Director,” by documentary filmmaker Ho Chao-ti. The symposium is the first to explicitly bring together Indian and Chinese cinemas for discussion.

The Oberlin College Commencement exercises will be held Monday, May 25, in Tappan Square. Marian Wright Edelman, founder and president of the Children's Defense Fund (CDF), will deliver the Commencement address.

Bassist, composer, and bandleader John Clayton—pictured here at the inaugural Milton J. Hinton Institute for Studio Bass held at Oberlin in June 2014—and his son, pianist and composer Gerald Clayton

It’s not too late to get your tickets for Thursday’s Punch Brothers concert! The genre-defying progressive ensemble plays tomorrow, February 19, at 8 p.m. in Finney Chapel.

The second stop on the Punch Brothers’ three-part residency included an afternoon listening party in Stull Recital Hall on Tuesday, March 11.

Geochemist R. Lawrence Edwards looks to cave deposits, ocean sediments, and ice cores for clues to historic and prehistoric climate. He'll discuss his work and its implications for study of current climate change November 14, 15, and 21.

A “spirited full house” greeted Ron Paul in Finney Chapel on Sunday, April 7, wrote Elyria Chronicle Telegram reporter Emily Kennedy in her coverage of the former U.S. Representative’s talk. Read more