Campus News

Physician and epidemiologist Donald A. Henderson ’50 (D.A. to friends), who won the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2002 for heading the World Health Organization team that eradicated smallpox worldwide, died August 19 at a hospice facility in Towson, Maryland. He was 87.

Manager of Social Strategy and Projects Ma’ayan Plaut, Assistant Director of Alumni Relations Marissa Evans, and Assistant Director of the Oberlin Annual Fund Jessica Stewart pose on a Tappan Square

Throughout April, the career center will conduct a needs assessment with current juniors and seniors and recent alumni to discover what they need most to identify and achieve their career objectives.

Happening throughout April, the Still Oberlin campaign encourages alumni to visit go.oberlin.edu/still, make a gift to the Oberlin Annual Fund, and request a campus photo of their choice.

The fall 2015 experimental course The Past and Future of Higher Education allowed students and alumni to generate an informed intergenerational discussion about the history of U.S. higher education, its current state, and its possible future.

Founding member of the Carolina Chocolate Drops Rhiannon Giddens ’00 performs on February 20 in Finney Chapel as part of the Convocation Swimming in Dark Waters: Other Voices of the American

Alesandra Zsiba ’10 stands with Director of Entrepreneurship Elyzabeth Holford after she was awarded $20,000 for her LaunchU venture, the Identity Project. Through a specialized curriculum in

Director Steven Spielberg’s latest film Bridge of Spies, in theaters this past weekend, tells the story of American insurance lawyer James Donovan (played by Tom Hanks), who first defended accused

Nearly 200 alumni visited campus October 2-4 for the Oberlin Alumni Association of African Ancestry (OA4) Reunion. The reunion marks the 180th anniversary of Oberlin’s decision to adopt a non

Gabriel Moore ’15 studies Caenorhabditis elegans (C.elegans), microscopic worms that can serve as model organisms to study biological processes that may then be applied to more complex organisms