Campus News

As the fall 2015 semester commences, know this: You don’t have to become involved with every club or attend every event to get the most from your Oberlin experience.

The Peter B. Lewis Gateway Center is anticipated to open early 2016. The renewable-powered mixed-use development, designed to meet the highest possible U.S. Green Building Council LEED rating, is expected have a significant impact on the college and community.

The 11-week President's Public Service Fellow program provides funding for students to work full time with a local nonprofit or public sector agency on intensive service projects that engage and empower area teens and young adults.

Like many of his peers in the sciences, fifth-year double-degree student Adrian Singleton is no stranger to summer research. Singleton, who has worked with Geology Assistant Professor Amanda Schmidt for three years, is seen here examining containers of quartz, river sediment, and sheet silicate minerals as part of a broader honors project he began last semester. Click “Read more and comment” to learn more about Singleton’s research with Schmidt.

Mark McLeod will begin his work as the college’s new director of compensation and benefits on September 8.

Sophomore men’s soccer team player Jonah Blume-Kemkes assists with the move of an incoming first-year into Robert Lewis Kahn Hall on Tuesday, August 25. Now settled into their new homes, first-years

W. Dean Wolfe, emeritus professor and lay leader in the Episcopal Church, died from conditions related to a long battle with Parkinson’s Disease on August 10, 2015. He was 85. A memorial service will be held at Christ Church, Episcopal, 162 South Main Street, Oberlin, Ohio, on October 10 at 2 p.m. In lieu of floral tributes, the family suggests memorial gifts in his name to support Parkinson’s research to the Sun Health Foundation.

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

Tina Zwegat, director of orientation and associate director of the student union, offers tips on how new Obies can make the most of Orientation.

In a scene from the Oberlin Summer Theater Festival (OSTF) production of Shakespeare’s All’s Well that Ends Well, Helena speaks with Diana—the young woman her husband, Count Bertram, is attempting to