Campus News

The dazzling depth, breadth, and serious silliness of Bill Irwin’s lecture/performance/master class in Finney Chapel this past Sunday evening was great fun. It was also a vivid display of Oberlin’s unique creative energy.

“Thyagaraja at Oberlin: 12 Hours in South India” featured a performance by Vyasarpadi Kkothandaraman on the nadaswaram (a predecessor of the modern oboe) at the Apollo Theatre on April 22. The event

Student-faculty collaboration combined with our high level of scientific, artistic, and scholarly rigor is what sets research at Oberlin apart from research at many other colleges and universities.

Margaret Middleton ’17 stands next to her artwork, which was part of the “Latin Icon and Migration Exhibition” in Spanish House on April 15. The exhibit showcased students’ oral narratives and their

Spring in Oberlin features the usual wonders of flowers blooming, grass growing, and birds singing. But Oberlin’s springtime awakening is accompanied by something you won’t find or hear at other colleges—the sounds of music being practiced, played, and performed all over campus.

Emeritus Professor of Sociology William P. Norris died April 12, 2014. Funeral services will be private. A memorial service will be scheduled at Oberlin College in late May.

Spring Back, an evening of student- and faculty-choreographed work, took place in Warner Main on Saturday, April 12. Fall Forward (performed in early November) and Spring Back are traditions at

The college and conservatory offer a week of performances, lectures, and screenings about the arts and culture of Brazil with Oberlin-O-Brasil: Festa Brasileira.

Working to build a better community for all has been part of Oberlin’s ethos since its founding and I am proud to say that the spirit of serving to make the world a better place for all, is alive and well.

Oberlin’s Board of Trustees has approved recommendations to reappoint with continuous tenure seven assistant professors and promote them to the rank of associate professor.