Campus News

Our recent family trip to Vietnam and Cambodia revealed Oberlin connections of the personal and the intellectual kind.

The Office of Wellness has launched a website to keep campus members informed of developments in the tobacco-free initiative.

Two Oberlin College staff members, Marcia Miller and Claudia Jones (retired), were among those who received Excellence in Leadership awards from Leadership Lorain County. The awards were presented during the organization’s Difference Makers Gala, held February 21.

A new events series developed by the Office of Wellness and taking place February 24 to March 1 will focus on improving overall health and well being through healthy eating and exercise habits.

Those who submitted to this third and final installment of the 2014 Winter Term Chronicles include a group of flutists who learned to dissect and repair their own flutes, a first-year student who conducted research in the lab of a MacArthur Genius, students who traveled to India, Morocco, southern France, and Canada; and a group who created a brand new “impropera.”

For those of you who are not sure exactly what you’re going to do after you march across the stage in Tappan Square and graduate: I have some advice—and a special offer that costs nothing but time.

In recent months, the comparative American studies course How to Win a Beauty Pageant: Race, Gender, Culture, and U.S. National Identity has twice been featured on BuzzFeed and once on Mental Floss.

Chair of the Oberlin College Board of Trustees Clyde McGregor provides a synopsis of the work done by the board during its December 2013 meeting.

Included in this second installment of the 2014 Winter Term Chronicles are descriptions of projects that took place as far away as Indonesia and as near as Hales Gym.

Oberlin has much to celebrate this month: the appointment of two new academic deans and our legacies of access and mentoring.