Campus News
Mega Musical Mashup Celebrates 10 Years
June 12, 2013
Logan Buckley
On Sunday, June 2, the Oberlin Community Music School wrapped up its 10th anniversary celebrations with a Mega Musical Mashup that brought Oberlin’s musical organizations to Tappan Square for community merrymaking. Watch a video from the festivities.
Summer in Oberlin
June 12, 2013
Marvin Krislov
There is a high level of civic, social, cultural, and economic activity that goes on in this city of some 8,200 residents, and while it slows down in the summer, it doesn’t stop.
Mentoring Young Astronomers
June 11, 2013
Communications Staff
Last month, Federighi Professor of Physics and Astronomy Dan Stinebring traveled to the world’s largest fully steerable radio telescope in Green Bank, West Virginia with three Oberlin...
Looking Ahead
June 5, 2013
Marvin Krislov
It’s an idyllic June day in Oberlin. While I don’t want to disturb anyone’s spring reverie, I have news about our 2013-14 Convocation series.
Oberlin Summer Theater Festival Kicks Off Fifth Season
June 5, 2013
Liv Combe
Professional and free are two words that don’t often appear together. But they do so repeatedly whenever the subject of conversation is the Oberlin Summer Theater Festival.
A Resounding Success
May 29, 2013
Marvin Krislov
I don’t believe any other liberal arts college in this country had such an amazing gathering of academic, intellectual, artistic, musical, and spiritual brilliance at their graduation ceremonies.
May Oberlin Inspire You Always
May 29, 2013
Marvin Krislov
Steady rain and unseasonably cool temperatures during Monday’s Commencement Exercises prompted President Krislov to cut his remarks short. Read what he planned to say to the Class of 2013.
2013 Commencement Address
May 28, 2013
Tracy Chevalier
“Since I’m a writer,” Tracy Chevalier ’84 told the members of the Class of 2013 in her Commencement address, “I’m going to give you advice in the form of five mantras about writing that I repeat to myself and that you can apply to the novel that is your life.”
Congratulations Class of 2013
May 27, 2013
Communications Staff
View a gallery of photos from Oberlin's 176th Commencement Exercises.More photos of Commencement and the entire Commencement/Reunion Weekend are on flickr .
Six Professors Retire from the Faculty
May 25, 2013
Communications Staff
Six professors—Mark Braford, Kathleen Chastain, John Donaldson, William H. Fuchsman, Jack Glazier, and Catherine McCormick—are retiring at the end of this academic year.