Awards and Honors

Taiyo Scanlon-Kimura ’15 will study regional food systems as drivers of local economies in Japan.

Emily Wilkerson ’15, a comparative literature and German double-major, starts her teaching assistantship at a school in Lower Saxony in September.

Politics major Machmud Makhmudov receives prestigious Truman Scholarship for graduate studies in public service.

Recent graduates embark on a year of independent study outside the United States as winners of the prestigious Watson Fellowship.

Politics and creative writing double-major and economics minor Saksham Khosla ’15 has been awarded a Carnegie Junior Fellowship in the South Asian Program.

Geno Arthur ’16, Carey Lyons ’15, and Monique Newton ’18 competed in the NCAA Division III Indoor Track & Field Championships March 13-14. Arthur claimed his second All-America honor of the school...

Four Oberlin students earned awards at the 5th annual Undergraduate Olympiada of Spoken Russian at Kent State University on Saturday, February 28. At the advanced level, William Watkins and Andrew...

Five faculty members from the College of Arts & Sciences and the Conservatory of Music received the Excellence in Teaching Award for the 2013-2014 academic year. The recipients were Associate Professor of English Jennifer Bryan; Professor of Pianoforte Sanford Margolis; Paul Sears Distinguished Professor of Environmental Studies John Petersen; Professor of Chemistry Robert Thompson; and Professor of Conducting Tim Weiss.

Zoë Madonna, a senior East Asian studies major, earned a grand prize of $10,000 at the 2014 Rubin Institute for Music Criticism, a five-day, invitation-only competition held in November at the San...

Oberlin College earned a place on the 2014 President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll with Distinction in the Interfaith Community Service category and secured a place on the Honor Roll in both the General Community Service and Education categories. This is the eighth consecutive year Oberlin College has received the honor.

Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake '92 was among several distinguished alumni who returned to campus in November to celebrate the 20th Anniversary of the Oberlin Initiative in Electoral Politics...