News Collection
Awards and Honors
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Three Truman Scholarship Finalists Named
Third-years Sadie Keller, Kieran Minor, and Meg Parker have been named finalists for the Harry S. Truman Scholarship, the premier graduate scholarship for aspiring public service leaders in the United States.
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Nyquon Watson ’18 Named AICUO Award Finalist
Nyquon Watson ’18 is one of six artists who will compete for the Association of Independent Colleges and Universities’ Grand Award for excellence in the visual arts this spring.
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Holly Hoang Awarded Fulbright ETA in South Korea
Holly Hoang, a history major from Ellicott City, Maryland, has received a yearlong Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship in South Korea. Hoang will be living and working in the country beginning in July 2017.
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Imagining a New School Through the Woodrow Wilson Academy Design Fellowship
Xavier Tirado ’17, a biology and sociology double major, and Jason Heitler-Klevans ‘17, a physics major, have both received Woodrow Wilson Academy Design Fellowships. The pair will play a central role...
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Twenty-seven Obies Garner Awards
Twenty-seven Oberlin students received scholarships and fellowships during the 2016-2017 academic year in fields ranging from language study to musical performance to STEM research.
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Sophie Davis ’16 Awarded Fulbright in Interdisciplinary Studies
Davis will explore the environment and play the violin in Samoa's capital city of Apia.
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Around the World with a Watson Fellowship
May 2017 graduates Kirk Pearson (on right) will explore invented instruments, while Paulus Van Horne will study the effects of noise in megacities.
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Davíd Zager Receives Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship in Brazil
Zager gained knowledge of Portuguese language and Capoeira Angola at Oberlin.
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Lindsay Brubaker ’19 Awarded State Department Critical Language Study in Japan
The second-year student will study Japanese in Hikone, Japan.
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Kiela Nelson ’18 Receives Gilman Scholarship to Study Abroad in Senegal
Kiela Nelson ’18 will travel to Senegal to study African culture and performance.
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Briana Santiago Awarded Congress-Bundestag Scholarship for Young Professionals
Briana Santiago '17 will travel to Germany to study language and business.
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Oliver Okun Awarded Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship in Russia
Okun hopes to improve his teaching skills and learn what life is like for the Russian people.