Awards and Honors

Annelise Giseburt ’16 has been selected as the first-ever recipient of the Shansi Hiroshima Fellowship.

Meghan Mette ’16 says she hopes her time abroad will help her become fluent in German and afford her opportunities to volunteer with the Syrian refugee crisis.

Henry Aberle ’16 has been awarded a Shansi Fellowship to teach English at J.F. Oberlin University in Japan.

A sociology major, Moncure looks forward to gaining a global perspective in a non-Western culture.

Fisher looks forward to teaching English at Gadjah Mada University and settling into his new home in Yogyakarta, Indonesia.

Aaron Pressman and Yasmine Ramachandra took home first place at the 2016 Bowling Green State University Game of Rounds speech competition in the parliamentary debate category.

Fourth-year Jennifer Bird and first-year Tori Ervin take top honors in Undergraduate Russian Olympiada.

Three Oberlin students took home first place in the fourth annual Peoples Bank Undergraduate Business Case Competition this February.

Six faculty members from the College of Arts and Sciences and the Conservatory of Music received the Excellence in Teaching Award for the 2014-2015 academic year. The recipients were Associate Professor of Mathematics Jack Calcut; Professor of Hispanic Studies Sebastiaan Faber; Professor of Piano James Howsmon; Director of the Division of Conducting and Ensembles, Associate Professor of Conducting, and Director of the Oberlin Orchestra Raphael Jiménez; Professor of Comparative American Studies Gina Pérez; and Associate Professor of Jazz Studies Daniel Wall.

First-year student Aaron Cohen has been named a YoungArts Merit Winner in Photography by the National YoungArts Foundation.

Senior Shavonne Stanek receives an Undergraduate Research Award from the Forum on Education Abroad for her in-depth study of fishing practices in Zanzibar.

Prestigious honor will support two years of graduate study in the United Kingdom following completion of a double degree.