News Collection
Engaged Liberal Arts in Action
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From Art History Major to Marketing Manager
A series of marketing internships and a willingness to be open to new ideas paid off for Jessica Moskowitz, who handles media planning and buying of social media ads for Microsoft.
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Winter Term Takes Obies Near and Far
Annual period of immersive study energizes Oberlin’s campus—and the far corners of the earth.
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Oberlin's Center for Engaged Liberal Arts Extends Learning Beyond the Classroom
Located in Mudd Center’s lower level, the new complex of inter-related programs promotes experiential learning and strategic career development.
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Marwan Ghanem '22 Receives Nexial Prize
Marwan Ghanem, a spring 2022 graduate with majors in biology and neuroscience, is this year’s winner of the Oberlin College Nexial Prize.
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Vera Grace Menafee Receives Ping Student Service Award
Menafee’s dedication to service-learning projects in a Cleveland urban garden has been recognized by the Ohio Campus Compact.
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Darielle Kennedy ’22 Enters Public Affairs Arena with Coro Fellowship
Darielle Kennedy says her coursework and leadership in Oberlin Student Senate has prepared her for her career journey.
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Watson Fellowship Winner to Explore Grief and Loss Across Cultures
Molly Gleydura’s desire to understand the grieving process and gain strategies that will assist families with the loss of a child will take her to New Zealand, Senegal, El Salvador, and Ireland this summer on a Watson Fellowship.
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Osama Abdelrahman ’23 Receives Davis Projects for Peace Award
Osama Abdelrahman is expanding an organization he founded to connect Egypt's high school students with purposeful extracurricular activities.
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Iesha-LaShay Phillips ’22 Awarded Full Scholarship to Yale Law School
After earning full scholarships to nearly every law school she applied to, Iesha-LaShay Phillips ’22 has decided to pursue a fully funded law degree at Yale Law School in the fall.
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Isabel Pfaff ’25 Illustrates Children’s Book
Isabel Pfaff has always enjoyed creating artistic work, seeing it as an “escape from reality.” Now her artwork can be an escape for others.
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Jane Sedlak ’19 Studies the Chemistry of Wildfire Smoke
Jane Sedlak graduated from Oberlin College in 2019 with a degree in chemistry and was named the winner of Oberlin’s Nexial Prize. Given to a student who demonstrates academic excellence and an interest in cultural study, the Nexial Prize comes with a $50,000 award, which afforded Sedlak the opportunity following graduation to study art conservation at the Louvre in Paris.
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The Pursuit of Research and Understanding How the Brain Works
David Shostak ’20, a native of San Francisco, played four years on the varsity soccer team and graduated with a major in biology, a concentration in cognitive science, and a minor in environmental science. For the past two years, he has worked at a neurobiology lab at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland. Read more in this After Oberlin Q&A.