Oberlin Alumni Magazine

Your new magazine editor brings an unapologetic love of ’80s rock—and an incurable passion for storytelling.

The research of Darrin Schultz ’13 deepens our insights into animal evolution.

Jamie Graves fell in love with the world of Japanese beverages. He’d love to tell you why.

Despite its cheeky name, Tight Lipped has serious plans to address vulvovaginal pain.

Music and math brought Alina Zhu to Oberlin. An irresistible challenge defined her final year on campus.

For generations of students, the big game at Oberlin meant big campus spirit too.

According to the cookie recipe tacked to a wall of the Cat in the Cream, one tablespoon of molasses can be substituted for one cup of sugar. But when Hillel Hinton-Williams is working at Oberlin’s

“I’m embarrassed to admit it, but it was a huge relief,” he recalls. “I hated riding that thing.”

In his fourth year, Bisker inherited a broken-down family bike that had been sitting in a garage in

Oberlin creatives have the talent to make it in Hollywood. Now they have the network too. 

John Lewis of the Modern Jazz Quartet talks jazz and more in a 1956 radio interview with Jim Neumann ’58, host of “Jazz Hot and Cool!” on WOBC.