News
A Conversation with Aaron Wolf ’11, Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Princeton University
Amanda Nagy
Wolf has focused his research on Neanderthal DNA and how it is distributed across global populations.
Bridging the Gap: Oberlin Students Develop Dialogue with Conservative Religious School
Amanda Nagy
Led by Simon Greer, a leading facilitator for social change work, students from both schools engaged in learning to build bridges across lines of difference.
A Conversation with Baron Pineda
Communications Staff
A cultural anthropologist specializing in human rights and indigenous peoples, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Latin American Studies Baron Pineda is one of seven scholars advising Facebook on the challenges of enforcing community standards.
Zola Barnes ’19 Awarded Newman Civic Fellowship
Amanda Nagy
The yearlong fellowship supports community service-minded students.
Sparking Interest in Sexual Health Education
Chloe Vassot
Just a few months after graduating, Tory Sparks ’17 has landed her dream job as a community outreach educator with Planned Parenthood. She’s stationed in the organization’s Washtenaw County location in Michigan, where she works with high schoolers.
Reunifying Oberlin’s Natural History Collection
Hillary Hempstead
Associate Professor of Anthropology Amy Margaris ’96 along with other faculty and staff members on campus are working to digitize the college’s many “dangling collections”—objects and specimens spread across various campus buildings that at one time had a home in the college’s natural history museum.
Mattea Koon '17 Receives USTA and Fulbright ETA Awards
Justine Goode
Mattea Koon accepted a USTA award to Austria. She was also selected for a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship in Germany.
Emma Baxter ’17 Awarded Fulbright ETA Fellowship in Taiwan
Justine Goode
Emma Baxter '17 will live and teach English in Taichung, Taiwan as a Fulbright scholar.