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Students to Curatorial Assistants: Ava Prince ’18 and Emma Laube ’17
Erin Ulrich ’18
In their first post-grad jobs, Emma Laube ’17 and Ava Prince ’18 are working as curatorial assistants in the Allen Memorial Art Museum.
Number of Truman Scholarship Recipients Highlights Commitment to Service
Hillary Hempstead
Among liberal arts institutions, Oberlin ranks third in the number of Truman Scholarship recipients.
Amidst Fiction, Worlds Collide
Erin Ulrich ’18
The Creative Writing Program, along with Alumni in Service to Oberlin College, brought together Thisbe Nissen ’94 and Visiting Assistant Professor of Creative Writing Abbey Mei Otis ’11 to present their latest fiction writing to current students.
Studio Art: Pathways From Classroom to Career
Erin Ulrich ’18
Pathways: Studio Art is demystifying stereotypes of studio art graduates by bringing in alums from diverse career fields to present their work to current students.
Pulitzer Prize-Winning Composer George Walker ’41 dies at 96
Erich Burnett
Groundbreaking career in performance, composition, and teaching included many firsts among black musicians.
Singer Turned Lab Manager
Erin Ulrich ’18
Elayne Zhou ’18, a psychology major and Hispanic studies minor at Oberlin, wants to make the world a better place by encouraging people to take seriously the importance of mental health.
Lost in Translation
Oberlin Alumni Magazine
Oberlin alumni science writers took part in the symposium "Translating Science" in September, sharing with students their advice on science writing and related careers.
Learning and Laboratory
Communications Staff
Oberlin punches well above its weight in the sciences, as a recent symposium featuring alumni members of the National Academy of Sciences proves.
Obies Take SXSW by Storm
Justine Goode
More than a dozen Oberlin alumni, as well as two current students, made appearances at this year’s South by Southwest (SXSW) in Austin, Texas, including an improviser whose sidekick is a robot with an iPad for a face, a vocalist and bassist for a punk rock band who just turned 21, and a former editor of the Washington Post now exploring the intersection of virtual reality and journalism.
Chemistry and Conservation
Lilah Drafts-Johnson
Noalle Fellah ’16 is combining her passion for art history and chemistry as she pursues a PhD at New York University.