News
(Desert) Plants Are Cool, Too
March 11, 2014
Amanda Nagy
Associate Biology Professor Mike Moore shows the length that researchers will go to explore desert plant diversity.
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Our Shared History
March 10, 2014
Amanda Nagy
A group of students teamed up to create the History Lessons Project, a public story sharing effort and art installation that coincided with the recent convocation talk by United States Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey.
![Photograph of cards with text and images](https://www.oberlin.edu/sites/default/files/styles/fp_w360_h270/public/content/news/image/history_lessons_teaser_2-tanya_0.jpg?itok=hTKss-Sd)
An Exceptional Opportunity
March 7, 2014
Amanda Nagy
Two science students are picked for the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s undergraduate summer internship program.
Oberlin Takes Manhattan... and Cleveland and San Francisco
March 6, 2014
Amanda Nagy
Two whirlwind networking tours. Ten days with theater and performing arts alumni in New York. A month with business and finance alumni in three cities. A small investment, big dreams realized. This is how Oberlin does intensive.
![Two Oberlin alumni and one student](https://www.oberlin.edu/sites/default/files/styles/fp_w360_h270/public/content/news/image/kuhn-irwin-miller_0.jpg?itok=OPhZoOgH)
Envisioning Sustainability
March 4, 2014
James Helmsworth
Meghan Riesterer, the new head of Oberlin's Office of Environmental Sustainability, adds years of experience and expertise to Oberlin's commitment to the environment.
![Outside of AJLC in the winter](https://www.oberlin.edu/sites/default/files/styles/fp_w360_h270/public/content/news/image/ajl_winter-dp38_0.jpg?itok=eFjbVrmY)
Oberlin Names New Hotel and Conference Center in Honor of Peter B. Lewis
February 25, 2014
Communications Staff
Oberlin College will soon construct a state-of-the-art hotel, restaurant, and conference center that will be named in honor of Peter B. Lewis, the late philanthropist and chairman of Progressive Insurance Company.
![The new hotel and conference center on the corner of College and Lorain](https://www.oberlin.edu/sites/default/files/styles/fp_w360_h270/public/content/news/image/gateway_rendering_0.jpg?itok=kLeNwWAm)
Civil Rights, Then and Now
February 21, 2014
Amanda Nagy
Black History Month brought prominent civil rights leader James Lawson and anti-apartheid leader Allan Boesak to Oberlin’s campus.
![Protesters in front of the main library carry a banner that says Racism is Another Word for Apartheid.](https://www.oberlin.edu/sites/default/files/styles/fp_w360_h270/public/content/news/image/bhm_teaser_image_0.jpg?itok=vzeZkWNM)
Rooks of the Year
February 17, 2014
Phoebe Hammer
At just two years old, Oberlin's chess team is already proving a force to be reckoned with.
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New Leadership in College and Conservatory
February 13, 2014
Communications Staff
Oberlin's Board of Trustees has confirmed the appointment of two academic deans.
![Berries on a branch in front of stone arches and columns](https://www.oberlin.edu/sites/default/files/styles/fp_w360_h270/public/content/news/image/cox_detail_image_3.jpg?itok=flAt6yr7)
Another Side of Athletics
February 11, 2014
Phoebe Hammer
Oberlin athletes taking part in the conference’s Branch Rickey Mentor Program are gaining experience in athletics administration and making their voices heard.
![Oberlin’s Branch Rickey mentees](https://www.oberlin.edu/sites/default/files/styles/fp_w360_h270/public/content/news/image/branch_rickey_2_rs28818_branch4-lpr_0.jpg?itok=wvnr03sC)