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Third-year geology student Angela Kwon went to the Philippines to study the environmental effects of waste from the country’s largest gold mine.

For the club sport team The Plague, the ice is a venue where students, faculty, and staff can interact as equals on a regular basis.

The Creativity & Leadership Project is sponsoring the first LaunchU program, three intensive weeks that accelerate and encourage the development of Oberlin entrepreneurs.

Jena Mauldin is taking part in the Recovering Voices project, a Smithsonian-led initiative that documents and preserves endangered languages around the world.

What are liberal arts students doing in the finance industry? For Obies, it’s serious business.

The work of students, faculty, and theater professionals culminates with an original play produced in partnership with Cleveland Public Theatre.

Back from training with athletes on three continents, Joanna Johnson ’11 has learned a thing or two about what motivates people to run — including herself.

Oberlin boasts a long history of recycling, but two groups take special pride in creating new things from the old.

Leonardo Colafelice, a 16-year-old pianist from Altamura, Bari, Italy, is the first-prize winner of the 2012 Thomas and Evon Cooper International Competition. His stellar performance of Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No. 3 in D Minor, Op. 30, with Jahja Ling conducting The Cleveland Orchestra in Severance Hall on Friday, July 27, brought him the top prize of $10,000, one of the largest awards offered by an international youth competition. The prize includes concert engagements with orchestras in Beijing and Shanghai, China, and a full, four-year scholarship to the Oberlin Conservatory of Music.

The top three finalists of the 2012 Cooper International Piano Competition have been selected to advance to the concerto finals round with The Cleveland Orchestra on Friday, July 27 at 8 pm in Severance Hall. Leonardo Colafelice, 16, from Altamura, Bari, Italy; Xiaoyu Liu, 15, from Montreal, Quebec, Canada; and Micah McLaurin, 17, from Charleston, South Carolina, were chosen Wednesday, July 25, at the conclusion of the competition’s recital finals round at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music. For tickets to the final round call 800-686-1141 or visit www.clevelandorchestra.com.