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Oberlinians know how to celebrate the month of May, ushering it in with a weekend of festivities and closing it with the biggest party of all—Commencement/Reunion Weekend. This year's opening revels on May 3, 4, and 5 went off without a hitch.

Matthew Gallagher has won the Grand Award for Excellence in the Visual Arts from the Association of Independent Colleges and Universities of Ohio.

The leaders of Kenya Reads, a literacy initiative that established the first-ever community library in an impoverished area of Kenya, have received more than $20,000 to sustain their work.

Margaret Nichols has won a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, and Adam Birdsall has received honorable mention.

What can $30, 20 carabiners, and 10 days do to help stop human trafficking?

The country’s top economists will come together in April to mark three milestones — the 100th anniversary of the economics major at Oberlin, the 70th anniversary of the graduation of Albert Rees ’43, and the 50th year of Professor Hirschel Kasper’s teaching at Oberlin.

In cross-disciplinary courses, professors are using knowledge of foreign languages to take students’ learning of history, politics, and culture to a deeper level.

Study away doesn’t have to take place in another country. In the southwest borderlands, Oberlin students are learning more about themselves and their own country than they could have anticipated.

Assistant Professor of Art History Sarah Hamill has been awarded a 2013 Collaborative Research Fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies. Hamill will co-author a study of the role of photography in shaping modern conceptions of art and history.

Gail Schwieterman will spend a year investigating conservation efforts to curb the overfishing of sharks and other marine life as a 2013-14 Watson Fellow.