News
Two Receive Goldwater Honorable Mention
May 8, 2013
Amanda Nagy, Liv Combe
Taylor Richard and Daniel Starer-Stor receive honorable mention in the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Program.
Rallying Around Comic Art
May 8, 2013
Madeleine O'Meara
The students behind the Comics Collective offer their peers a community in which to practice drawing, get their work published, or share their favorite comics.
Junior Wins Udall Scholarship
May 6, 2013
Amanda Nagy
Junior Rachel Manning has received a 2013 Udall Scholarship.
The First Weekend in May
May 6, 2013
Communications Staff
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.
Senior Wins Grand Award
May 3, 2013
Liv Combe
Matthew Gallagher has won the Grand Award for Excellence in the Visual Arts from the Association of Independent Colleges and Universities of Ohio.
Kenya Reads Wins Support
May 2, 2013
Amanda Nagy
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.
NSF Recognizes Seniors
April 29, 2013
Amanda Nagy
Margaret Nichols has won a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, and Adam Birdsall has received honorable mention.
Taking On Human Trafficking
April 24, 2013
Amanda Nagy
What can $30, 20 carabiners, and 10 days do to help stop human trafficking?
Celebrating 100 Years of Economics at Oberlin
April 19, 2013
Amanda Nagy
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.
Language Learning Across the Curriculum
April 17, 2013
Liv Combe
In cross-disciplinary courses, professors are using knowledge of foreign languages to take students’ learning of history, politics, and culture to a deeper level.