News
Students Show Mastery of Russian in Language Tournament
Amanda Nagy
Fourth-year Jennifer Bird and first-year Tori Ervin take top honors in Undergraduate Russian Olympiada.
Economics Team Finishes First in Competition
Owain Heyden
Three Oberlin students took home first place in the fourth annual Peoples Bank Undergraduate Business Case Competition this February.
Aaron Cohen Named YoungArts Merit Winner
Kasey Cheydleur
First-year student Aaron Cohen has been named a YoungArts Merit Winner in Photography by the National YoungArts Foundation.
Honors for Study Abroad
Amanda Nagy
Senior Shavonne Stanek receives an Undergraduate Research Award from the Forum on Education Abroad for her in-depth study of fishing practices in Zanzibar.
Oberlin Senior Named Rhodes Scholar
Amanda Nagy
Machmud Makhmudov, a politics major and environmental studies minor, will study in Oxford for the next two years.
Inventor Jay Whitacre '94 Earns Lemelson-MIT Science Prize
Kasey Cheydleur
Jay Whitacre ’94 has just received the $500K Lemelson-MIT Prize for his invention of a saltwater battery, which has the potential to revolutionize the way sustainable energy is stored.
Microscopic Worm Leads to Big Opportunity
Kasey Cheydleur
Gabriel Moore ’15 Receives Travel Award to Present Peters Lab Research at the 2015 C.elegans International Meeting in Los Angeles.
A Rising Star in African Entrepreneurship
Kasey Cheydleur
Kenyan international student and entrepreneur Sophie Umazi Mvurya ’16 has earned a place in the Stanford Africa MBA Fellowship Program.
Jennifer Jimenez '17 to Participate in Prestigious Amgen Scholars Program
Kasey Cheydleur
A third-year biology major, Jimenez will intern at the National Institutes of Health.
Monica Hunter-Hart '15 Receives Fulbright Grant to Turkey
Lisa Gulasy
Monica Hunter-Hart ’15 will help prepare students at Usak University for required standardized English exams.