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Recording showcases faculty composers and the Oberlin Contemporary Music Ensemble.

More than 100 town and college members picked up artists' brushes and applied their painting skills to a 32-foot mural in Carpenter Court late last month during Community Paint Day. The result is an expressive collage that the organizer of the project hopes will fill passersby with Oberlin pride.

After several life-changing experiences at an early age, Jasmine Wilkerson ’23 decided to pursue a medical degree so she can perform crucial surgeries through medical missions abroad.

Peterson will lead and create programming that helps faculty and staff connect teaching, learning, and scholarship in a residential liberal arts setting.

Oakland Symphony music director championed lesser-known repertoire, emphasized the orchestra’s role in the community.

After a year of virtual learning in the Oberlin City Schools, The Bonner Center for Community-Engaged Learning, Teaching, and Research Education Program is sponsoring an engaging, in-person summer education program, led by America Reads and America Counts tutors who are on campus for Oberlin’s summer semester. 

Yemko Pryor ’17, a PhD student at Emory University, has a long-term career goal that might one day help society scientifically understand the effects of racism and slavery on Black bodies.

A collaboration with an Alaska Native activist leads to a widely accessible digital exhibition, and breathes new life into a nearly forgotten collection of cultural items kept at Oberlin for more than a century. 

Cinema Studies alumni Drew Dickler and Jake Hochendoner are codirectors of a documentary that tells the story of incarcerated men who are fighting the deadliest and largest fires in California's recent history. The film was released on VOD on August 3. 

Free, family-friendly celebration features performances, sample lessons, and activities.