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Nobel Prize Winner Joshua D. Angrist ’82 to Deliver Commencement Address
Office of Communications
Nobel Prize winner and Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Joshua D. Angrist ’82 will deliver the keynote address for the Commencement ceremony honoring the Class of 2022.
Cassandra Gutterman-Johns Awarded Fulbright ETA to Czech Republic
Amanda Nagy
A theater and creative writing major, Gutterman-Johns hopes to learn more about teaching and pedagogy with the Fulbright program in the Czech Republic.
Watson Fellowship Winner to Explore Grief and Loss Across Cultures
Yvonne Gay
Molly Gleydura’s desire to understand the grieving process and gain strategies that will assist families with the loss of a child will take her to New Zealand, Senegal, El Salvador, and Ireland this summer on a Watson Fellowship.
Osama Abdelrahman ’23 Receives Davis Projects for Peace Award
Amanda Nagy
Osama Abdelrahman is expanding an organization he founded to connect Egypt's high school students with purposeful extracurricular activities.
Iesha-LaShay Phillips ’22 Awarded Full Scholarship to Yale Law School
Yvonne Gay
After earning full scholarships to nearly every law school she applied to, Iesha-LaShay Phillips ’22 has decided to pursue a fully funded law degree at Yale Law School in the fall.
Like Being a Kid Again (and Again)
Erich Burnett
Guggenheim Fellow Phyllis Chen ’99 finds creative joy in childhood instruments.
3 Oberlin Conservatory Alumni Win 2022 Guggenheim Fellowships
Erich Burnett
Annual awards support research or creative endeavors across a range of disciplines.
Winds Aloft
Erich Burnett
Theodosia Roussos AD ’16 takes flight as an oboist, composer, singer, and more.
Isabel Pfaff ’25 Illustrates Children’s Book
Myles McPartland ’24
Isabel Pfaff has always enjoyed creating artistic work, seeing it as an “escape from reality.” Now her artwork can be an escape for others.
Jane Sedlak ’19 Studies the Chemistry of Wildfire Smoke
Myles McPartland ’24
Jane Sedlak graduated from Oberlin College in 2019 with a degree in chemistry and was named the winner of Oberlin’s Nexial Prize. Given to a student who demonstrates academic excellence and an interest in cultural study, the Nexial Prize comes with a $50,000 award, which afforded Sedlak the opportunity following graduation to study art conservation at the Louvre in Paris.