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Oberlin Homecoming Set for Sep. 29-Oct. 1
Communications Staff
Homecoming 2023 at Oberlin will feature the weekend’s favorite traditions—plus a host of new experiences that highlight our bustling campus in autumn: tours, talks, music, celebrations of all kinds
In the Path of Disaster
Tyler Applegate
Monica Dix travels to a hub of natural calamity to probe its risks and resilience.
Class Reunions—and Illumination—Coming to Fall
Office of Communications
Popular tradition to be a centerpiece of expanded Homecoming festivities.
Feels on Wheels
G.M. Donley ’83
“I’m embarrassed to admit it, but it was a huge relief,” he recalls. “I hated riding that thing.”
In his fourth year, Bisker inherited a broken-down family bike that had been sitting in a garage in
Lighting the Way
Maura Johnston
Tony Award-winning lighting designer Natasha Katz ’81 first found her spark at Oberlin.
Rhiannon Giddens ’00 Wins 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Music
Annie Zaleski
Singer, multi-instrumentalist, and composer honored for the historical opera Omar.
‘Rainbow’ Connections
Tyler Applegate
Amara Granderson’s visions of Broadway came into focus on the stages of Oberlin.
Melissa Fleming ’86, Head of Communications for the United Nations, Returns for April 10 Talk
Office of Communications
Melissa Fleming, the Under-Secretary-General for Global Communications at the United Nations and a 1986 graduate of Oberlin College, will return to her alma mater to discuss her career and her Oberlin
Johnnetta B. Cole ’57 Honored by National Endowment for the Humanities
Annie Zaleski
Anthropologist and educator celebrated by President Biden in White House ceremony.
Kiese Laymon ’98 Earns MacArthur Foundation Honor for 2022
Erich Burnett
Author and educator elevates nuances of the Black experience—and his own experience—through acclaimed works of fiction and nonfiction.