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At the 17th annual Oberlin Folk Festival, Oberlin’s rich folk history continues as Oberlin students and local acts share a bill with acclaimed headliners.

Baritone Jason Goldberg '16 turned his love of opera into an individual major in directing.

Collaboration establishes North American home for the venerated Italian program for elite student pianists.

Taiyo Scanlon-Kimura ’15 will study regional food systems as drivers of local economies in Japan.

Emily Wilkerson ’15, a comparative literature and German double-major, starts her teaching assistantship at a school in Lower Saxony in September.

Politics major Machmud Makhmudov receives prestigious Truman Scholarship for graduate studies in public service.

For her Dalai Lama Fellowship, junior Emma Leiken will create an arts program in Chiplun, a town in Maharashtra, India.

Oberlin's slam poetry club, OSlam!, sent a competitive team to Richmond, Virginia, to compete in the College Union Poetry Slam Invitational (CUPSI). The team placed 16th out of 68 competitors, beating its personal record from the previous year.

The First Lady will visit Oberlin as part of her Reach Higher initiative.

A team of students led by Professor Janet Fiskio conduct research for a Gulf Coast community founded by the last ship of enslaved peoples brought from Africa to the United States.