News
From Oberlin College to Goldman Sachs
May 16, 2024
Communications Staff
Anna Silverman ’22 has made a remarkable leap, from Oberlin to the investment banking firm Goldman Sachs.
![Anna Silverman Young girl standing near a shrub](https://www.oberlin.edu/sites/default/files/styles/fp_w360_h270/public/content/news/image/img_1707_3.jpg?itok=n5r9d28a)
Oberlin Musicians Collaborate at California’s Hidden Valley Institute
February 1, 2024
Communications Staff
Winter Term projects culminate in performances involving TIMARA, dance, chamber music, and jazz.
![Hidden Valley An aerial shot of Hidden Valley, California.](https://www.oberlin.edu/sites/default/files/styles/fp_w360_h270/public/content/news/image/oberlin_232.jpg?itok=SUKz3zLA)
Survivor Mentality
May 16, 2023
Grant Segall
Emma Hart traverses the globe to stem the tide of gender-based violence.
![Emma Hart.](https://www.oberlin.edu/sites/default/files/styles/fp_w360_h270/public/content/news/image/emmahart_by_tanya_rosen-jones_97.jpg?itok=PjAH4tvv)
Vera Grace Menafee Receives Ping Student Service Award
July 12, 2022
Amanda Nagy
Menafee’s dedication to service-learning projects in a Cleveland urban garden has been recognized by the Ohio Campus Compact.
![Vera Grace Menafee portrait Vera Grace Menafee.](https://www.oberlin.edu/sites/default/files/styles/fp_w360_h270/public/content/news/images-2022/veragracemenafee-trj.jpg?itok=aiW2YAJj)
Dance, Creative Writing Faculty Members Receive Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Awards
March 14, 2022
Amanda Nagy
The awards are peer recognition of an artist's body of work, and support artists' growth and development in Ohio and beyond.
![Warner Concert Hall. The reflecting pool outside of Warner Concert Hall.](https://www.oberlin.edu/sites/default/files/styles/fp_w360_h270/public/content/news/images-2022/warner_concert_wide_news-yevhen.jpg?itok=OUjg3hBc)
Oberlin Dance Department Celebrates 50 Years of Contact Improv
March 9, 2022
Amanda Nagy
Critical Mass: CI@50 honors the past, present, and future of Contact Improvisation, as well as Oberlin's history in developing and studying the dance form.
![Contact Improv Winter Term Dancers performing.](https://www.oberlin.edu/sites/default/files/styles/fp_w360_h270/public/content/news/image/contact_improv_wt_news-clarissa_heart.jpg?itok=7rLMpBV3)
Second-Year Emma Hart Coauthors COVID-19 Vaccine Issue Brief
May 3, 2021
Jaimie Yue '22
As part of Oberlin’s three-semester plan for 2020-2021, second-year students participated in a monthlong winter term SOAR retreat and had the opportunity to pursue micro-internships or research...
![Emma Hart Portrait of a girl sitting under trees.](https://www.oberlin.edu/sites/default/files/styles/fp_w360_h270/public/content/news/image/emma_hart.jpg?itok=8fyoxUZj)
Moving Bodies and Social Justice
February 16, 2021
Scott Wargo
Oberlin College and the Five Colleges of Ohio present “Moving Bodies and Social Justice,” a series of virtual presentations and workshops developed to explore new curricula and pedagogical approaches that will engage all bodies who want to move within dance communities.
![Six dancers perform contemporary group movement](https://www.oberlin.edu/sites/default/files/styles/fp_w360_h270/public/content/news/image/springback.johnseyfried.jpg?itok=eLEmdnkO)
Three Oberlin faculty members receive Ohio Arts Council Excellence Awards
February 28, 2020
Kyra McConnell ’22
Three Oberlin faculty members have been awarded individual grants from the Ohio Arts Council to continue their creative projects.
![Arts Council logo Ohio Arts Council logo.](https://www.oberlin.edu/sites/default/files/styles/fp_w360_h270/public/content/news/image/oac_full-color-rgb-logo-resized.png?itok=HHKOuA48)
This Week in Photos: January 22
January 22, 2020
Yvonne Gay
In this photo series, we explore the art of cinema storytelling; go to an entrepreneurial boot camp; get intense with strings and Greek; go back to high school in Berkeley; stop by the freezer section in Kim’s Grocery & Carryout; get involved with dark matter; learn R for SPSS; join a dance class; design an archeological exhibit; get cozy with a wild beast; and much more.
![Photo by John Seyfried A an stands in front of a movie screen with the words of the screen on his face and body.](https://www.oberlin.edu/sites/default/files/styles/fp_w360_h270/public/content/news/images-2020/obiewood.johns.jpg?itok=9xGgwy22)