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Presidential Scholar in Islamic Studies Mohammad Jafar Mahallati founded the Oberlin Friendship Festival.

New program founded by Liam McMillin ’17 places Oberlin College students as tutors in Oberlin High School.

Professor Emilia Bachrach began doing ethnographic work in Western India as an undergraduate student. In 2018, she is authoring multiple publications that continue her research on religious communities.

Fisher looks forward to teaching English at Gadjah Mada University and settling into his new home in Yogyakarta, Indonesia.

A religion major, Leiken will build on her past work with an oppressed group of Buddhists.

This fall, Ambre Dromgoole ’15 will be attending Yale Divinity School, as well as interning for Walker International Communications Group.

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

A new Ohio Historical Marker installed at the First Church in Oberlin, United Church of Christ, honors First Church and Antoinette Brown Blackwell, class of 1847, and the first woman ordained as a minister in the United States.