News
Raptor Watch
September 28, 2015
Kasey Cheydleur
Steph Szarmach ’15 looks to the San Francisco Bay Area skies to gain field biology experience.
![Steph Szarmach ’15 holding a Northern Harrier](https://www.oberlin.edu/sites/default/files/styles/fp_w360_h270/public/content/news/image/dscn3900_1_0.jpg?itok=2TTPIOPB)
Inventor Jay Whitacre '94 Earns Lemelson-MIT Science Prize
September 15, 2015
Kasey Cheydleur
Jay Whitacre ’94 has just received the $500K Lemelson-MIT Prize for his invention of a saltwater battery, which has the potential to revolutionize the way sustainable energy is stored.
![A man in a large workshop wears safety goggles and a white dress shirt. Behind him are two workers and a metal cage containing an apparatus.](https://www.oberlin.edu/sites/default/files/styles/fp_w360_h270/public/content/news/image/whitacre_press_photo_3_cropped_0.jpg?itok=CpLuGa1m)
Uniting a Love of Music and Religion
August 20, 2015
Kasey Cheydleur
This fall, Ambre Dromgoole ’15 will be attending Yale Divinity School, as well as interning for Walker International Communications Group.
![Ambre Dromgoole ’15 with her parents](https://www.oberlin.edu/sites/default/files/styles/fp_w360_h270/public/content/news/image/img_5711_0.jpg?itok=Ot2wKlO0)
Translating More Than Words
August 20, 2015
Kasey Cheydleur
Annie Valocchi ’15 is spending her summer at Spannocchia, an organic farm and bread and breakfast near Siena, Italy, before she begins teaching English at an Italian high school this fall.
![Aerial view of a village](https://www.oberlin.edu/sites/default/files/styles/fp_w360_h270/public/content/news/image/img_1270_0.jpg?itok=9QFm0qYH)
Writing with Purpose
August 20, 2015
Kasey Cheydleur
Nicholas Olson ’15 is spending his summer working for POZ magazine before beginning a master’s program in public policy at the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin.
![Nicholas Olson ’15](https://www.oberlin.edu/sites/default/files/styles/fp_w360_h270/public/content/news/image/11850560_10208111003238599_329243252672493660_o_0.jpg?itok=N3zX95rv)
Lifelong Cooperation
March 18, 2015
Sky Kalfus
From Rhode Island to Chicago to California, Oberlin students are applying their OSCA training to a different breed of co-op.
![Group of people seated in a circle playing music with an acoustic guitar and djembe drums.](https://www.oberlin.edu/sites/default/files/styles/fp_w360_h270/public/content/news/image/alice_liu_0.jpg?itok=1SKk3mhx)
Historical Marker Honors Oberlin Group
January 12, 2015
Amanda Nagy
Fifty years ago, a team of Oberlin students and faculty helped rebuild a Mississippi church destroyed by fire following a voting rights rally. Their effort has been recognized with a historical marker on Mississippi's Freedom Trail.
![Man rebuilding the steeple of a church](https://www.oberlin.edu/sites/default/files/styles/fp_w360_h270/public/content/news/image/2013-06-carpenters-crop_0.jpg?itok=FhGzafHl)
A Judge for Change
December 29, 2014
Rosalind Black
Amy Dawson ’89 learned her son had autism when he was 3 years old. In response, she founded the Autism Advocacy & Law Center, and recently won a seat in the Fourth Judicial District of Hennepin County in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
![Amy Dawson](https://www.oberlin.edu/sites/default/files/styles/fp_w360_h270/public/content/news/image/amy_dawson_2014_recrop.jpg?itok=Li94bGOS)
Labor of Love
November 17, 2014
Rosalind Black
Once a politics and history major, John Kallas ’14 goes from studying contemporary American union strategy to practicing it on the streets of Cleveland.
![John Kallas ’14](https://www.oberlin.edu/sites/default/files/styles/fp_w360_h270/public/content/news/image/john_0.jpeg?itok=QgkzQ-gG)
Seeing Results
November 17, 2014
Rosalind Black
Rachel Marino ’13 applies her research to education programs at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, making art-based education more accessible to students and teachers alike.
![Rachel Marino ’13 posed with art](https://www.oberlin.edu/sites/default/files/styles/fp_w360_h270/public/content/news/image/rachelmarino_0.jpg?itok=Y5TaOL9t)