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Creativity and Leadership is now the Center for Innovation and Impact

September 10, 2018

Communications Staff

We talked with Bara Watts, director of the Center for Innovation and Impact, about the change and what it means for the campus.

Entrepreneurial Thinking in the Innovation Economy

March 21, 2018

Amanda Nagy

Participants in LaunchU, Oberlin’s venture accelerator and pitch competition, gain career-building experience.

Six proud winners hold their award certificates

LaunchU Awards $37K in Startup Funding

March 14, 2018

Amanda Nagy

A panel of judges and investors select four ventures in the annual LaunchU pitch competition.

Former Oberlin double-degree student Gabe Pollack

Ace of Clubs

July 27, 2017

Samantha Spaccasi ’17

A circuitous route through Oberlin led directly to a dream job for Gabe Pollack ’11, who today manages a popular jazz club in the Cleveland area.

When in Rome...Make Music

June 1, 2017

Cathy Partlow Strauss '84

A student-formed ensemble enjoys high-profile gigs and a quest for deeper understanding.

A Voice for Women Migrant Workers

May 23, 2015

Amanda Nagy

First-year Dai Li receives a Davis Projects for Peace grant to empower China’s factory workers through a labor-focused Android app.

team member and rising junior Thomas Kreek with young students in New Delhi

Orange is the New Learning Tool

July 21, 2014

Rosalind Black

A team of students have partnered to bring technology-based education to rural India.

Lucid Visual

July 1, 2014

James Helmsworth

Now celebrating its tenth year in operation, Lucid Design, a resource monitoring company, reflects back on its roots in student-professor collaboration at Oberlin.

Hershkowitz presenting at the Pitch Competition

Keep Talking

May 22, 2014

James Helmsworth

At the final event for Oberlin's entrepreneurial initiative, LaunchU, participants gave presentations on why their projects deserved funding.

Adrian Rew ’13 surrounded by shelves full of LP records

Putting Tracks to Wax

August 2, 2013

James Helmsworth

Though new technology has revolutionized media consumption, recent graduate Adrian Rew has started a business using something far older—vinyl records.

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