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Benjamin Gilvar-Parke Awarded Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship in Colombia
May 17, 2019
Amanda Nagy
Gilvar-Parke is interested in learning about the country’s education system.
Catherine Lytle Awarded Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship in South Korea
May 17, 2019
Amanda Nagy
Catherine Lytle will spend the year teaching and making cultural connections.
Computer Science Majors Land Jobs At Google
April 19, 2019
Hillary Hempstead
Four Oberlin computer science majors have accepted jobs from the tech giant while still in their senior year.
Summer Institute on Scientific Teaching Offers Inclusive and Evidence-based Practices
September 12, 2018
Communications Staff
Ten faculty and staff were named Scientific Teaching Fellows by Yale Mobile Summer Institute on Scientific Teaching.
Beauty Amid the Brutality
August 31, 2018
Erich Burnett
Cross-campus collaboration celebrates artistic master works and hidden gems made in the shadow of WWI.
Christensen Named 2018 Guggenheim Fellow
April 9, 2018
Tyler Sloan '17
The John Simon Guggenheim Foundation named Associate Professor of Integrated Media Julia Christensen a 2018 Guggenheim Fellow.
Rethinking Sports as Scholarship
November 7, 2017
Tyler Sloan ’17
A new course this fall, Thirteen Ways of Looking at Sports, provides an innovative platform for students to talk about sports’ dynamic role in society.
The Astronomer is Here to Take Your Questions
October 18, 2017
Amanda Nagy
Assistant Professor Jillian Scudder has gained a following with public outreach on topics of space, astronomy, and astrophysics.
From Mentee to Colleague: Oberlin Mentorship Goes Above and Beyond
October 12, 2017
Tyler Sloan
Associate Professor of Africana studies Meredith Gadsby and her former student, Caitlin O’Neill ’11 participated in a panel about Afrofuturism during the "Exploring Beauty and Truth in Worlds of Color" conference at Oberlin.
Reunifying Oberlin’s Natural History Collection
August 29, 2017
Hillary Hempstead
Associate Professor of Anthropology Amy Margaris ’96 along with other faculty and staff members on campus are working to digitize the college’s many “dangling collections”—objects and specimens spread across various campus buildings that at one time had a home in the college’s natural history museum.
