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Finding a Calling in Oberlin's Writing Associates Program
February 23, 2023
Ava Miller '25
After graduating from Oberlin in 2022, Ryo Adachi began a full-time position in Oberlin’s Writing Associates Program.
Oberlin a Top Producer of Fulbright Students for 2022-23
February 20, 2023
G.M. Donley
Honor marks 14th consecutive year of recognition by the prestigious exchange program.
Trailblazing Musician Wu Man in Residence at Oberlin
February 20, 2023
Cathy Partlow Strauss
Wu Man, recognized as the world’s premier pipa virtuoso and a leading ambassador of Chinese music, will be in residence at Oberlin February 24-25 and take part in three events across campus that culminate in a concert with Oberlin College quartet-in-residence, the Verona Quartet .
Conducting at Oberlin
February 17, 2023
Joshua Reinier
When Maurice Cohn ’17 stepped off the plane to conduct the Cincinnati Symphony, he had only a few days to prepare. Strikes in France had grounded the orchestra’s regular maestro, Louis...
John Lewis Talks Jazz
January 24, 2023
Oberlin Alumni Magazine
John Lewis of the Modern Jazz Quartet talks jazz and more in a 1956 radio interview with Jim Neumann ’58, host of “Jazz Hot and Cool!” on WOBC.
Meet Joe Smith
January 24, 2023
Oberlin Alumni Magazine Staff
Joe Smith ’86 learned to meet people through his love of photography. As an Oberlin student in the 1980s, he took hundreds of images that capture—through mostly straight-ahead portraits—the look of an era, and sometimes more.
On the Record with Rhiannon Giddens ’00
January 24, 2023
Oberlin Alumni Magazine
Rhiannon Giddens began 2022 with a starring role in Porgy and Bess, the iconic Gershwin opera often criticized for its derogatory depictions of Black characters. The widely hailed production...
Rhiannon Giddens’ American Tunes
January 24, 2023
Jeff Hagan ’86
A 2000 graduate of Oberlin, Giddens was trained as an opera singer under Marlene Rosen, and so the opera part is easy to understand. But it was after she returned home to North Carolina that she took...
Still Hot, Still Cool
January 24, 2023
Erich Burnett
To some, jazz signaled a decadent departure from the European masters who had inspired the work of conservatory faculty and students for more than a century. But there were also students smitten by...
Renovations to Historic Wilder Hall Beginning in January
January 12, 2023
Office of Communications
A multi-year capital improvement plan to upgrade Oberlin’s Student Union is officially underway, with work beginning during Winter Term 2023. Wilder Hall, designed by Chicago architect Joseph Lyman Silsbee—designer of the Memorial Arch on Tappan Square—opened in 1911 as a men’s dormitory. In addition to providing housing for undergraduate men, the building was conceived as a meeting and performance place, and has evolved over time into Oberlin’s Student Union.