Undergraduate Research

Oberlin Lab Crawl

Discover research at Oberlin.

Students participating in Lab Crawl 2024
Photo credit: Amanda Phillips

The Oberlin College Lab Crawl is an annual open house that provides a fun and informal interaction with different research labs and opportunities around campus. The purpose of the lab crawl is to encourage students to seek out research on campus whether that be in labs, through honors, coursework, and/or volunteering. Lab Crawl gives students the opportunity to interact with research and opportunities on campus, through actual lab experiments, archive research, art practices, and everything in between.

 

Join us on October 30, 2026 from 12-1:30pm. 

Plan out your Lab Crawl

Locations of Lab Crawl stations across campus (Science Center, Wright, Severance, Carnegie, AMAM, King, AJLC, Mudd)

The 2026 Crawls that lead to prizes:

  • The Minor Crawl: visit 6 stations - Grab some pizza!
  • The Major Crawl: visit 12 stations across 3 different buildings - Get a special edition t-shirt OR tote (your choice!)
  • The Exploratory Crawl: visit 16 stations across any of the buildings - Earn a raffle entry for a fun prize bundle!

 

*Pizza and prizes will be located in the Science Center and the Art Museum

*Trinkets & Treasure will be handed out by most stations as part of Oberlin's Trick-or-Treat event

Research Stations

  • Allen Memorial Art Museum: Art History + AMAM Studio Art Hub | East Asian Studies | Oberlin Creative Music Lab | ParkArts Humanities Lab | Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship | Visions of Mexican Women | Oberlin Researches the Perception and Understanding of Sound (OPUS) Lab
  • AJLC: The Living Machine
  • Carnegie: Carnegie’s Fossil Collection (307) | Lab at Oberlin for Laser Ablation [LOLA] (304) | OSNAP - Oberlin’s Electronic Microscope (206) | Trace Fossils & Sedimentary Rocks Lab (414)
  • King: Sociology Department (303) | Critical Tech Lab (Rice 11)
  • Mudd
    • CELA Foyer, A-Level Stations: Center for Student Success | Micro Makerspace | Language Lab | Career Exploration and Development | The Bonner Center
    • Terrell Library, 2nd Floor Stations: Oberlin College Library Internships | College Archives | DigiLAB | Special Collections | The Letterpress Studio
  • Science Center: 
    • Labs: The Gaybe Lab (A129) | Population Ecology and Evolution Lab (A132) | Pike Lab (A138) | Howard Lab (A236) | Behavioral Pharmacology Lab (A242) | G. Kwakye Lab (A245) | Johnson Lab (A252) | L. Kwakye Lab (A257) | Sommer Lab (K104) | Plant Evolution Lab (K112) | Blatnik Lab (K211) | Peters Lab (K212) | A Physiological Lens on Muscle and Respiration (K214) | Alex Pike’s Lab (K217) | Shakir Lab (K225) | Ryno Lab (K282) | Belitsky Lab (N371) 
    • Perlik Commons Stations: Human-Computer Interaction Joint Reading Group | The Five Colleges of Ohio | Scientists Write Code! What Does it Look Like? | Safety in the Sciences | Geocouncil | Bio Majors Committee | (Bio)Chemistry Department | On Second Thought | Psych Major Committee | Research Ambassadors | The Synapse 
  • Severance: Teens Talking to Doctors | Power, Status, and Health Lab | Wu Research Team
  • Wright: Physics Machine Shop (004) | Ijiri Lab (017) | Stalnaker Lab (104) | ✨ Beyond What We See: Exploring the Cosmos through Physics, Code, and Art (208)