News Stories
Sophomore Brings Chapter of Nonprofit Organization to Campus
Liv Combe - May 14, 2013
Having found a passion for activism and women’s issues when she was in middle school, sophomore Sophie Ottoni-Wilhelm hopes to share that focus with her Oberlin peers through an on-campus chapter of the New Community Project, a small nonprofit for which she serves on the board.
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Students Docents Guide Community Through Allen Memorial Art Museum
Elizabeth Kuhr - May 09, 2013
Thanks to a two-decades-old docent program, local schoolchildren can explore the treasures of the AMAM with the help and guidance of Oberlin students.
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Student Collective Rallies Around Comic Art
Madeleine O’Meara - May 08, 2013
Inspired to organize after taking a class on graphic narratives, the students behind the Oberlin Comics Collective offer their peers a community in which they can practice drawing, get their work published in zines and online, or share their favorite comics.
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Liver Transplant Recipient to Perform Benefit Concert for Cleveland Clinic
May 08, 2013
On Saturday, May 11 at 8 p.m. a group of Oberlin Conservatory faculty, students, and alumni, along with members of the baroque orchestra Apollo’s Fire, will give a benefit concert for the liver transplant program at the Cleveland Clinic. The impetus for the concert comes from Oberlin Professor of Recorder and Baroque Flute Michael Lynn, who received a liver in a transplant operation at the Cleveland Clinic last fall. In appreciation of the clinic’s work, he has organized this benefit concert, which will take place in the Gartner Auditorium at the Cleveland Museum of Art.
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Kenya Reads Wins Support from Projects for Peace, Dalai Lama Fellows
Amanda Nagy - May 02, 2013
The leaders of Kenya Reads, a literacy initiative that established the first-ever community library in an impoverished district in central Kenya, have been awarded more than $20,000 in combined grants to sustain their work.
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Novelist Tracy Chevalier ’84 to Deliver Commencement Address
May 01, 2013
Oberlin’s 2013 Commencement/Reunion Weekend activities will be May 24 to May 27. The 176th Commencement exercises will take place on Monday, May 27, on Tappan Square. This year’s Commencement speaker is novelist Tracy Chevalier ’84, author of the bestselling book Girl with a Pearl Earring (1999) and the just released The Last Runaway (2013). She also will receive an Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts. The Baccalaureate speaker is Tarunjit Singh Butalia, current Secretary General of the World Sikh Council-America Region and the Moderator of Religions for Peace-USA.
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Fourth Annual Senior Symposium Celebrates Scholarly Achievements of Graduating Class
Liv Combe - April 24, 2013
On April 26, the Senior Symposium, an annual celebration of the academic and artistic accomplishments of members of the graduating class, will take place in the Science Center from 1 to 5 p.m. For the past four years, the symposium has been held at the end of spring semester to showcase seniors’ scholarly achievements.
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Student Group Uses Social Entrepreneurship to Take On Human Trafficking
Amanda Nagy - April 24, 2013
What can $30, 20 carabiners, and 10 days do for social change? A group of like-minded students hope it will challenge their peers to learn about a complex global issue—human trafficking—and flex their entrepreneurial muscles by implementing small for-profit ventures.
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'Learning & Labor' Celebrates 100 Years of Economics at Oberlin
Amanda Nagy - April 19, 2013
The country’s top economists, including several generations of alumni, will come together for two days of presentations and discussions on April 26 and 27. The event will mark three milestones — the 100th anniversary of the economics major at Oberlin, the 70th anniversary of the graduation of Albert Rees ’43, and the 50th year of Professor Hirschel Kasper’s teaching at Oberlin.
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Piazzolla’s bandoneón player to perform at Oberlin
Logan Buckley '14 - April 18, 2013
Renowned tango musicians Cristina Pérsico, singer, Daniel Binelli, bandoneón, and Polly Ferman, piano, will present an evening of intimate tango on Friday, April 26 in Clonick Hall in the Kohl Building beginning at 8:00 pm. Admission is free and open to the public.
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