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Experience the Eclipse with Oberlin: April 8, 2024
Experience Totality with the Office of Alumni Engagement! We have put together a collection of resources to help Obies around the globe experience the last total eclipse viewable over the Continental U.S. for more than two decades.
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View the alumni hub for all things eclipse:
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- CHECK IN from anywhere across the globe using our interactive eclipse map.
- LISTEN to our eclipse playlist—by Obies, for Obies. Keep an eye on the Alumni Digital Community to make a song request!
- PLAY Bingo for a chance to win an eclipse-themed raffle basket with items from local Oberlin shops.
Calling all local Obies! Oberlin College is hosting a cosmic celebration: Oclipse 2024! Navigate to the event hub to plan your visit to campus on April 8.
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New Episode of Running to the Noise Featuring Filmmaker Shane Boris
In this month’s episode of Running to the Noise, President Carmen Twillie Ambar talks with Shane Boris ’04, producer of the Oscar-winning documentary Navalny, about staying under Putin’s radar, volcanic love, and how a sandwich changed his life.
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Oberlin Musicians Hide Away at Hidden Valley for Winter Term
Oberlin students and their faculty mentors devoted Winter Term to a pair of immersive musical projects at Hidden Valley, an institute of the arts located in Carmel Valley, California. The projects—a TIMARA/dance collaboration and a chamber music intensive—culminated in a series of five public performances at Hidden Valley in January, in addition to a drop-in from the Oberlin Sonny Rollins Jazz Ensemble.
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Fourth Year Soprano Elizabeth Hanje Wins Houston Grand Opera's Eleanor McCollum Competition
Congratulations to soprano Elizabeth Hanje ’24 on winning the Houston Grand Opera Eleanor McCollum Competition! The winner of the competition receives $10,000 and a place in the Sarah and Ernest Butler Houston Grand Opera Studio. As one of the eight finalists selected out of nearly 1,000 applicants for the 2024 Concert of Arias, Hanje performed two works—“Il est doux, il est bon” from Hérodiade by Jules Massenet and “Ain't it a Pretty Night” from Susannah by Carlisle Floyd. Hanje is a student of Oberlin voice professor Salvatore Champagne ’85.
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Cade Johnson for the UC Berkeley Library
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| Oberlin Satiates Hunger for Knowledge with Edible Book Festival
Early April, Oberlin will join libraries around the world to celebrate the love of fine books and good food by hosting their first ever Edible Book Festival! At the Edible Book Festival, participants construct edible displays based on literary works such as the culinary play on Fifty Shades of Gray, "Fifty Shades of Poupon" (pictured). The Edible Book Festival is open to everyone in the community. Individuals, groups, clubs, and school classes are all encouraged to participate. Celebrity judges will award prizes in several categories.
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Oberlin a Top Fulbright producer for 2023-2024
In February, the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs of the U.S. Department of State recognized Oberlin College and Conservatory as a Top Producer of Fulbright Students for the 15th consecutive year. Sixteen students from Oberlin were selected for Fulbright awards for the 2023-24 academic year—tied for second most in the country. Oberlin is a perennial leader in Fulbright honorees among undergraduate institutions; it remains third on the all-time list, with more than 265 Fulbright recipients.
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Oberlin Faculty, Alums Among 2024 Grammy Winners
Oberlin had a big night at Music’s Biggest Night, the 2024 Grammy Awards. Horn professor and composer Jeff Scott won Best Classical Compendium for his composition Passion For Bach And Coltrane. The recording features performances by Imani Winds (whose Oberlin alumni members are flutist Brandon Patrick George ’08, oboist Toyin Spellman-Diaz ’94, and bassoonist Monica Ellis ’95) as well as jazz percussionist Neal Smith ’96. Bass-baritone Dashon Burton ’05 won his third Grammy, as his group Roomful of Teeth took home Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance for 2023’s Rough Magic.
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American Academy of Arts and Letters Honors Multiple Alums
The American Academy of Arts and Letters' 2024 Awards in Music winners included several conservatory alums and a member of the conservatory faculty. Among the honorees is Rhiannon Giddens '00, who was awarded the Virgil Thomson Award of $40,000, which goes to an exceptional American composer of vocal works. Giddens can also be heard playing viola and banjo on the current No. 1 song in the U.S., Beyoncé's Texas Hold 'Em.
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Abounding Accolades: Courtney J. Martin ’96 and Joanne Chory ’77 Earn Prestigious Recognition
The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation chose Courtney J. Martin ’96 as its new executive director. Martin was previously the director of the Yale Center for British Art and also served as chief curator and deputy director of the Dia Art Foundation. Elsewhere, the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia selected Salk Institute Professor Joanne Chory ’77 for a prestigious Benjamin Franklin Medal in Life Science for her achievements in plant science. Previous Franklin laureates include Nikola Tesla, Marie and Pierre Curie, Thomas Edison, Albert Einstein, and Jane Goodall, among others. Congrats to both!
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Matthew Rarey Wins Charles Rufus Morey Book Award
Congratulations are in order for Matthew Rarey, chair of Oberlin’s art history department and an associate professor of African and Black Atlantic art history! Rarey is the 2024 recipient of the College Art Association’s prestigious Charles Rufus Morey Book Award for his first book, Insignificant Things: Amulets and the Art of Survival in the Early Black Atlantic (Duke University Press, 2023). Rarey researches and teaches the art history of the Black Atlantic, with a focus on connections between West Africa, Brazil, and Portugal from the 17th through 21st centuries.
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Submit Your Class Notes Online
Good news: alumni can now submit class notes (along with photos) online! As always, class notes are the place to share a milestone in your personal or professional life. You can announce that you’ve written a book, released an album, received an award or promotion, performed at a cool event, opened an art show, married or attended an Obie wedding, or welcomed a child. When you’re proud to share something, we want to hear about it! We are currently gathering class notes for the Summer 2024 issue of the Oberlin Alumni Magazine.
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Join us for our Annual Webinar: Rising Over Tappan
On Thursday, March 14 at 1 p.m. EDT., the Office of Planned Giving is hosting its annual webinar, Rising Over Tappan. Learn how you can strengthen Oberlin’s future (while gaining tax benefits) through planned giving. This webinar features guest panelists, Beth Fiencke '01, The Nature Conservancy; Laura Malone, Community Foundation of Lorain Community; Marie Williams '01, Northeastern University; and Alan Goldman, Oberlin College and Conservatory.
Please register by contacting Alan Goldman, associate director of gift planning, at agoldma2@oberlin.edu. There is no charge to attend.
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