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Omar Opera Available to Livestream on November, 11, 2023
See the sold out production of Omar live from your living room on Saturday, November 11, at 7:30 PM PST with music by Rhiannon Giddens '00. Purchase access to the livestream on the San Francisco Opera website. The livestream will be available to those who purchased access on-demand for 48 hours following the performance.
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Campus Research Shines at Annual Lab Crawl
The annual Oberlin College Lab Crawl took place on Friday, October 27. Held every autumn, this open house gives students a chance to drop in on labs and other research spaces—including in the areas of STEM, the humanities, social sciences, and conservatory departments—and talk with faculty and other students about their ongoing work.
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New Episode of Running to the Noise Podcast Launches with Richard Haass '73
This month’s episode of Running to the Noise, the Oberlin College and Conservatory podcast hosted by President Carmen Twillie Ambar, features President Ambar and guest Richard Haass '73, author of "The Bill of Obligations: The Ten Habits of Good Citizens,” discussing why our democracy is imperiled and how we can work to protect it.
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Seraph Brass Brings Music with a Mission to Oberlin’s Finney Chapel Stage
The Artist Recital Series continued with Seraph Brass performing their new work, Showcase, by Oberlin Conservatory professor Jeff Scott to an audience of Oberlin students, faculty, alumni, and friends. Thanks to the generosity of alumni Richard '62 and Linda '62 Clark, students were able to attend the concert free of charge. The ensemble also offered four master classes to students in the Conservatory's Brass Department as well as a "lunch and learn" session where the ensemble members discussed the link between musical performance and entreprenuership. The Artist Recital Series continues with a concert by Jeremy Denk.
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Athletic Obies Secure a Win for the Community with Track or Treat
The 10th annual Track or Treat took place this past Sunday, October 29. Wearing Halloween costumes, each of our varsity sports programs set up stations around the Kahn Track distributing candy and engaging with local youth and the children of faculty and staff through various activities and games. This year's crowd drew approximately 400 area children and their families.
Be in the know about upcoming athletics matches and games by keeping an eye on Oberlin College Athletics composite calendar and streaming games live when available. Results are posted on the department's webpage. Did you know Oberlin's Shanks Health and Wellness Center also has classes and programming for local alumni and alumni visiting campus? Take a class, run the trails, or participate in November's fitness challenge by going to the Yeofit & Rec website.
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The Oberlin Alumni Magazine is On the Way!
Watch your mailboxes! The fall 2023 issue of the Oberlin Alumni Magazine will be in your hands very soon. Expect the usual mix of campus news, thought-provoking stories, class notes, and examples of Obies out there in the world doing good things.
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Shansi Fellowship Awardee Jasmine Mitchell ’21 Selected as a Pickering Fellow
Fresh off a two-year cultural exchange in Japan, Oberlin Shansi Fellowship recipient and East Asian studies major Jasmine Mitchell '21 recently earned the prestigious Thomas R. Pickering Fellowship. The award offers her the unique opportunity to serve in the U.S. Department of State’s Foreign Service program—and will support Jasmine as she pursues a master’s degree in Asian studies at the Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University.
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Courtney Bryan ’04 Wins Prestigious MacArthur Fellowship
Oberlin College and Conservatory has a new "genius" in its midst. Composer and pianist Courtney Bryan '04, a graduate of Oberlin Conservatory whose works explore the African American experience through a range of musical and sociopolitical influences, has been awarded a 2023 MacArthur Fellowship (aka the "Genius Grant"), one of the nation’s most prestigious honors.
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Dr. Menna Demessie ’02 Wins Black Music Action Coalition Social Impact Award
Dr. Menna Demessie '02—a member of Oberlin’s Board of Trustees and the senior vice president and executive director of Universal Music Group’s global Task Force for Meaningful Change—was recently awarded the Black Music Action Coalition (BMAC) Social Impact Award. Other BMAC Social Impact Award winners include Emmy-winning actress-singer-songwriter-producer Keke Palmer and Emmy-winning producer Jesse Collins. In addition to this award, the Cleveland-born scholar activist also received a Black Star Award from African Communities.
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Kirk Ormand Elected President of the Society for Classical Studies
Professor of Classics Kirk Ormand has been elected as president of the Society for Classical Studies (SCS), the largest professional organization in North America for the study of the ancient Mediterranean world. He will serve a three-year term. Ormand's duties including organizing an SCS Presidential Panel and delivering the Presidential Address at the group's January 2026 meeting. Ormand is the first member of the Oberlin faculty to be elected to the position of SCS President, and the second professor overall from a small liberal-arts college to be elected in the last 50 years.
Read more about Kirk Ormand here.
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Rachel Saylor Coauthors Article With Obie Young Alum, Elizabeth Rigby '22
Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry Rachel Saylor has published an article, "To Fluoresce or Not to Fluoresce: Investigation of Structural and Fluorescence Characteristics of CBI-Dopamine, CBI-Serotonin, and Their Structural Analogs," in Analytical Chemistry. Her coauthor is Elizabeth Rigby ’22 who completed the Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange (CBYX) for Young Professionals fellowship program this past June.
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Now is a great time to consider an end-of-year gift to support Oberlin! If you are at least 70 1/2 years old and have an Individual Retirement Account (IRA), you can give a maximum of $100,000 per year to a qualified charity from your IRA. This popular gift option is sometimes referred to as the IRA charitable rollover, but may also be called a qualified charitable distribution, or QCD. A QCD can help reduce taxable income, even if you do not itemize deductions. Other benefits include being able to see your gift being put to use immediately. If you're interested in learning more, contact the Office of Leadership and Planned Giving at gift.planning@oberlin.edu or 440-775-8599.
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