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| Melissa Fleming ’86, Head of Communications for the United Nations, Returns to Oberlin
Melissa Fleming, the Under-Secretary-General for Global Communications at the United Nations and a 1986 graduate of Oberlin College, returned to her alma mater on April 10 to discuss her career and her Oberlin roots.
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Richard Powers to Deliver Commencement Address to Class of 2023
Richard Powers, author of 13 novels, polymath, and celebrated tree whisperer, will deliver the keynote address for Oberlin College and Conservatory’s Commencement ceremony honoring the Class of 2023 on Monday, May 22.
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Critical Language Scholarship Awarded to Emma Kim ’25
Emma Kim ’25 has been awarded a Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) by the U.S. Department of State to study Russian at the American University of Central Asia in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, during the summer of 2023. Emma is the 19th Oberlin student to receive a CLS and the second student selected for Russian.
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Students Present Research at Chemical Society Conference
Oberlin chemistry and biochemistry students and faculty traveled to the American Chemical Society’s National Meeting in Indianapolis in late March to present posters on their research and learn about cutting-edge science. Seven students took part in the conference, along with professors Will Parsons and Lisa Ryno.
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Bonner Scholar Sadie Owens ’23 Helps to Foster Service at Oberlin
Oberlin’s Bonner Scholars program has been connecting classrooms to communities for more than 30 years. Operated by the Bonner Center for Community-Engaged Learning, Teaching, and Research and supported by the national Bonner Foundation, the scholars program provides four-year community service scholarships to approximately 60 Oberlin students who are the first in their families to attend college or come from underrepresented populations. Sadie Owens ’23 is a fourth-year Bonner leader, tutor and mentor who's making a difference in the community.
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Oberlin's Cooper International Competition for Piano Returns in 2023
The Thomas and Evon Cooper International Competition brings some of the world’s most talented young musicians to the campus of Oberlin College and Conservatory every summer. In 2023, we will see a return of the piano competition with a slightly condensed format and the exciting Finals featuring three pianists in performances of complete concertos with The Cleveland Orchestra at their home venue, Severance Music Center, in Cleveland, Ohio.
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‘Rainbow’ Connections: Amara Granderson's visions of Broadway came into focus on the stages of Oberlin
At Oberlin, Amara Granderson ’17 graduated with a degree in Africana studies, but also forged ties with Oberlin's theater faculty. Granderson continued her studies in an MFA program at the University of California, San Diego, and later portrayed The Lady in Orange in the Tony-nominated Broadway revival of for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf.
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Cynthia A. Brown ’74 to Receive Oberlin Alumni Association's Highest Honor
In acknowledgement and celebration of her many years of steadfast service to Oberlin College and Conservatory, the Alumni Association Awards Committee selected Cindy Brown ’74 to receive the 2023 Alumni Medal during this year's Commencement ceremony. Forty years ago, Brown received a phone call asking her to help Oberlin alumni in the Columbus, Ohio, area to engage with the college and each other. Over the following decades, as the regional alumni coordinator in Columbus, Brown planned concerts, outdoor events, art museum lectures, and dinners. She invited Oberlin professors to talk with alumni about their fields and organized admissions events for prospective students. Brown also created volunteer opportunities through which alumni could build something enduring.
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"Black Queer Genius" Campus Lecture with Channing Gerard Joseph ’03
Channing Gerard Joseph ’03 explained why learning Black queer history is critical to understanding American culture in his campus lecture "Black Queer Genius: What African American LGBT+ Culture Can Teach Us About Ourselves." A TED speaker and an award-winning journalist, Joseph is also a visiting Ferris Professor of Journalism at Princeton University and an authority on the origins of African American queer history and culture. Click here to view Joseph's website.
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Advocacy Journalist Sydney Allen ’19: A Voice for the Voiceless
Sydney Allen ’19 graduated from Oberlin in 2019 with a major in English and minors in rhetoric and history. Since graduating, she has worked remotely for a global news outlet while traveling around Southeast Asia. In June 2021, she began a position as an associate editor and Green Voices coordinator at Global Voices Online. Read more about Sydney's journey.
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- Piano professor Peter Takács and violin professor Sibbi Bernhardsson have released a recording, Schubert: Three Sonatas for Piano and Violin, Op. 137, on the Leaf Music label—their first collaboration together. Recorded in May 2020 in Oberlin Conservatory's Clonick Hall, these sonatas are some of Schubert’s most lively yet least-known compositions. This recording is a digital-only release and available online at Leaf Music, Apple Music, and in a lossless audio format on TIDAL Music.
- Assistant Professor of Creative Writing Allegra Hyde's debut novel ELEUTHERIA was longlisted for the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award.
- Visiting Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature Anna Levett published an essay, "Can Art Save Your Life?: On Revolution, Political Prisoners, Climate Activism, and Pink Floyd," in the Los Angeles Review of Books. The essay was inspired by discussions with Professor Levett's students in her CMPL 237 course, "Art of Revolution," as well as by Bakunin's Barricade, an installation by the Kurdish-Turkish artist Ahmet Öğüt that made its North American Premiere at Oberlin's Allen Memorial Art Museum last fall.
- Associate Professor of Art History Matthew Rarey has been appointed to a new Ohio-based editorial consortium for African Arts, the flagship journal in his field. Headquartered at Miami University, the consortium brings together experts in African art at Miami, the Cleveland Museum of Art, Kent State, and Ohio State.
- On February 28 and April 2, Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies Sergio Gutiérrez delivered invited lectures in the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and in University of Texas, Permian Basin. His talks, on figures of labor and idleness, respectively, in 19th century Mexican economic discourse are part of his forthcoming book, Mexico, Interrupted: Labor, Idleness, and the Economic Imaginary of Independence.
- Emeritus Professor of History Steven Volk was interviewed for an episode of the EdSurge podcast on April 12. The topic: "Did Liberal Arts Colleges Miss a Chance to Become More Inclusive After the Pandemic?"
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