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Q&A with Nicollette Mitchell ’13 HHMI Inclusive Excellence STEM Fellow
August 30, 2017
Communications Staff
Geology and Africana studies graduate Nicollette Mitchell will return to Oberlin as the first HHMI Inclusive Excellence STEM fellow.
![Nicollette Mitchell Nicollette Mitchell](https://www.oberlin.edu/sites/default/files/styles/fp_w360_h270/public/content/news/image/nicollettemitchell.jpg?itok=58m92Mg_)
Punch Brothers to Play Finney Chapel September 28
August 29, 2017
By Erich Burnett
Punch Brothers, the virtuosic bluegrass ensemble fronted by mandolin player Chris Thile and including Oberlin alum Chris Eldridge ’04 on guitar, will open the 2017-18 Artist Recital Series on September 28.
![Five men in colorful suits](https://www.oberlin.edu/sites/default/files/styles/fp_w360_h270/public/content/news/image/punch_brothers_2017.jpg?itok=EqD9YJk-)
Reunifying Oberlin’s Natural History Collection
August 29, 2017
Hillary Hempstead
Associate Professor of Anthropology Amy Margaris ’96 along with other faculty and staff members on campus are working to digitize the college’s many “dangling collections”—objects and specimens spread across various campus buildings that at one time had a home in the college’s natural history museum.
![Associate Professor of Anthropology Amy Margaris](https://www.oberlin.edu/sites/default/files/styles/fp_w360_h270/public/content/news/image/amymargaris1.jpg?itok=uNU2WKYG)
Marina Shay ’12 Returns to Cleveland for ‘Shakespeare in Love’
August 24, 2017
Amanda Nagy
A theater graduate, Marina Shay has landed the lead role in the upcoming Cleveland Play House production.
![Shakespeare in Love production photo Marina Shay in Shakespeare in Love](https://www.oberlin.edu/sites/default/files/styles/fp_w360_h270/public/content/news/image/shakespeare_primary.jpg?itok=bqT0PxPq)
Cello Professor Darrett Adkins Releases Myth & Tradition
August 18, 2017
By Erich Burnett
On his new release for Oberlin Music, Myth & Tradition , Oberlin Associate Professor of Cello Darrett Adkins ’91 teams up with the Oberlin Contemporary Music Ensemble for the world-premiere recording of a commissioned work, Su Lian Tan’s “Legends of Kintamani.”
![Myth& Tradition album cover album cover for Myth & Tradition](https://www.oberlin.edu/sites/default/files/styles/fp_w360_h270/public/content/news/image/myth_tradition_front_cover_for_web.jpg?itok=Ba-ca5UH)
Community Partnership Focuses on Accessibility in Science
August 7, 2017
Tyler Sloan
Oberlin Associate Professor of Biology Taylor Allen and Peter Ogbuji, executive director of the Harrison Cultural Community Center, cosponsored a camp to make science more creative and accessible to children in Lorain County.
![adults and children working together to build science projects](https://www.oberlin.edu/sites/default/files/styles/fp_w360_h270/public/content/news/image/rs77604_science_dp065.jpg?itok=XhiPfMM6)
From Catching Bats to Fighting Cancer: How Three Science Students Spent Summer Break
August 3, 2017
Hillary Hempstead
From bat research in Puerto Rico to lab work in Massachusetts, science majors spent the summer immersed in research projects across the globe.
![Juan Contreras sampling bats in Puerto Rico Student with bat](https://www.oberlin.edu/sites/default/files/styles/fp_w360_h270/public/content/news/image/juanc-bat.jpg?itok=vx66yp67)
Oberlin-Como Piano Academy Enters Second Year
August 2, 2017
Erich Burnett
Oberlin Conservatory will begin its second full year as the U.S. home of the International Piano Academy Lake Como with a schedule of master artist residencies beginning this fall.
![Pianist performing on stage](https://www.oberlin.edu/sites/default/files/styles/fp_w360_h270/public/content/news/image/allesandro_deljavan_by_dale_preston_83_0.jpg?itok=YNDki_hX)
Sophia Weinmann’s Plan to Save the Elephants
August 1, 2017
Amanda Nagy
A 2011 graduate in biology and environmental studies, Weinmann is part of an international effort fostering human-elephant conservation in Kenya.
![Sophia Weinmann '11 Sophia Weinmann standing in front on elephant](https://www.oberlin.edu/sites/default/files/styles/fp_w360_h270/public/content/news/image/sophia_weinmann_2.jpg?itok=NMJqC5uz)
Ace of Clubs
July 27, 2017
Samantha Spaccasi ’17
A circuitous route through Oberlin led directly to a dream job for Gabe Pollack ’11, who today manages a popular jazz club in the Cleveland area.
![The Bop Stop's Gabe Pollack Former Oberlin double-degree student Gabe Pollack](https://www.oberlin.edu/sites/default/files/styles/fp_w360_h270/public/content/news/image/gabe_pollack_by_julie_gulenko.jpg?itok=qLH06nqz)