News
Students Succeed in French Language Competition
May 17, 2016
Chloe Vassot
Fourth-year French majors Georgia Lederman and Morgan Griffith took home first and second place, respectively, at a French-speaking competition hosted by la Maison Française de Cleveland.
![Morgan Griffith, Georgia Lederman, Pauline Barzman, and Thomas Chevrier](https://www.oberlin.edu/sites/default/files/styles/fp_w360_h270/public/content/news/image/dsc_0092_0.jpg?itok=QrHBzsaj)
Business and Pleasure and Ballerinas
May 16, 2016
Faith Roberts
Thanisa Durongkaveroj ’18, an international student from Thailand, seeks balance among her many interests.
![Thanisa Durongkaveroj](https://www.oberlin.edu/sites/default/files/styles/fp_w360_h270/public/content/news/image/thanisa_0.jpg?itok=EmWj4u8l)
Emily Nussbaum '88 Awarded Pulitzer Prize
May 16, 2016
Lisa Gulasy
Alumna selected for the honor “for television reviews written with an affection that never blunts the shrewdness of her analysis or the easy authority of her writing.”
![The 2016 Pulitzer Prize](https://www.oberlin.edu/sites/default/files/styles/fp_w360_h270/public/content/news/image/pulitzer_medals_0.png?itok=MWjHRuRq)
Julia Skrovan '15 Receives Shansi Grant to Indonesia
May 16, 2016
Lisa Gulasy
Alumna Julia Skrovan ’15 will teach English and lend writing support to undergraduate and graduate students at Syiah Kuala University in Banda Aceh.
![Julia Skrovan](https://www.oberlin.edu/sites/default/files/styles/fp_w360_h270/public/content/news/image/juliaskrovan_thumbnail_0.jpg?itok=cu_vJSSI)
Louise Edwards '16 Receives Shansi Fellowship
May 16, 2016
Kasey Cheydleur
Louise Edwards ’16 says her Shansi fellowship at Shanxi Agricultural University in Taigu, China, is an opportunity to learn more about her biracial identity by engaging in cross-cultural learning.
![Louise Edwards](https://www.oberlin.edu/sites/default/files/styles/fp_w360_h270/public/content/news/image/rs59614_mg_1266160421louiseedwards_0.jpg?itok=DY5Vlyk1)
Unbound Curiosity
May 12, 2016
Amanda Nagy
Studio art major Alice Shockey, a finalist in AICUO Excellence in the Visual Arts awards, studies spatial boundaries and her family’s history in the Holocaust.
![](https://www.oberlin.edu/sites/default/files/styles/fp_w360_h270/public/content/news/image/shockey_reclaiming_space_0.jpg?itok=f0kVPIUg)
Leo Harrington Awarded Fulbright Grant to Austria
May 12, 2016
Lisa Gulasy
The history and music performance double-degree student will teach English and continue research on music and society in interwar Germanic culture.
![portrait of student leo harrington](https://www.oberlin.edu/sites/default/files/styles/fp_w360_h270/public/content/news/image/rs59188_mg_9787160412leoharrington-scr_0.jpg?itok=jGnBGRFp)
Collective Style
May 11, 2016
Amanda Nagy
The re-launched Oberlin Apparel Collective offers a new lineup of T-shirts and accessories that celebrate campus icons.
![Sticker on a computer says 'Drunk in Mudd'](https://www.oberlin.edu/sites/default/files/styles/fp_w360_h270/public/content/news/image/apparel_collective-drunk_sticker_0.jpg?itok=7EYC9gll)
Connecting Across Religious Difference
May 10, 2016
Kasey Cheydleur
Interfaith Student Council works together to connect across many faiths and backgrounds to build dialogue and bring religious diversity to campus.
![](https://www.oberlin.edu/sites/default/files/styles/fp_w360_h270/public/content/news/image/beirut-paris_vigil_0.jpg?itok=JIXXLoOh)
Caitlyn Pineault '16 Awarded Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship in Mexico
May 9, 2016
Lisa Gulasy
Pineault credits the Spanish in the Elementary Schools (SITES) program with teaching her to create lessons that make language learning exciting.
![Caitlyn Pineault](https://www.oberlin.edu/sites/default/files/styles/fp_w360_h270/public/content/news/image/caitlynpineault_thumbnail_0.jpg?itok=Idm7R1g_)