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Renowned Opera Singer Jessye Norman will give the Commencement address.

In this winter-term project, participants truly create their own garment from scratch, from yarn selection and learning how to weave fabric on a loom, to sewing and fitting their completed design.

Dance Diaspora members find inspiration, learn painful slave history in winter term trip to Gambia.

Students who choose an intensive language course over winter term learn an entire semester’s material in one month.

This winter term, a small group of students participated in a songwriting workshop led by noted singer-songwriter Lucy Wainwright Roche ’03.

For the first time, scientists have detected gravitational waves, a phenomenon first theorized by Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity. Two Oberlin professors are particularly excited by the discovery, having closely followed the project in connection to their own gravitational wave research.

A dozen students led by Associate Professor Zeinab Abul-Magd spent winter term exploring the political and environmental issues facing Egypt.

The symposium Complicated Relationships: Mary Church Terrell’s Legacy for 21st Century Activists, happening February 26 and 27, celebrates a significant gift to the Oberlin College Archives and examines what today’s activists can learn from famous educator, feminist, and civil rights activist Mary Church Terrell (Class of 1884).

Third-year Gabriel Hitchcock, a neuroscience major and art history minor, spent his winter term in Hanoi, Vietnam, volunteering at a traditional medicine hospital.

First-year student Aaron Cohen has been named a YoungArts Merit Winner in Photography by the National YoungArts Foundation.