News
A Leader in Supercomputing
September 18, 2014
Amanda Nagy
Oberlin receives NSF funding to acquire a new high-performance computer cluster.
![Computer wires](https://www.oberlin.edu/sites/default/files/styles/fp_w360_h270/public/content/news/image/illiac_iv_processing_unit_0.jpg?itok=7JulNIGu)
The Sound of Summer in Oberlin? Same as the Rest of the Year
September 16, 2014
Michael Stenovec
Oberlin's summer music programs keep things lively while students are away.
![Jazz ensemble including several double basses](https://www.oberlin.edu/sites/default/files/styles/fp_w360_h270/public/content/news/image/mhi-dp223_students_0.jpg?itok=bPmlI_mH)
Game On
September 11, 2014
Amanda Nagy
Oberlin builds community in the Austin E. Knowlton Athletics Complex
![Kowlton Satdium bleachers](https://www.oberlin.edu/sites/default/files/styles/fp_w360_h270/public/content/news/image/knowlton-grandstand_0.jpg?itok=bQnpcBET)
A Long-Forgotten Instrument Takes Center Stage at Oberlin
September 10, 2014
By Erich Burnett
September 13 faculty recital marks the debut of a newly acquired 19th-century fortepiano.
![Historical keyboard](https://www.oberlin.edu/sites/default/files/styles/fp_w360_h270/public/content/news/image/zierer_closeup_0.jpg?itok=kJS5tHna)
Oberlin Kicks Off Convocation Series with Talk by Ishmael Beah '04
September 5, 2014
Communications Staff
The convocation series presents free, public discussions by some of the country’s most prominent thinkers.
![Ishmael Beah](https://www.oberlin.edu/sites/default/files/styles/fp_w360_h270/public/content/news/image/ishmael_beah_0.jpg?itok=tjQ93F7m)
Calder Quartet Launches the Artist Recital Series September 30
September 4, 2014
By Erich Burnett
Adventuresome ensemble opens its 2014-16 residency with music brimming with themes of forbidden love, cheated death—and nature.
![The Calder Quartet](https://www.oberlin.edu/sites/default/files/styles/fp_w360_h270/public/content/news/image/calder_0.jpeg?itok=5FyL94Wy)
Young Artists on the Rise
August 29, 2014
Rosalind Black
Firelands Assocation for the Visual Arts and the Allen Memorial Art Museum collaborate to bring arts education to kids in Oberlin during a week-long summer arts camp.
![Elementary school students engage in hands-on activities.](https://www.oberlin.edu/sites/default/files/styles/fp_w360_h270/public/content/news/image/rs35096_artclass-dp08_0.jpg?itok=hzgIFgyK)
Analysis for Equality
August 26, 2014
Rosalind Black
Zohra Ansari-Thomas ’14 prevents discrimination one data set at a time while creating affirmative action plans at the law firm Littler Mendelson.
![Room with computer monitors and keyboard](https://www.oberlin.edu/sites/default/files/styles/fp_w360_h270/public/content/news/image/photo_7_0.jpeg?itok=LUleqnIu)
Get On Board
August 25, 2014
Rosalind Black
Jack Ratner ’14 goes from computer science student to junior engineer at a start-up technology company, Bandwagon, that has introduced a ride-sharing smartphone app to reduce pollution and traffic in New York City.
![Bandwagon team members](https://www.oberlin.edu/sites/default/files/styles/fp_w360_h270/public/content/news/image/bandwagon-team_0.jpg?itok=4N9HVpNL)
Life in Technicolor
August 25, 2014
Rosalind Black
Cinema studies major Alexis Gee ’14 sets off on her path to becoming a film editor with a client services position at the post-production company Technicolor-Postworks New York.
![Alexis Gee ’14](https://www.oberlin.edu/sites/default/files/styles/fp_w360_h270/public/content/news/image/img_2543_0.jpg?itok=_k456Q0o)