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Taylor Richard and Daniel Starer-Stor receive honorable mention in the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Program.

Junior Rachel Manning has received a 2013 Udall Scholarship.

Matthew Gallagher has won the Grand Award for Excellence in the Visual Arts from the Association of Independent Colleges and Universities of Ohio.

The leaders of Kenya Reads, a literacy initiative that established the first-ever community library in an impoverished area of Kenya, have received more than $20,000 to sustain their work.

Margaret Nichols has won a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, and Adam Birdsall has received honorable mention.

Assistant Professor of Art History Sarah Hamill has been awarded a 2013 Collaborative Research Fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies. Hamill will co-author a study of the role of photography in shaping modern conceptions of art and history.

Gail Schwieterman will spend a year investigating conservation efforts to curb the overfishing of sharks and other marine life as a 2013-14 Watson Fellow.

Sydney Mancasola ’11 is the latest in a long line of Oberlinians to succeed in the National Council Auditions of the Metropolitan Opera.

Record-breaking runner Molly Martorella, a neuroscience and biochemistry double major, has been awarded a summer research internship with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

Neuroscience and mathematics major Billy Broderick will spend a year living and working in Asia as a Luce Scholar.