News
Sophie Davis ’16 Awarded Fulbright in Interdisciplinary Studies
May 23, 2017
Hillary Hempstead
Davis will explore the environment and play the violin in Samoa's capital city of Apia.
![Sophie Davis ’16](https://www.oberlin.edu/sites/default/files/styles/fp_w360_h270/public/content/news/image/sophie-davis.jpg?itok=B34j8qT_)
Lindsay Brubaker ’19 Awarded State Department Critical Language Study in Japan
May 16, 2017
Hillary Hempstead
The second-year student will study Japanese in Hikone, Japan.
![Lindsay Brubaker ’19](https://www.oberlin.edu/sites/default/files/styles/fp_w360_h270/public/content/news/image/lindsay_brubaker_17.jpg?itok=utC5FLVa)
Combating Climate Change and Exploring Resilience with the ‘People of the Whales’
February 21, 2017
Amanda Nagy
Assistant Professor Chie Sakakibara collaborates with Alaska Native community to study climate change, cultural resilience, and the reciprocal relationships between humans and animals.
![students with professor at Point Barrow, Alaska](https://www.oberlin.edu/sites/default/files/styles/fp_w360_h270/public/content/news/image/oberlin_crew_standing_at_point_barrow.jpg?itok=en9Yoh1V)
Ohio EPA Grant Brings Environmental Dashboard Lessons to Urban School Districts
December 20, 2016
Communications Staff
Technology created at Oberlin expands in Akron, Cleveland, and Toledo.
![group of students looking at a TV](https://www.oberlin.edu/sites/default/files/styles/fp_w360_h270/public/content/news/image/prospect_dashboard_koosclass_1.jpeg?itok=7rN1huu5)
Sounds of the Sea
November 23, 2016
Neil McCalmont '19
Double-degree violinist Sophie Davis ’17 explores the connections between music and the environment.
![Sophie Davis and her crew mates made music on the deck of their research vessel](https://www.oberlin.edu/sites/default/files/styles/fp_w360_h270/public/content/news/image/josie-davis-boat_2.jpg?itok=zALLMrLC)
Policy, People, and Grassroot Organizing in Portland
March 2, 2016
Chloe Vassot
Kiley Petersen spent her winter term learning about grassroots organizing in local, historically marginalized communities in Portland, Oregon, as an intern for OPAL Environmental Justice Oregon.
![](https://www.oberlin.edu/sites/default/files/styles/fp_w360_h270/public/content/news/image/cape-falcon-kiley-petersen_0.jpg?itok=grMkQZjc)
Fighting for Fairness
February 5, 2016
Kasey Cheydleur
Peter Saudek ’15 works for the Housing Research and Advocacy Center in Cleveland to tackle advocacy work around civil rights and social justice.
![Peter Saudek ’15](https://www.oberlin.edu/sites/default/files/styles/fp_w360_h270/public/content/news/image/peter_saudek_0.jpg?itok=oAX5FeTQ)
Honors for Study Abroad
December 2, 2015
Amanda Nagy
Senior Shavonne Stanek receives an Undergraduate Research Award from the Forum on Education Abroad for her in-depth study of fishing practices in Zanzibar.
![Shavonne Stanek ’16](https://www.oberlin.edu/sites/default/files/styles/fp_w360_h270/public/content/news/image/shavonne_stanek_1_0.jpg?itok=7gFwLLpM)
Writing Science for Radio
December 1, 2015
Kasey Cheydleur, Chloe Vassot
Angus Chen ’13 is a science reporter for National Public Radio (NPR).
![Angus Chen ’13 posed while reporting for WNYC Public Radio](https://www.oberlin.edu/sites/default/files/styles/fp_w360_h270/public/content/news/image/angus_chen_photo_1_0.jpg?itok=Lkv9odA0)
Oberlin Senior Named Rhodes Scholar
November 24, 2015
Amanda Nagy
Machmud Makhmudov, a politics major and environmental studies minor, will study in Oxford for the next two years.
![A neatly dressed man is seated on a sofa](https://www.oberlin.edu/sites/default/files/styles/fp_w360_h270/public/content/news/image/machmud_1_0.jpg?itok=sj8_vQX2)