News
Julia Olivieri Receives Goldwater Scholarship
May 14, 2015
Amanda Nagy
Award is given to exceptional students in math and sciences.
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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)
Once a Student, Now an Expert
June 11, 2014
Communications Staff
Professor of Biology Yolanda Cruz is using a Fulbright teaching scholarship to give back to her native Philippines and the university that provided her early training.
![Yolanda Cruz in her lab](https://www.oberlin.edu/sites/default/files/styles/fp_w360_h270/public/content/news/image/fulbright_yolandacruz-019_use_this_one_0.jpg?itok=xKSTy860)
On the Mound and in the Lab
June 10, 2014
Mike Mancini
Mike McDonald has received national recognition for his achievements as in biochemistry and as a pitcher on Oberlin’s baseball team.
![Mike Mcdonald throwing a pitch during an Oberlin baseball game](https://www.oberlin.edu/sites/default/files/styles/fp_w360_h270/public/content/news/image/mike_mcdonald_pitcher_0.jpg?itok=fBlmqouI)
(Desert) Plants Are Cool, Too
March 11, 2014
Amanda Nagy
Associate Biology Professor Mike Moore shows the length that researchers will go to explore desert plant diversity.
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Summer in Oberlin Means Research
August 20, 2013
James Helmsworth
During the summer, Oberlin students assist faculty with important research, while making discoveries of their own.
![William Burke makes adjustments to instruments in Matthew Elrod’s lab.](https://www.oberlin.edu/sites/default/files/styles/fp_w360_h270/public/content/news/image/_mg_7815_0.jpg?itok=LhUZM9vV)
Two Receive Goldwater Honorable Mention
May 8, 2013
Amanda Nagy, Liv Combe
Taylor Richard and Daniel Starer-Stor receive honorable mention in the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Program.
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Running Around the World
January 8, 2013
Liv Combe
Back from training with athletes on three continents, Joanna Johnson ’11 has learned a thing or two about what motivates people to run — including herself.
![Joanna Johnson ’11 running along an asphalt path.](https://www.oberlin.edu/sites/default/files/styles/fp_w360_h270/public/content/news/image/2013-01-08-news_0.png?itok=k5et1a_s)