News
Jeremy Simon ’17: Environmental Outreach and Cross-Cultural Learning
June 7, 2019
Andrea Wang ’19
Since graduating from Oberlin, psychology graduate Jeremy Simon ’17 has led outdoors programs across Southeast Asia.
![Jeremy Simon ’17 with fellow trip leaders in Bhutan. Three people standing in front of mountains and lake. Photo.](https://www.oberlin.edu/sites/default/files/styles/fp_w360_h270/public/content/news/image/jeremy_s_header_photo.jpg?itok=zLmGoYn5)
Producing Radio at NPR: Anna Bauman ’17
June 6, 2019
Jane Hobson ’22
History graduate Anna Bauman ’17 is building a career path in radio. Currently, she works as an associate producer for NPR’s On Point.
![Anna Bauman ’17 Headshot of Anna Bauman. Photo.](https://www.oberlin.edu/sites/default/files/styles/fp_w360_h270/public/content/news/image/anna_bauman_headshot.jpg?itok=M50kgHQI)
Maker, Musician and Steel Pan Tuner: Noah Sanderson ’16
June 5, 2019
Andrea Wang ’19
Noah Sanderson ’16 is a lifelong maker and musician who became serious about steel pan while at Oberlin. Since graduation, he has been gradually improving his skills tuning and making these instruments.
![Noah Sanderson ’16 in his pan tuning workshop, which doubles as a percussion room. Sanderson started getting serious about steel pan while at Oberlin. Noah Sanderson leaning against racks filled with steel pan. Photo.](https://www.oberlin.edu/sites/default/files/styles/fp_w360_h270/public/content/news/image/noah_sanderson_header_photo.jpg?itok=8mQ5H998)
Crafting Strategies To Aid Health Care Reform: Emma Eisenberg ’17
June 4, 2019
Jane Hobson ’22
As an assistant account executive at GMMB, a communications agency in Washington, D.C., Emma Eisenberg ’17 creates strategies to aid the progress of health care reform.
![Emma Eisenberg ’17 Black and white headshot of Emma Eisenberg.](https://www.oberlin.edu/sites/default/files/styles/fp_w360_h270/public/content/news/image/emma_eisenberg_headshot.jpg?itok=o4cCMgWB)
Bridget Smith Selected for Fulbright Summer Institute in Scotland
June 3, 2019
Amanda Nagy
A politics major, Smith will explore Scotland’s culture and history.
![Bridget Smith Picture of woman standing next to wall of brochures](https://www.oberlin.edu/sites/default/files/styles/fp_w360_h270/public/content/news/image/bridget_smith-chrisschmucki19.jpg?itok=9dEc9Fh2)
Ian Hunt-Isaak ’18 Awarded National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship
June 2, 2019
Hillary Hempstead
The fellowship provides Hunt-Isaak ’18 additional freedom to pursue new research projects.
![Science Center night view of the Science Center.](https://www.oberlin.edu/sites/default/files/styles/fp_w360_h270/public/content/news/image/sciencectr-ian-cd.jpg?itok=_ggXuxnJ)
Environmental Studies Students Connect with Urban Farms in Cleveland
May 31, 2019
Erin Ulrich ’18
American Agricultures, an environmental studies course, exposes students to the history of black agrarianism in Cleveland.
![Associate Professor of Environmental Studies and Comparative American Studies Janet Fiskio with a student in her course, American Agricultures Janet Fiskio motions with her hands, speaking to a student, against a whiteboard that reads "peer review"](https://www.oberlin.edu/sites/default/files/styles/fp_w360_h270/public/content/news/image/american_agricultures_photo_header.jpg?itok=aBL5Ey9L)
Bikalpa Baniya ’19 and Gaurab Pokharel ’21 Receive Davis Projects for Peace Award
May 30, 2019
Erin Ulrich ’18
Baniya and Pokharel have earned the Davis Projects for Peace Award, which funds undergraduate projects that advance peacemaking efforts.
![Gaurab Pokharel ’21 Gaurab Pokharel posing in a busy hallway in King, leaning against a bulletin board.](https://www.oberlin.edu/sites/default/files/styles/fp_w360_h270/public/content/news/image/gaurab_pokharel_headshot.jpg?itok=Sj183WoW)
BorderLight Transcends Geographic Divides, Promises to Put Cleveland On the Map
May 30, 2019
Erin Ulrich ’18
BorderLight is bringing international theater to Cleveland through collaboration and an innovative approach to showcasing new writing. Four alumni will participate in this year's festival.
![Playhouse Square Playhouse Square at night.](https://www.oberlin.edu/sites/default/files/styles/fp_w360_h270/public/content/news/image/borderlight_photo_header.jpg?itok=fjG527cQ)
Baritone Andrew Frierson Broke Opera’s Color Barrier
May 29, 2019
Erich Burnett
The outspoken advocate of civil rights taught voice at Oberlin in the 1970s.
![photograph of andrew frierson baritone Andrew Frierson](https://www.oberlin.edu/sites/default/files/styles/fp_w360_h270/public/content/news/image/andrew_frierson_1974_mstr.jpg?itok=H4XiqZ2O)