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Iesha-LaShay Phillips ’22 Awarded Full Scholarship to Yale Law School
April 25, 2022
Yvonne Gay
After earning full scholarships to nearly every law school she applied to, Iesha-LaShay Phillips ’22 has decided to pursue a fully funded law degree at Yale Law School in the fall.
3 Oberlin Conservatory Alumni Win 2022 Guggenheim Fellowships
April 22, 2022
Erich Burnett
Annual awards support research or creative endeavors across a range of disciplines.
Oberlin Alumni Among 64th Annual Grammy Winners
April 5, 2022
Cathy Partlow Strauss ’84
Honors include a second Grammy for multi-instrumentalist Rhiannon Giddens.
Dance, Creative Writing Faculty Members Receive Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Awards
March 14, 2022
Amanda Nagy
The awards are peer recognition of an artist's body of work, and support artists' growth and development in Ohio and beyond.
Oberlin Named Top Fulbright Producer for 2021-2022
March 2, 2022
Scott Wargo
The U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs has recognized Oberlin College for the 13th consecutive year as a Top Producer of Fulbright Students. Oberlin is fifth among baccalaureate institutions, sending nine scholars to study abroad during the 2021-2022 academic year
Megan Kaes Long Wins Society for Music Theory's Wallace Berry Award
December 20, 2021
Erich Burnett
Megan Kaes Long , an associate professor of music theory at Oberlin Conservatory, was awarded the 2021 Wallace Berry Award by the Society for Music Theory. The prize is given annually for a...
Ho Ting (Kelvin) Tang Earns 2021 Takács Beethoven Piano Prize
December 13, 2021
Erich Burnett
Annual competition honors Oberlin’s longtime professor and the master who inspires his work.
Winners Named in Oberlin’s 2021 Senior Concerto Competition
November 18, 2021
Cathy Partlow Strauss ’84
Four instrumentalists will perform with the Oberlin Orchestra in April and May 2022.
The Chopin Whisperer
November 9, 2021
Erich Burnett
Oberlin professor Dang Thai Son conquered one of the world’s most prestigious piano competitions. Now his students are doing the same.
Computer Science Professor Stephen Checkoway Receives Golden Goose Award
September 22, 2021
Amanda Nagy
Checkoway is part of a team of scientists being honored for work leading to the discovery that someone could hack a car.