News
Chemistry Professor Shuming Chen Receives $550,000 NSF Award
April 25, 2024
Communications Staff
Provided over five years, support fuels ongoing faculty-student research as well as education-access initiatives.
![Shuming Chen working with a student in a chemistry lab.](https://www.oberlin.edu/sites/default/files/styles/fp_w360_h270/public/content/news/image/shuming_chen_with_student_2024_by_mike_crupi_copy.jpg?itok=XB6_7cWR)
Five Faculty Earn Excellence in Teaching Honors
March 14, 2024
Communications Staff
Annual awards celebrate distinguished and sustained leadership across the college and conservatory.
![Faculty honorees pose for a photo at the home of President Ambar.](https://www.oberlin.edu/sites/default/files/styles/fp_w360_h270/public/content/news/image/rs184778_obawardsbyscottshawphotography2.jpg?itok=U_LErgD7)
My Cousin the Comb Jelly
November 15, 2023
Annie Zaleski
The research of Darrin Schultz ’13 deepens our insights into animal evolution.
![Darrin Schultz In his research, Darrin Schultz applied existing DNA sequencing technologies and new analysis techniques to organisms people hadn’t studied before.](https://www.oberlin.edu/sites/default/files/styles/fp_w360_h270/public/content/news/image/m_darrin-img_7253.jpg?itok=uKbtWeXu)
Students Present Research at Chemical Society Conference
April 11, 2023
Office of Communications
Areas of focus include antibiotic resistence and protein profiling.
![Seven students seated with their mentors in front of a sign that reads "Proud Chemist."](https://www.oberlin.edu/sites/default/files/styles/fp_w360_h270/public/content/news/image/chemistry_students_at_conference_courtesy_lisa_ryno_copy.jpeg?itok=N_xtyi-o)
Elizabeth Rigby Selected for Prestigious CBYX Fellowship in Germany
July 27, 2022
Amanda Nagy
Through the program, young professionals spend a year living, working, and studying in Germany.
![Elizabeth Rigby portrait Elizabeth Rigby.](https://www.oberlin.edu/sites/default/files/styles/fp_w360_h270/public/content/elizabethrigby-trj.jpg?itok=JHNNS3qD)
Shira Presberg '24 Receives NOAA Hollings Scholarship
May 4, 2022
Amanda Nagy
The Hollings Scholarship awards undergraduates with financial support and research experiences in NOAA-related science.
![Matt Elrod and Shira Presberg photo Professor Matt Elrod and student Shira Presberg in a lab.](https://www.oberlin.edu/sites/default/files/styles/fp_w360_h270/public/content/news/elrod_and_shira_presbergnews-jonathanclark25.jpg?itok=yV7yoV5s)
Jane Sedlak ’19 Studies the Chemistry of Wildfire Smoke
April 20, 2022
Myles McPartland ’24
Jane Sedlak graduated from Oberlin College in 2019 with a degree in chemistry and was named the winner of Oberlin’s Nexial Prize. Given to a student who demonstrates academic excellence and an interest in cultural study, the Nexial Prize comes with a $50,000 award, which afforded Sedlak the opportunity following graduation to study art conservation at the Louvre in Paris.
![Head shot of Jane Sedlak](https://www.oberlin.edu/sites/default/files/styles/fp_w360_h270/public/content/news/image/janesedlak2022_headshot.jpg?itok=9Bx7Yaid)
Pre-Med Student Gets on the Road Training
November 3, 2021
Yvonne Gay
Anna Slebonick spent most of the summer forging quick relationships with patients while the emergency unit she worked in raced down the road.
![A student standing next to an ambulance](https://www.oberlin.edu/sites/default/files/styles/fp_w360_h270/public/content/news/images-2021/annaslebonick.tanyarosen-jones97.jpg?itok=ii-Rmz8Q)
Norm Craig '53, Emeritus Professor of Chemistry, Dies at 89
March 9, 2021
Manish Mehta and Julie Craig Lautens
Craig's work at Oberlin, spanning 63 years, resulted in more than 150 publications, with many featuring Oberlin undergraduates as coauthors. He was passionate about undergraduate research, making the Oberlin chemistry department one of the earliest adopters of the practice among liberal arts colleges.
![Norm Craig archive image Students stand around Norm Craig as he demonstrates a spectrometer.](https://www.oberlin.edu/sites/default/files/styles/fp_w360_h270/public/content/news/images-2021/norm_craig-spectrometer.jpg?itok=NZP33Fov)
Discovering a Passion for Science Communication: Lisa Learman '16
January 6, 2021
Jaimie Yue '22
A biology and musical studies double major at Oberlin, Learman is completing her PhD in the Cellular and Molecular Medicine program at Johns Hopkins University.
![Lisa Learman '16 Lisa Learman, wearing a lab coat, stands in a science lab.](https://www.oberlin.edu/sites/default/files/styles/fp_w360_h270/public/content/news/lisa_learman_crop-news.jpg?itok=gPi2uM7q)