News
Oberlin Expands Impact Investment Platform to Help Improve World’s Troubled Regions
August 20, 2024
Office of Communications
Measures follow recent steps to increase student participation in socially conscious investment decisions.
Voice of Experience
June 27, 2023
Tyler Applegate
Véronique Harris grew up a witness to inequality. Now she’s dedicating her life to eradicating it through a career in public-service law.
Summer of Justice
May 26, 2023
Henry Hicks IV
Darius Butler explores human rights across three continents through a Frederick Douglass Global Fellowship.
Students Lead Reproductive Justice Symposium March 10-11
March 9, 2023
Amanda Nagy
Exhibition of student research and expert-led workshops sponsored by Oberlin's Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies.
Oberlin Holds Teach-in on the George Floyd Uprising
June 16, 2020
Communications Staff
The panel session served as a space for faculty to share their perspectives and insights about the recent events.
Oberlin Drama at Grafton Celebrates Alumni Who Are Now Restored Citizens
February 20, 2020
Jaimie Yue ’22
Former inmates who participated in an innovative prison theater program are recognized for their return to society.
Queer Country Singer Eli Conley ’08 Helps Others Find Their Voice
April 30, 2019
Amanda Nagy
Eli Conley returned to Oberlin earlier this spring to perform and lead a workshop on social justice songs.
Jazz Legend Sonny Rollins Designates Major Gift to Oberlin
November 13, 2017
By Erich Burnett
Newly created Sonny Rollins Jazz Ensemble Fund will support exemplary conservatory musicians and service efforts.
Louisa Liles Receives Dalai Lama fellowship
June 2, 2016
Amanda Nagy
An economics major and lifelong performing artist, Liles is building a model for sustainable arts instruction for impoverished youth in her native Texas.
Celebrating Africana Unity and Celebration Month
February 11, 2016
Lisa Gulasy
This year’s Africana Unity and Celebration Month features a performance of Harriet Tubman: When I Crossed That Line to Freedom, a convocation led by founding member of the Carolina Chocolate Drops Rhiannon Giddens ’00, and the symposium Complicated Relationships: Mary Church Terrell’s Legacy for 21st Century Activists.
