News
Stitches to Startup
September 27, 2023
Tyler Applegate
Andrea Muliawan recieved a grant that helped her turn a hobby into a budding business.
![Andrea Muliawan headshot.](https://www.oberlin.edu/sites/default/files/styles/fp_w360_h270/public/content/news/image/20230905-110.jpg?itok=eXIRUa8Y)
Oberlin Secures $1M Mellon Foundation Grant for Food Studies Partnership with Lorain County Community College
March 6, 2023
Office of Communications
Wide-ranging collaboration to address food justice across the region through the humanities.
![Students cheerfully tending to a garden.](https://www.oberlin.edu/sites/default/files/styles/fp_w360_h270/public/content/news/image/students_at_george_jones_farm_by_yevhen_gulenko.jpg?itok=EOayJ4_O)
Rumi Shammin Researching Rohingya Refugee Crisis in Bangladesh
June 28, 2019
Erin Ulrich ’18
Associate Professor of Environmental Studies Rumi Shammin is researching the environmental and social aspects of the Rohingya refugee crisis in Bangladesh.
![Rumi Shammin (second from left) at the Kutupalong-Balukhali expansion site in Bangladesh Rumi Shammin stands with three people in front of sign that reads "Beat Plastic Pollution." Photo.](https://www.oberlin.edu/sites/default/files/styles/fp_w360_h270/public/content/news/image/refugees_and_resilience_header_photo.jpg?itok=RhWKciqs)
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)
Oberlin Shansi Announces Summer 2019 In-Asia Grant Recipients
May 29, 2019
Erin Ulrich ’18
Four students have received In-Asia grants for summer 2019.
![Oberlin Shansi Open House Photo of materials distributed on a table (pencils, buttons, books)](https://www.oberlin.edu/sites/default/files/styles/fp_w360_h270/public/content/news/image/shansi_fellows_story_photo_header.jpg?itok=AANtvjvc)
Students and Faculty Travel to China through LIASE Grant
March 1, 2019
Erin Ulrich ’18
Sponsored by the Luce Initiative on Asian Studies and the Environment (LIASE) implementation grant, students, faculty, and staff traveled to China on two winter-term trips.
![Students in the Community-Based Environmental Studies: Hong Kong-U.S. Transnational Partnership and Exchange Winter Term Five students pose at the Kadoori Farm and Botanic Garden in Hong Kong](https://www.oberlin.edu/sites/default/files/styles/fp_w360_h270/public/content/news/image/liase_wt_story_header.jpg?itok=o6rwOemK)
Environmental Studies Students Key Players in Cleveland Foundation Grant
December 17, 2018
Erin Ulrich ’18
With a $120,000 grant from the Cleveland Foundation, Oberlin College faculty and students are implementing Environmental Dashboard technology at the Great Lakes Science Center in Cleveland.
![Practicum in Environmental Communications students at the Great Lakes Science Center John Petersen's students with staff at the Great Lakes Science Center](https://www.oberlin.edu/sites/default/files/styles/fp_w360_h270/public/content/news/image/envs_cle_grant_photo_header.jpg?itok=QCjBysmn)
An Interdisciplinary Approach to Teaching Biochemistry and Ethics
October 29, 2018
Hillary Hempstead
An interdisciplinary module encourages students to think critically about biological and ethical implications of pesticide use.
![Lisa Ryno and Cheryl Cottine two women dressed in regalia at Oberlin Commencement](https://www.oberlin.edu/sites/default/files/styles/fp_w360_h270/public/content/news/image/ryno-cottine.jpg?itok=WCg_Z3Bl)
Community Partnership Focuses on Accessibility in Science
August 7, 2017
Tyler Sloan
Oberlin Associate Professor of Biology Taylor Allen and Peter Ogbuji, executive director of the Harrison Cultural Community Center, cosponsored a camp to make science more creative and accessible to children in Lorain County.
![adults and children working together to build science projects](https://www.oberlin.edu/sites/default/files/styles/fp_w360_h270/public/content/news/image/rs77604_science_dp065.jpg?itok=XhiPfMM6)
Oberlin Selected for HHMI Inclusive Excellence Initiative
June 7, 2017
Communications Staff
Oberlin College is one of 24 colleges and universities nationwide awarded a $1 million grant through the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) 's Inclusive Excellence initiative. The goal of...
![Entrance to the science center.](https://www.oberlin.edu/sites/default/files/styles/fp_w360_h270/public/content/news/image/oberlin_science_center_stock_image-matthew_lester.jpg?itok=7b9xx1H_)