FEATURED STORIES

• The Apartment Therapist will see you now.

  With his blog Apartment Therapy, Maxwell Ryan ’89 blended his training as a Waldorf educator and his eye for interior design to help people live better lives in small spaces.

• Hamilton After Hamilton

  Oberlin history professor Renee Romano, the editor of a book examining how the Broadway blockbuster Hamilton has changed the public’s perception of the Founding Father, shares an excerpt of her essay from the book.

• Gray Matters

  Elisha Gray invented a telephone, if not the telephone, and a lot more. Emeritus professor of ethnomusicology Roderic Knight looks at the legacy of this alumnus and former Oberlin faculty member.

• Speaking Volumes

  A new academic concentration addresses a new question of the digital age: What makes a book a book?

FROM THE PRESIDENT

• An Honor for Mary Church Terrell—and for Oberlin

OBEREACTIONS

• Two Takes on Two Takes

• Inn Memoriam

• Sonny Disposition

• Treated Well

• Let Oberlin Be Oberlin

AROUND TAPPAN SQUARE

• 10 Years of the Oberlin Summer Theater Festival

• Jazz Class at the Cat

• Andrea Kalyn Named President of New England Conservatory

• Bringing the Voices of Glenville to the FRONT

• Oberlin’s FRONT

• Building an Inclusive Community in Chemistry and Beyond

• Faculty Notes

• Ultimate Victory

THOUGHT PROCESS

• CAS at 15

• Phair Warning

• Reception

• The Spector Sound

• Kid Lit Big Wig

• Now More Than Ever?

• The Next Wave

• Recent Releases

LOSSES

• Faculty, Staff, and Friends

ENDQUOTES

• Michael Meltsner ’57, El Wilson ’18 & more

WEB EXTRAS

• For more photos, videos, and speeches from Commencement/Reunion Weekend 2018, visit our commencement page.

• Watch a video view of the transformation of Barrows room 127 with Apartment Therapy’s Maxwell Ryan ’89.

• Hear a Buckminster Fuller-inspired composition written when Lee Spector '84, a computer sciences professor at Hampshire College, was an Oberlin student.

Staff