Of Note: CHARMED BOOK A book published by Oberlin College Press, Angie Estes’ Enchantee, won the $100,000 Kingsley Tufts Award, one of the world’s most generous and presti- gious poetry prizes. This is the fourth book by Estes—who taught for several years in Oberlin’s Creative Writing Program—that Oberlin College Press has published. November 2014. The opera was presented as part of Weill Week at Oberlin, a celebration of the composer that included lectures, talks, films, and a number of performances around campus. The events were supported by a grant from the Kurt Weill Foundation for Music. For more information, visit news. oberlin.edu. LONE STAR STUDENTS Three science students received honors for their presentations at the Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students (ABRCMS) in November 2014 in San Antonio, Texas. The conference includes a program of scientific sessions, professional development work- shops, student oral and poster presenta- tions, and talks by leading scientists. Marisa Aikins, a senior physics major, and Anne Chege, a junior bio- chemistry major, took home prizes for their poster presentations in biophysics and neuro- science, respectively; junior biochemistry major Edmund Korely won the oral competi- tion for presenting the neurotoxicology research he conducted with Assistant Professor Gunnar Kwakye last summer. One of the conference’s featured speakers was Sonia Shah ’90 (pictured, with Marcelo Vinces, who directs the Center for Learning, Education and Research in the Sciences, and Korley), an investigative science and health journalist who spoke about how poverty, war, and environmental disrup- tion led to the wide- spread Ebola outbreak in West Africa. For more information, visit news. oberlin.edu. WELL PRESERVED Oberlin College and Westlake Reed Leskosky are among the recipients of the 2014 State Historic Preservation Merit Awards for the preservation and rehabilitation of the Apollo Theatre. The Preservation Merit Award, presented in October 2014, is for preserving Ohio’s prehistory, history, architecture, or culture. LIFETIME ACHIEVER Oberlin Professor of Percussion Michael Rosen was presented the Lifetime Achieve- ment Award in Educa- tion for 2014 by the Percussive Arts Society. Established in 2002, the award recognizes the contributions of preeminent leaders in percussion education. Rosen was one of two recipients of the award, which was presented at the Percussive Arts Society International Convention held in Indianapolis in November 2014. “I am so grateful to all the students I have had for teaching me and for giving me the honor of allowing me to pass on to them my knowledge and experience,” Rosen said in Indianapolis. “I came to Oberlin with every intention of having a place where I could practice and prepare for my next audition. To my delight, I realized that I had actually found my calling and that teaching was my future.” A member of the Oberlin faculty since 1972, Rosen was princi- pal percussionist of the Milwaukee Symphony from 1966 to 1972, and he has performed with the Cleveland Orchestra and the Concertgebouw Orchestra, among others. Rosen serves as director of Oberlin’s Division of Woodwinds, Brass, and Percussion. In addition to teaching, he conducts the Oberlin Percussion Group and directs the Oberlin Percussion Institute, a summer program open to musicians of high school age and older. DISCOPHORA FEVER Images from They Breathe Iron by Linda Grashoff PRESIDENT IN WEILL SCENE Oberlin College President Marvin Krislov and his wife, Amy Sheon, founding executive director of the Urban Health Initiative at Case Western Reserve University, performed onstage for Oberlin Opera Theater’s production of Kurt Weill’s 1946 opera Street Scene in OBERLIN ALUMNI MAGAZINE 2015 / SPRING 5 KRISLOV: JOHN SEYFRIED; ROSEN: ERICH BURNETT