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Oberlin is 4th Among Baccalaureate Institutions for Fulbright Scholars in 2020-21 For the 12th consecutive year, the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA) has recognized Oberlin on its list of U.S. colleges and universities that produced the most Fulbright students. The Chronicle of Higher Education publishes the list annually. Fourteen Oberlin students were recognized as Fulbright Scholars for the 2020-21 academic year, which was the fourth highest among baccalaureate institutions. Fulbright provides fellows with the opportunity to study, teach, and conduct research and exchange ideas around the world. Oberlin scholars gain valuable experience through teaching assistantships and engage in research opportunities through a variety of projects such as working for immigration rights in Guatemala, community-building and
CORRECTIONS: In a class note for Lexie Bean ’13 and their debut middle-grade novel The Ship We Built, we used an incorrect pronoun for Lexie. We regret the error, and are grateful that Lexie was extremely cool about it. Due to an editing error in our story on women’s suffrage, we 6
environmentalism in Germany, studying the impact of foreign languages on learning musical instruments in France, and developing community education opportunities in Colombia. Nicholas Petzak, Oberlin’s director of fellowships and awards, says Fulbright has become a part of Oberlin culture. “When we have 40 or 50 or more applicants in a year, I know that for many Oberlin students, thinking about an application has become a normal part of their educational journey. The entire community of support makes it worth the work of putting together an application, and anyone who applies will have imagined a whole new scope for what is possible to achieve and will be much better equipped to apply for whatever comes next.” Since 1970, more than 250 Oberlin College students have received Fulbright awards.
incorrectly stated that Alice Paul and Doris Stevens were imprisoned together on July 14, 1917. While Stevens was imprisoned on that date along with 15 other suffragists, it was in October of that year that she and Paul were arrested and sent to prison. We also stated that classmates Mary Church Terrell and Anna Julia
Cooper graduated from Oberlin in 1887. Both Terrell and Cooper graduated with bachelor’s degrees in 1884. Cooper received a master’s degree from Oberlin in 1887, and Terrell did in 1888. In the 19th century, Oberlin conferred master’s degrees upon alumni who engaged in literary or scientific pursuits for three or more years after their graduation.
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when university of wisconsin–madison professor Anna Huttenlocher ’83 was selected for the prestigious Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) chair, a named professorship that allows its holder to select the chair’s name, she chose the Anna Ruth Brummett Professor of Pediatrics and Medical Microbiology and Immunology. A biology professor and chair of the department at Oberlin, Brummett was Huttenlocher’s first cell biology teacher and mentor. Brummett, who died in 1985, guided the future physician and scientist through an independent study project writing about cell adhesion and migration, an area that became the focus of Huttenlocher’s research. Huttenlocher, who received an MD from Harvard Medical School and is a member of the National Academy of Medicine and a Fellow of the American Society of Cell Biology for Lifetime Achievement, joins another Oberlin alum, not just in winning the WARF award, but in naming it after her Oberlin professor. In 2019, Helen Blackwell ’94 became the Norman Craig Professor of Chemistry, named for Norman Craig ’53. The WARF award honors faculty who have made major contributions to the advancement of knowledge and is one of the highest honors the University of Wisconsin–Madison bestows.