Carmen Twillie Ambar Hosts New Podcast</h1> <article> <h1>Carmen Twillie Ambar Hosts New Podcast</h1> <p>eburnett — Wed, 27 Sep 2023 20:03:51 +0000</p> <span>Carmen Twillie Ambar Hosts New Podcast</span> <span><span>eburnett</span></span> <span><time datetime="2023-09-27T16:03:51-04:00" title="Wednesday, September 27, 2023 - 16:03">Wed, 09/27/2023 - 16:03</time> </span> <div class="text-content field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p>For 190 years and counting, 91ֱ�� students and graduates have earned their reputation as engaged citizens dedicated to leading positive change throughout the world.</p> <p>That legacy of commitment serves as the launch pad behind <a href="/news-and-events/running-to-the-noise-podcast"><em>Running to the Noise</em></a>, a new monthly podcast hosted by 91ֱ�� President <a href="/node/48561">Carmen Twillie Ambar</a>.</p> <p><em>Running to the Noise</em> will feature an expansive cross section of 91ֱ�� influencers and others who bring innovative thinking to complex challenges spanning the worlds of entertainment, politics, arts, society, and more.</p> <figure class="captioned-image obj-right"> <figcaption>Ed Helms is the featured guest on the first episode of “Running to the Noise.” (photo by Ron Knerem)</figcaption> </figure> <p>The debut episode, “Using Your Platform for Good,” features actor-comedian Ed Helms, a 1996 91ֱ�� grad and member of 91ֱ��’s Board of Trustees. It drops Thursday, September 28.</p> <p><em>Running to the Noise</em> takes its name from First Lady Michelle Obama’s commencement address to 91ֱ��’s class of 2015, whom she implored to follow 91ֱ��’s history and “run to the noise”—those challenging, often contentious situations that call for clear-headed and impassioned thinkers.<br> <br> “As the first college in America to officially embrace the admission of Black students and the first co-ed school to grant bachelor’s degrees to women, 91ֱ�� has been a leader in shaping necessary change since our founding days,” says Ambar. “We’ve been running to the noise for years, and so I thought that was an apt title for the podcast—and that’s exactly what we’ll do in each episode. Our goal is to learn together as we tackle the tough topics, sprinkling in some laughter for good measure.”</p> <p>Helms is the star of the hit series <em>The Office</em>, the <em>Hangover</em> trilogy, and co-creator and star of the Peacock original series <em>Rutherford Falls</em>, among numerous other projects. In the podcast’s first episode, Helms and Ambar discuss his role in championing diversity in Hollywood; Helms’ new podcast, <em>SNAFU</em>, through which the history nerd explores history’s biggest blunders; and how others can use their platform—however big or small—to promote change in their own ways.</p> <p>A new episode of <em>Running to the Noise</em> will premiere on the final Thursday of each month. Future episodes will feature U.S. diplomat and former longtime president of the Council on Foreign Relations Richard Haass ’73, famed operatic mezzo-soprano and educator Denyce Graves ’85, and others.</p> <p><em>Running to the Noise</em> is available on <a href="/news-and-events/running-to-the-noise-podcast">91ֱ��.edu</a>.</p></div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-subhead field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item">Running to the Noise shines a light on influential thinkers from 91ֱ�� and beyond; premiere episode drops Sep. 28.</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-type field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__item">News Story</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-date field--type-datetime field--label-hidden field__item"><time datetime="2023-09-27T12:00:00Z">Wed, 09/27/2023 - 12:00</time> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-author field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item">Communications Staff</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-tags field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?tag=2577">Office of the President</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?tag=3914">Podcast</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-faculty field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/carmen-twillie-ambar" hreflang="und">Carmen Twillie Ambar</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-pin-school-page field--type-boolean field--label-hidden field__item">Off</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-photo-gallery-top field--type-boolean field--label-hidden field__item">false</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-image-credit field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item">Office of Communications</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-media field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__item"> </div> </article> <article> <h1>“91ֱ�� Opera Theater and the American Dream”</h1> <p>bdenneen — Tue, 28 May 2019 20:28:31 +0000</p> <span>“91ֱ�� Opera Theater and the American Dream”</span> <span><span>bdenneen</span></span> <span><time datetime="2019-05-28T16:28:31-04:00" title="Tuesday, May 28, 2019 - 16:28">Tue, 05/28/2019 - 16:28</time> </span> <div class="text-content field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p>Voice performance majors Shawn Roth ’20 and Katherine Krebs ’20 discuss what it was like to work with composer Missy Mazzoli, who visited the cast and crew in 91ֱ�� during production and for the final two performances.</p> <p>Listen to the episode:</p> <p class="jwp-audio"><script src="https://cdn.jwplayer.com/players/cRlju0QT-AGgmzcYG.js"></script> </p> <p>This episode is narrated by Erin Ulrich, and features an interview with Shawn Roth ’20 and Katherine Krebs ’20. Assistant Professor of Opera Theater Christopher Mirto is also featured.</p> <details><summary> Accessible Transcript</summary> <p>[Theme music playing in background]</p> <p>Erin: “This is <em>An 91ֱ�� Minute,</em> an audio series dedicated to highlighting the inspiring work of 91ֱ�� students, faculty and staff. We’ll be getting an inside look at the pulse of 91ֱ�� by exploring research, performances, and everything in between.”</p> <p>[Environment sounds of opera rehearsal in background]</p> <p>Erin: “We’re going to be hearing from third-year Shawn Roth and fourth-year Katherine Krebs, both of whom performed in the winter-term opera <em>Proving Up</em>, which tells the story of a 19th-century Nebraskan family and the difficulties they face after losing hope in the American dream promised to them by the U.S. Homestead Acts. Composer Missy Mazzoli visited the cast and crew of <em>Proving Up</em> in 91ֱ�� to work on the opera’s production and returned for the final two performances.”</p> <p>Christopher: “The first number, it requires this sort of... [clapping sounds]”</p> <p>Erin: “We attended a rehearsal of <em>Proving Up</em> during winter term and got to take an inside look at the opera, which took place in the student union building. Inside, students share a small stage as director Christopher Mirto guides performers through the production.”</p> <p>Erin: “The set is simple, yet eerie. A stick-frame barn takes center stage, with a wooden swing set and rocking chair at each end of the stage, as well as a grave made of a large tire filled with dirt, plastic flowers and crosses. The empty music stands and chairs during rehearsal are set to feature a 13-piece orchestra.”</p> <p>Shawn: “Well, I’m Shawn Roth. I’m a third-year voice performance major.”</p> <p>Katherine: “And my name is Katherine and I am a fourth-year psychology and voice performance student. I’ve been lucky enough to participate in the operas and do this winter term project, which has been a lot of fun so far. And like Shawn said, we are doing a work that a lot of people have never heard before. It’s only been done I think three times before.”</p> <p>Shawn: “Well, it’s also new.”</p> <p>Katherine: “Right, it’s brand new. Missy Mazzoli is the composer and she was just commissioned to write for the Met.”</p> <p>Shawn: “Mm-hmm. Yeah. We have girls hanging down from the ceilings, you know, singing from the balcony. And that’s just not something that you can do in a regular concert hall, so it’s really kind of refreshing.”</p> <p>Katherine: “Right, it’s a lot of fun to explore a new space and get to do a work that’s not often done.”</p> <p>Shawn: “The advantage here was that, this time, we had Missy come in before we really could really delve into the music. So, we were able to get the clearest ideas of how to interpret this piece from her... you can’t ask Mozart what he meant...why he held the Count’s récit a beat and a half before the act two finale, but you can ask someone like Missy Mazzoli that. But then, you know, you do something that the composer has never seen before and they go, oh, well, you know, actually, I like that. Actually Missy, for this production, told me to include another word and that was really cool because I’m the first person that’s ever going to sing that word and it’s probably going to become standard at some point.”</p> <p>Katherine: “Yeah, Missy has been great and we have still been in contact with her while we are rehearsing, so we’ve been able to ask her questions continuously about staging and just about the music whenever things have come up. It’s been really, really, really helpful to have her feedback and she is so incredible to work with and we are so lucky to have her.”</p> <p>Shawn: “That’s also something that is really cool, is that for the past two winter terms, we’ve had the composers come in and work with us.”</p> <p>Katherine: “We actually got to have dinner with her at the Feve and got to chat with her just as, you know, as if friends would do. So, it was really exciting to get to know her, all about her life, and just her journey as a female composer. And it was really inspiring because we are working with people that are really out there in the field and doing it, and it’s really exciting to see how humble they are and just how intelligent they are and all the information they are willing to share with us is so exciting because we get to just absorb it like sponges.”</p> <p>Shawn: “What’s really great about 91ֱ�� is that like most conservatories, it’s all music, all day, so everything you do is relevant to what you want to be doing when you are here. Operas at 91ֱ�� are pretty much the only way to prepare you for operas anywhere else. And one of the major pros that you get coming here is that there are no grad students. There’s artist diploma students, but there’s only two or three of those at any given time, so all the opportunities, virtually all of them go to people like you, an undergrad. And that is quintessential for developing experience and you just wouldn’t get that anywhere else, especially a school with grad students, because you need to develop the experience now.”</p> <p>Shawn: “And again, being fortunate enough to actually experience professional rehearsals at my time in 91ֱ�� with the Cleveland Orchestra, it’s the same process. Everybody shows up prepared, everybody is ready to work, and I just simply wouldn’t have been prepared for anything professional if I hadn’t already cultivated that and experienced it at 91ֱ�� first.”</p> <p>Katherine: “And another special thing about 91ֱ�� is the fact that we aren’t just a conservatory, we have the college, too. So, me being a part of both, I just feel like it’s really cultivated my knowledge...I’ve been able to really feel like I’m ready for the real world and... I’m ready to dive in.”</p> <p>Erin: “To learn more about what takes place at 91ֱ��, visit www.oberlin.edu/news. A big thank you to our student workers. The audio for this episode was engineered by Vu Nguyen and Claudia Hinsdale. Interviews were conducted by Erin Ulrich and sound design and theme music were composed by Piper Hill and Claudia Hinsdale.” </p> <p>[Theme music plays in background]</p> <p>Erin: “Our graphic designer is Andrea Wang, and this episode was coproduced by Yvonne Gay and Erin Ulrich in the Office of Communications. Special thanks to our consultant and 91ֱ��’s digital media engineer, Kyle Hartzell. This has been <em>An 91ֱ�� Minute</em>. Thanks for listening.”</p> </details> <style type="text/css">.cke_editable .jwp-audio { border: 2px dotted #662222; background-color: #eee; } </style></div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-type field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__item">News Story</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-date field--type-datetime field--label-hidden field__item"><time datetime="2019-07-08T12:00:00Z">Mon, 07/08/2019 - 12:00</time> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-author field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item">Communications Staff</div> <div class="text-content field field--name-field-intro-text field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field__item"><p>Inside the student union building, a stick frame barn and makeshift grave marked by a tire set the scene for 91ֱ�� Opera Theater’s production of <a href="/node/129936" target="_blank"><em>Proving Up</em></a>.</p></div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-tags field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?tag=3283">An 91ֱ�� Minute</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?tag=3914">Podcast</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-programs field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?program=35596">Voice</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?program=25286">Psychology</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?program=32971">Opera Theater</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-departments field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/conservatory/divisions/vocal-studies" hreflang="und">Vocal Studies</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/arts-and-sciences/departments/psychology" hreflang="und">Psychology</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-pin-school-page field--type-boolean field--label-hidden field__item">Off</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-photo-gallery-top field--type-boolean field--label-hidden field__item">false</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-image-credit field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item">Illustration by Andrea Wang ’19</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-media field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__item"> </div> </article> <article> <h1>“Searching for Dark Matter (From 91ֱ��)”</h1> <p>bdenneen — Tue, 28 May 2019 20:11:18 +0000</p> <span>“Searching for Dark Matter (From 91ֱ��)”</span> <span><span>bdenneen</span></span> <span><time datetime="2019-05-28T16:11:18-04:00" title="Tuesday, May 28, 2019 - 16:11">Tue, 05/28/2019 - 16:11</time> </span> <div class="text-content field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p>Park and Tandon take a break from searching for dark matter to share their excitement with us and let us in on their research process.</p> <p>Listen to the episode:</p> <p class="jwp-audio"><script src="https://cdn.jwplayer.com/players/3twkO68q-AGgmzcYG.js"></script></p> <details open><summary> Accessible Transcript </summary> <p>This episode is narrated by Erin Ulrich, and features an interview with Sunyool Park ’19 and Dhruv Tandon ’22. Associate Professor of Physics Jason Stalnaker is also featured.</p> <p>[Theme music playing in background]</p> <p>Erin: “This is <em>An 91ֱ�� Minute</em>, an audio series dedicated to highlighting the inspiring work of 91ֱ�� students, faculty and staff. We’ll be getting an inside look at the pulse of 91ֱ�� by exploring research, performances, and everything in between.”</p> <p>[Background noises, voices of students working in the lab]</p> <p>Erin: “We’re going to be hearing from two student researchers in Associate Professor of Physics Jason Stalnaker’s lab over winter term whose research involves looking for ultralight axion-like particles that are candidates for dark matter and get a closer look at the inner workings of the lab.”</p> <p>Dhruv: “So, my name is Dhruv. I’m a first-year. I’m a physics major. I will be a physics major. It was really generous of Jason to allow me to work in this lab. I’m from India and I didn’t want to go home for just a month and I wanted to explore things and then I just emailed Jason and he was like yeah sure, come and we can talk about it, yes. He said yeah, you should come to my lab and then you will learn during the process.”</p> <p>Sun: “I’m Sun, I’m class of 2019, so I’m a senior now. I actually got involved with Jason’s lab during a winter term my second year.” </p> <p>Sun: “We’re part of this collaboration which is called GNOME, the Global Network of Optical Magnetometers to search for Exotic Physics and we’re specifically looking for ultralight axion-like particles which are a candidate for dark matter. So, the idea is that these particles would interact with spins of elementary particles—ultralight axion-like particles. When they do interact, we would be able to detect it with a magnetometer. A magnetometer is an instrument that measures magnetic fields. So, we have multiple magnetometers throughout the world. All of our data are uploaded to a server and they are all GPS time-stamped, which means we would know exactly when an event happened, so we can also study the correlations of the signals at multiple locations throughout the world and then that would allow us to say more about the particles. Even if we don’t see anything, we can start constraining the model. We are working towards building a more sensitive magnetometer.” [Laughter]</p> <p>Sun: “Sorry, was that simple enough?”</p> <p>Erin: “Perfect. [Laughter]</p> <p>Dhruv: “It was really simple. [Laughter]”</p> <p>Erin: “For you personally, what’s the most exciting part of doing physics research?”</p> <p>Sun: “Doing research for winter term is really great because during the semester, if you are doing research, you maybe go in once or twice a week for a very limited amount of time because you have school. So, you do things, but it’s not as fast as it could be. So, during winter term, you basically work all day in research, you see progress, because it’s going really fast. And I really enjoy that and I really enjoy the fact that I can really get involved in the experiment.”</p> <p>Dhruv: “As a first-year, I had no experience about research, so I was...really nervous when Jason said I can do it. But it’s been really good learning new things every day and just to know there are a lot of things in the research that even the professor don’t even know and that makes it really exciting for me. There are so many things that we don’t know about and I don’t know...as a first-year, I just learn so many things every day, which are sometimes they are simple and sometimes they are really complex—I don’t get anything—but it’s just fun for me.”</p> <p>Erin: “Can you sort of walk me through just a typical day in the lab during winter term?”</p> <p>Sun: “I would get to Wright, the physics building around nine and I enjoy a cup of coffee, because I need coffee. [Laughter] Sometimes we would all as a research team talk about plans for the day or for the week...then we come up with a plan for the rest of the day and we go into the lab and we do the experiment.” </p> <p>Erin: “So, you are pretty much working and doing research the entire day?”</p> <p>Sun: “Yes.”</p> <p>Erin: “In addition to working in the lab, Dhruv and Sun regularly check in with the GNOME collaboration, which includes partners in North America, Europe, China, and Korea.”</p> <p>Sun: “So, we have Skype meetings twice a week and then one is with the whole collaboration around the world. The other one is just with the people in these States.”</p> <p>Sun: “So right now, that is where the beam is.”</p> <p>Erin: “Sun and Dhruv also shared with us how their research relates to their academic and postgraduate plans, as well as the most impactful parts of participating in this research. “</p> <p>Dhruv: “Working in the lab and keep learning more stuff like that...”</p> <p>Sun: “I think I have always had an idea that I want to go to grad school after college and I knew that I really liked physics, so I wanted to do something physics-related. Having this experience in his lab sort of guided me to want to pursue a PhD or even a career in atomic physics, so I recently have applied to a bunch of PhD programs in atomic physics.”</p> <p>Erin: “What’s been really the most impactful part of being able to do this, to sort of pursue what you would maybe want to do after you graduate for a career and explore different projects outside of the classroom?”</p> <p>Dhruv: “So, as I said earlier, this is my first winter term. It helped me a lot to form ideas about what actually research looked like, because in the classes and from my high school, I thought...I had no idea what research is like and what people do in lab. Working in this lab, I realized what actually goes on in the lab and how people work in it...I don’t know, it shaped my perspective about research. It motivated me to keep doing research in future years.”</p> <p>Sun: “You can see where the beam is. It’s a little bit too high right now...”</p> <p>Erin: “To learn more about what takes place at 91ֱ��, visit www.oberlin.edu/news. A big thank you to our student workers. The audio for this episode was engineered by Sarah Goodstein, Piper Hill and Molly Thayer.”</p> <p>[Theme music plays in background]</p> <p>Erin: “Interviews were conducted by Erin Ulrich and sound design and theme music were composed by Piper Hill and Claudia Hinsdale. Our graphic designer is Andrea Wang, and this episode was coproduced by Yvonne Gay and Erin Ulrich in the Office of Communications. Special thanks to our consultant and 91ֱ��’s digital media engineer, Kyle Hartzell. This has been <em>An 91ֱ�� Minute</em>. Thanks for listening.”</p> </details></div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-type field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__item">News Story</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-date field--type-datetime field--label-hidden field__item"><time datetime="2019-07-03T12:00:00Z">Wed, 07/03/2019 - 12:00</time> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-author field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item">Communications Staff</div> <div class="text-content field field--name-field-intro-text field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field__item"><p>Physics students Sunyool Park ’19 and Dhruv Tandon ’22 are looking for ultralight axion-light particles, which are candidates for dark matter.</p></div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-tags field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?tag=3283">An 91ֱ�� Minute</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?tag=3914">Podcast</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-programs field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?program=25411">Physics</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-faculty field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/jason-stalnaker" hreflang="und">Jason Stalnaker</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-departments field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/arts-and-sciences/departments/physics-and-astronomy" hreflang="und">Physics and Astronomy</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-pin-school-page field--type-boolean field--label-hidden field__item">Off</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-photo-gallery-top field--type-boolean field--label-hidden field__item">false</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-image-credit field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item">Illustration by Andrea Wang ’19</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-media field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__item"> </div> </article> <article> <h1>“From the Classroom to the Boardroom”</h1> <p>bdenneen — Tue, 28 May 2019 20:35:43 +0000</p> <span>“From the Classroom to the Boardroom”</span> <span><span>bdenneen</span></span> <span><time datetime="2019-05-28T16:35:43-04:00" title="Tuesday, May 28, 2019 - 16:35">Tue, 05/28/2019 - 16:35</time> </span> <div class="text-content field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p>During the program’s on-campus winter term intensive, business scholars discuss everything from the influence of personality type on group participation to their future career plans.</p> <p>Listen to the episode:</p> <p class="jwp-audio"><script src="https://cdn.jwplayer.com/players/d5nIEd31-AGgmzcYG.js"></script> </p> <details><summary> Accessible Transcript </summary> <p>This episode is narrated by Erin Ulrich, and features interviews with Rut Merida ’20 and Miles Zhang ’21. Assistant Director of Career Readiness and Professional Development Sylvia Rios, program coach Patrick Keebler, and students in the Business Scholars program are also featured.</p> <p>[Theme music playing in background]</p> <p>Erin: “This is <em>An 91ֱ�� Minute</em>, an audio series dedicated to highlighting the inspiring work of 91ֱ�� students, faculty and staff. We’ll be getting an inside look at the pulse of 91ֱ�� by exploring research, performances, and everything in between.”</p> <p>Erin: “We’ll take an inside look into the Ashby Business Scholars Program at 91ֱ��, which provides students with the tools and support they need to secure professional experiences in business fields. We’ll talk with student participants in the program during their on-campus winter term intensive on business professionalism and networking before they set out to meet alumni companies and friends of the college in Cleveland, New York City, and San Francisco.”</p> <p>[Background noises, students talking in group discussion]</p> <p>Erin: “Just down the hall from the Career Development Center, Patrick Keebler, who served as one of the Business Scholars program coaches from the Career Development Center this winter term, leads students in group discussion.”</p> <p>Unidentified student: “You have the ability like 10 minutes before a presentation to change something or if something comes up you can change to meet that specific thing.”</p> <p>Unidentified student: “I think what I can bring to the group is, if the group is too focused on the objective and not just cutting off those who are not contributing more...not catching up to speed, I can assist...be like...oh, maybe so-and-so has some input that would be valuable, so that will be useful for the group.” </p> <p>Patrick: “That’s a really good point, Spencer, because what happens in groups—and you are already picking up on this—is that you can start to serve as translators for each other, you can sort of like, oh I understand where he’s coming from, this is what he is trying to say or this is what she’s trying to get across, so that’s part of what happens with these dynamics.”</p> <p>Patrick: “So, this is kind of their professional development week, this is building up to when they travel over the next two weeks. Today was all about understanding their personality type as it relates to their participation on the team, and so they are understanding better about how they contribute to the team, what some of their blind spots might be as it relates to their participation on the team, and they are also learning about the team as a collective whole—what the team’s personality type is, kind of how they work together, what the team kind of has as far strengths moving forward, and what are some of the things I think they need to be aware...of as far as limitations are concerned.”</p> <p>Unidentified student: “Interesting that you guys focused on introversion vs extroversion, because we didn’t really discuss that as much. We discussed how judging versus...no...it might have been perceiving versus judging...but it was more like sensing....it was how we take criticism and how we communicate with each other. And I think because there’s a lot of people who think in the general group here...we feel like, oh, because we don’t take criticism personally, everyone’s just like that, and we can be harsh and not really be empathetic towards our teammates. But it is equally as important to care about the feeling part, so that is something that everyone needs to keep in mind when communicating with each other, giving feedback, giving criticism. Because the world runs on people and people run on feelings, instead of just complete...”</p> <p>Rut: “So my name is Rut Merida. I am a third-year Posse Scholar majoring in economics and minoring in comparative American studies. I joined the Business Scholars because I’ve always had this interest in working with numbers and to get more exposure within that. I have a broad interest in finance, which I’m hoping to learn more about through this program, since we do visit so many different people and learn about the jobs that they do. So, I thought it was a very interesting program to learn more about the things that I may be interested in doing.”</p> <p>Erin: “Sylvia Rios is the assistant director of career readiness and professional development in the Career Center.”</p> <p>Sylvia: “So, I’ve been really lucky in getting to work with some awesome students and I’ve seen a lot of transformations take place when it comes to maybe public speaking or just really being able to get it, where they feel almost surprised that they get accepted into the program and the program....throughout whether it’s just working on a team with their peers or getting that interaction with alumni and friends of the college, they get this increased confidence in their abilities and in their awareness of these different opportunities that are available to them. Every year, students from 91ֱ�� go to big companies like Google and Facebook and larger finance firms and banks like Morgan Stanley, and so being able to see alumni within these roles, and see how they’ve combined their personal interests in social justice, in music maybe, in a lot of different arenas—politics—and how they were able to stay authentic and be themselves in these roles—in finance or in tech industries—is really important. I think...being able to see yourself in these roles, to see people that are very much like you.”</p> <p>Erin: “Miles Zhang is a sophomore in the Business Scholars program double majoring in economics and environmental studies.” </p> <p>Miles: “I think that coming to a place like 91ֱ��, you’re naturally going to be a person who has their own interests and passions and loves exploring them and pursuing them. I think winter term is basically the perfect opportunity to do that, you know. It’s a monthlong period where you have access to a ton of different resources and you can use it however you want to, pretty much. I think at any liberal arts school, people can think that there is sometimes a de-emphasis on preprofessionalism and I think that this is also a great opportunity for that, because it gives you another time...You can intern places or, you know, do a program like this that teaches you these skills that are going to be very useful in life. So, basically any way that you kind of see your life going after college, winter term is a way to kind of explore that and pursue that and try new things...It’s just one of the best parts of 91ֱ�� for me personally. Last winter term, I worked at this environmental advocacy group and I got to see what it is actually like working at a place like that and what I might be doing in the future. And that’s something that I wouldn’t normally have any opportunity to do at another place.”</p> <p>Erin: “To learn more about what takes place at 91ֱ��, visit www.oberlin.edu/news. A big thank you to our student workers. The audio for this episode was engineered and produced by Daniel Markus and Claudia Hinsdale. Interviews were conducted by Erin Ulrich and sound design and theme music were composed by Piper Hill and Claudia Hinsdale.” </p> <p>[Theme music plays in background]</p> <p>Erin: “Our graphic designer is Andrea Wang, and this episode was coproduced by Yvonne Gay and Erin Ulrich in the Office of Communications. Special thanks to our consultant and 91ֱ��’s digital media engineer, Kyle Hartzell. This has been <em>An 91ֱ�� Minute</em>. Thanks for listening.”</p> </details> <style type="text/css">.cke_editable .jwp-audio { border: 2px dotted #662222; background-color: #eee; } </style></div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-type field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__item">News Story</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-date field--type-datetime field--label-hidden field__item"><time datetime="2019-06-27T12:00:00Z">Thu, 06/27/2019 - 12:00</time> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-author field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item">Communications Staff</div> <div class="text-content field field--name-field-intro-text field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field__item"><p>Students in 91ֱ��’s <a href="/node/54566" target="_blank">Ashby Business Scholars Program</a> gain real-world skills in professionalism and networking.</p></div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-tags field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?tag=3283">An 91ֱ�� Minute</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?tag=3914">Podcast</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?tag=3955">Ashby Business Scholars</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-programs field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?program=25311">Comparative American Studies</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?program=25341">Economics</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?program=25351">Environmental Studies and Sciences</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-departments field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/arts-and-sciences/departments/comparative-american-studies" hreflang="und">Comparative American Studies</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/arts-and-sciences/departments/economics" hreflang="und">Economics</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/arts-and-sciences/departments/environmental-studies" hreflang="und">Environmental Studies and Science</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-pin-school-page field--type-boolean field--label-hidden field__item">Off</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-photo-gallery-top field--type-boolean field--label-hidden field__item">false</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-image-credit field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item">Illustration by Andrea Wang ’19</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-media field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__item"> </div> </article> <article> <h1>‘‘Diving into the Art World’’</h1> <p>bdenneen — Tue, 28 May 2019 19:49:27 +0000</p> <span>‘‘Diving into the Art World’’</span> <span><span>bdenneen</span></span> <span><time datetime="2019-05-28T15:49:27-04:00" title="Tuesday, May 28, 2019 - 15:49">Tue, 05/28/2019 - 15:49</time> </span> <div class="text-content field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p>We got to listen to students in the course showcase their expertise during their final presentations on a piece of their choosing in the museum’s collection.</p> <p>Listen to the episode:</p> <p class="jwp-audio"><script src="https://cdn.jwplayer.com/players/jATBkG7e-AGgmzcYG.js"></script></p> <details><summary> Accessible Transcript </summary> <p>This episode is narrated by Erin Ulrich, and includes interviews with Audrey Libatique ’22, Leina Fieleke ’21, and Walker Shadle ’19.</p> <p>[Theme music playing in background]</p> <p>Erin: This is “An 91ֱ�� Minute,” an audio series dedicated to highlighting the inspiring work of 91ֱ�� students, faculty and staff. We’ll be getting an inside look at the pulse of 91ֱ�� by exploring research, performances, and everything in between.</p> <p>Erin: In this episode, we are going to be taking a closer look at the Practicum in Museum Education winter term in the Allen Memorial Art Museum. This course provides students with an in-depth exploration of the museum’s collection, as well as an introduction to museum education and gallery teaching. Students will not only learn about career paths in the arts, but also develop an object talk at the culmination of the winter term.</p> <p>[Background noises from interviews]</p> <p>Erin: We interviewed three students in the practicum who shared their experiences in the course.</p> <p>Audrey: “So, I took a class in Western art history my first semester and I really loved it, and I thought it was really inspiring.”</p> <p>Erin: Audrey Libatique is a first-year at 91ֱ��.</p> <p>Audrey: “So, coming into 91ֱ��, I sort of knew I liked museums because I had an internship where I lived in L.A. in the museum education program there and I knew that I liked that, so when I came here and I knew there was this great museum, I wanted to be involved. And then I saw this winter term and I was like, that’s perfect. This course is oriented both toward docent training and toward... career paths. So, I think that one of the really important things it does is that is allows people to come in who work at the Allen and sort of in other places to talk about their jobs. It’s really important to have the ability to sort of talk to people in the field about what they do. And then the second part is there’s been a lot of mock job interviews or talking about ... how you get your resume. And I’ve been considering things in career paths that I haven’t considered before and have been thinking a lot about what it means to have an art career.</p> <p>Audrey: “I had never thought about working in a museum education program and I think this has opened my eyes to... how much is done in it, and I think that’s really exciting.”</p> <p>Audrey: “The amount of avenues you have just by studying art is really incredible. I did an object talk and I chose the Yoruba Torso Mask, which is the one in the ambulatory.”</p> <p>Audrey: “It’s a torso piece of a woman’s chest ... a pregnant woman. It’s for a festival called the Gelede, which is in Yoruba, in Nigeria, and the whole concept of that is to honor mothers.”</p> <p>Leina: “I took Themes in Western Art with Erik Inglis my first semester and I went to Erik’s office hours and I was like, I don’t know if I love you as a teacher or if I love art history, and he was like, well there’s no harm in taking another class. So, I took another class and then I also really loved that class, and so I kind of just kept going.”</p> <p>Erin: Leina Fieleke is a sophomore and an art history and psychology double major.</p> <p>Leina: “I think it is really different to say, oh, this is what museum education is like and then on the other hand, to meet different people who are working in museum education and seeing their similarities or even their differences and how maybe you could or couldn’t fit into that kind of job or with those kinds of people.</p> <p>Leina: “I was listening to a podcast the other day where this woman was saying she never wanted people to feel not intelligent enough to learn and I think taking this practicum has made me think a lot more about that and how museums can seem like spaces that aren’t for everyone, but I’m working to make that...I guess maybe seem less as...a hoity-toity image...and a place to learn and that no one is not smart enough to learn.” </p> <p>[Sounds of feet crunching on snow, people talking in background]</p> <p>Walker: “It’s just all white, fresh snow.”</p> <p>Erin: “Okay, is this it?” </p> <p>Walker: “Yeah, so, low ceiling for the carport, no garage, just goes right…”</p> <p>Erin: “During the winter term, we sat down with Walker Shadle, a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences who also gave us a tour of the Frank Lloyd Wright house in 91ֱ��, in which part of the Practicum in Museum Education course takes place.” </p> <p>Walker: “Art is a very interesting way to study history and for me, it really grounds things in the way that other methods don’t. I’ve just had a really great collection of professors too...so, the Allen, I’ve always known about, obviously. It was one of the main reasons I chose 91ֱ��...and so we talked to a couple of curators, we’ve talked to Nick Petzak from the fellowships side of things and Katie Solender, who is the interim director of the museum right now. It’s been a really rich volume of people. The way I think of it is, I’ve done a fair number of extracurricular stuff, but most of the career exploration I’ve done has been in the classroom. So, as I mentioned before, I’ve done a fair amount of work in the psychology department, which I’ve really, really valued and has helped me a lot in my art history major. I am among some of the only students here who have one major and no minor.”</p> <p>Walker: “Is everyone situated? Okay.”</p> <p>Erin: We sat in on students’ final presentations, in which they practiced giving an object talk on a piece of their choosing in the museum’s collection.</p> <p>Walker: “The young woman here, who is special—indicated by both her crown and her halo—Mary with the halo, and Jesus who has a halo and then two angels. And so, this whole marital ceremony happened in a vision. It’s a symbolic marriage between St. Catherine, who devoted herself to Christianity and... the infant Christ. As an architect, Peruzzi had to do a lot of shape rendering and negotiations of geometrical forms. There are so many little circles...there’s a window there that’s circular and halos...”</p> <p>Erin: “To learn more about what takes place at 91ֱ��, visit <a href="/node/26" target="_blank">www.oberlin.edu/news</a>. A big thank you to our student workers. The audio for this episode was engineered by Molly Thayer, Vu Nguyen, and Piper Hill. “</p> <p>[Theme music plays in background]</p> <p>Erin: “Interviews were conducted by Erin Ulrich and sound design and theme music were composed by Piper Hill and Claudia Hinsdale. Our graphic designer is Andrea Wang and this episode was coproduced by Yvonne Gay and Erin Ulrich in the Office of Communications. Special thanks to our consultant and 91ֱ��’s digital media engineer Kyle Hartzell. This has been ‘An 91ֱ�� Minute.’ Thanks for listening.”</p> </details></div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-type field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__item">News Story</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-date field--type-datetime field--label-hidden field__item"><time datetime="2019-06-20T12:00:00Z">Thu, 06/20/2019 - 12:00</time> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-author field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item">Communications Staff</div> <div class="text-content field field--name-field-intro-text field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field__item"><p>Audrey Libatique ’22, Leina Fieleke ’21, and Walker Shadle ’19 share how the <a href="https://amam.oberlin.edu" target="_blank">Allen Memorial Art Museum</a>‘s Practicum in Museum Education course helped them think about careers in the art world.</p></div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-tags field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?tag=3283">An 91ֱ�� Minute</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?tag=2378">Allen Memorial Art Museum</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?tag=2402">Winter Term</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?tag=3914">Podcast</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-programs field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?program=25301">Art History</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?program=25286">Psychology</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-faculty field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/erik-inglis" hreflang="und">Erik Inglis ’89</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-departments field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/arts-and-sciences/departments/art" hreflang="und">Studio Art</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/arts-and-sciences/departments/psychology" hreflang="und">Psychology</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-pin-school-page field--type-boolean field--label-hidden field__item">Off</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-photo-gallery-top field--type-boolean field--label-hidden field__item">false</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-image-credit field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item">Illustration by Andrea Wang ’19</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-media field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__item"> </div> </article> </main></body></html>