Student Voter Registration Campaign Yields Large Turnout</h1> <article> <h1>Student Voter Registration Campaign Yields Large Turnout</h1> <p>ygay — Thu, 22 Oct 2020 16:47:31 +0000</p> <span>Student Voter Registration Campaign Yields Large Turnout</span> <span><span>ygay</span></span> <span><time datetime="2020-10-22T12:47:31-04:00" title="Thursday, October 22, 2020 - 12:47">Thu, 10/22/2020 - 12:47</time> </span> <div class="text-content field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p>In an effort to bolster student participation <a href="/oc-votes" target="_blank">OC Votes</a>—a nonpartisan website that explores the issues important to the 2020 election—was launched by the <a href="/dean-of-students" target="_blank">Office of the Dean of Students</a>. Through this platform students were informed of educational programming, local candidates, and ballot issues in �鶹��Ƶ and in their home communities. The website provides a wealth of resources for students, including search tools to find polling locations and to check the status of absentee ballot registration; information on local candidates and ballot issues in �鶹��Ƶ and students' home communities; and a calendar of events related to the election. Students who had not yet registered in Ohio were also encouraged to visit one of 12 voter registration stands placed around campus. And<a href="https://goyeo.com/news/2020/9/9/general-oberlin-athletics-announces-voting-initiative.aspx" target="_blank"> Yeo the Vote</a>, a voting initiative by the Department of Athletics, had more than 400 student athletes register to vote.</p> <p>Thanks to all of these efforts, �鶹��Ƶ was recently awarded a $1,000 grant from Ohio's Campus Vote Project, according to Wayne Wood, director of Student Life Auxiliaries and Special Projects. �鶹��Ƶ was one of only 12 colleges in Ohio to earn this award. The grant will allow the college to create further engagement efforts around OC Votes.</p> <p>“I'm collaborating with colleagues from the Great Lakes Colleges Association on voting efforts and have been able to report that—thanks to our own students, staff, and faculty—we are leading the way among our peers in voter registration efforts and election engagement,” says Wood. “In spite of COVID-19 safety precautions, which have limited our ability to register students to vote in person and to hold in-person seminars and support sessions, our calendar is offering a robust series of events leading up to Election Day and after.”</p> <p>Election Day watch parties, a faculty panel reflecting on results from election night, including any delay in results if the race has not been called, as well as community de-stressing sessions on Zoom, will be held shortly after votes are cast on November 3. </p> <p>“I am confident that the momentum created by OC Votes will last long after the election and will be a way to keep civics and service top-of-mind among the �鶹��Ƶ community,” says Wood. </p> <p><br> </p></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="2020-10-22T12:00:00Z">Thu, 10/22/2020 - 12:00</time> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-author field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item">Yvonne Gay</div> <div class="text-content field field--name-field-intro-text field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field__item"><p>After a registration campaign that included educational programming and department efforts, 1,432 students will exercise their new voting privileges starting with the presidential election in November. </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=3494">OC Votes</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?tag=2582">Science Library</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/politics" hreflang="und">Politics</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-image-caption field--type-string-long field--label-hidden field__item">Brigit Cann ’21, a student worker at the Science Center library, counts voter registration forms.</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">Yvonne Gay</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-media field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__item"> </div> </article> <article> <h1>A Conversation with Alison Ricker, Science Librarian</h1> <p>anagy — Thu, 11 Apr 2019 14:50:46 +0000</p> <span>A Conversation with Alison Ricker, Science Librarian</span> <span><span>anagy</span></span> <span><time datetime="2019-04-11T10:50:46-04:00" title="Thursday, April 11, 2019 - 10:50">Thu, 04/11/2019 - 10:50</time> </span> <div class="text-content field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p><strong>When did you begin working at �鶹��Ƶ? Have you always been the science librarian, or did you work in other areas?</strong></p> <p>I was hired as science librarian in July 1983, just as the college was winding down the 150th anniversary celebrations and gearing up for the inauguration of Fred Starr as president. My position title was changed to Head, Science Library during a reorganization of the libraries in 2017. I never thought I would be in the same position for 35-plus years, but academic librarianship is continually changing, so what I do now is very different from the work I did when I was hired. That keeps it fresh and interesting.</p> <p><strong>What inspired you to pursue a career in librarianship? Did you previously have a science background?</strong></p> <p>My bachelor’s is in biology, with an emphasis on ecology. My honors project was on overwintering of invertebrates in a river floodplain in northern Michigan, and I intended to pursue a PhD in ecology. Life circumstances took me to Rhode Island, where I took a course at the URI Graduate School of Oceanography and spent a lot of time in their delightful marine science library. There I learned that librarians with a science background were in short supply and that I could find an interesting job combining science and librarianship if I obtained a master’s in library and information science. It was going to be a short-term pursuit, but I found that my first job, as an oceanographic research librarian, was so much fun I wanted to stick with it.</p> <p><strong>What does your typical day at �鶹��Ƶ look like? What are the different ways you support students and faculty?</strong></p> <p>My days are varied and generally include some time at our service desk answering questions and doing whatever is needed to connect library users with the information resources they need. Working directly with students or faculty, either one-on-one or in the classroom, is the best part of any day. More often, I’m working behind the scenes to select materials for the collection, promote their use in as many ways possible (via four social media accounts, website updates, email and displays), and manage the library so it is both a source of information and inspiration. That includes supervision and collaboration with many other staff members—these days, a well-run library is very dependent on intersecting networks of people and resources.</p> <p><strong>You are leading a Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon for Citizen Science Day on <a href="/events/citizen_science_day_wikipedia_edit-thon">Sunday, April 14</a>. What is the mission behind this event, and what will volunteers be doing? </strong></p> <p>We will celebrate citizen science by adding needed references to science-related articles, and looking for peer-reviewed, open access sources. Participants will gain experience in evaluating Wikipedia articles for completeness, accuracy, and bias as they review articles with <em>[citation needed]</em> tags, and search for relevant sources that confirm or clarify unsupported statements. Accurate communication of scientific research findings is an essential component of the scientific method. Participation in this process of documentation is one way we can all be citizen scientists and help make Wikipedia even more useful for the general reader. </p> <p><strong>Tell us something about yourself that most people don’t know.</strong></p> <p>I am a volunteer reviewer for <em>Choice</em>, an organization that publishes brief reviews of scholarly or academic works most relevant for higher education. The really cool thing about that is getting to keep any books I review and donating them to the science library. Despite that opportunity, I rarely read books at work and don’t know any librarian who does—there simply isn’t time! I just want to debunk the notion that librarians read all day long.</p> <p> </p></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="2019-04-11T12:00:00Z">Thu, 04/11/2019 - 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>As the head of �鶹��Ƶ’s science library, Alison Ricker works behind the scenes in myriad ways. This weekend, in observance of <a href="https://www.citizenscience.org/2016/03/31/citizen-science-day-and-our-inspired-unnamed-movement/">Citizen Science Day</a>, she will lead a volunteer effort to evaluate science-related Wikipedia articles.</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=2582">Science Library</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?tag=2764">Science Center</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?tag=2597">Faculty and Staff</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-image-caption field--type-string-long field--label-hidden field__item">Alison Ricker has been an invaluable resource to science students and faculty for more than 35 years.</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">Tanya Rosen-Jones</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-media field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__item"> </div> </article> <article> <h1>What I Didn’t Say: A Collaborative, Interdisciplinary Sound Art Installation</h1> <p>eulrich — Fri, 12 Oct 2018 17:36:16 +0000</p> <span>What I Didn’t Say: A Collaborative, Interdisciplinary Sound Art Installation</span> <span><span>eulrich</span></span> <span><time datetime="2018-10-12T13:36:16-04:00" title="Friday, October 12, 2018 - 13:36">Fri, 10/12/2018 - 13:36</time> </span> <div class="text-content field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p><em>What I Didn’t Say</em> is an upcoming sound art installation designed by Technical Director and Lecturer in TIMARA Abby Aresty and supported by students, staff, and faculty of the program at �鶹��Ƶ. The installation is a collaborative piece that explores the various experiences of women and non-binary individuals working in male-dominated STEAM fields. <a href="/node/75921" target="_blank">TIMARA</a> is �鶹��Ƶ Conservatory’s Technology in Music and Related Arts program.</p> <p>The premise of <em>What I Didn’t Say</em> arose out of a need to bring underrepresented voices to the foreground and to create a space to explore topics of diversification in those fields. Aresty conceived of the idea for the installation after attending an event organized by Nicollette Mitchell ’13, director of �鶹��Ƶ’s Center for Learning, Education, and Research (CLEAR), and Jillian Scudder, assistant professor of physics at �鶹��Ƶ. The event inspired Aresty to continue the conversation of representation through hands-on, collaborative approaches.</p> <p>“In order to build a sustainable model for the gender diversification of STEAM fields, we need to create meaningful opportunities for these voices to be heard,” says Aresty. “I hope that the installation, which invites visitors to actively seek out and listen to underrepresented voices, will provide one such opportunity.”</p> <p>The installation itself is a paper quilt made up of handmade electromagnets, with each electromagnet driven by the audio playback of brief voice recordings. Each voice recording will be a response to the prompt: “When ‘x’ happened, what I didn’t say was…”. Visitors to the installation will be given headphones and audio equipment to listen to these recordings. Aresty notes that, using the equipment provided, the voices should be heard clearly and the messages deciphered easily. At the same time, however, there will be a significant amount of background noise still present. “Rather than being an unwanted nuisance,” she says, “this interference seems a poignant reminder of the way in which these unspoken thoughts can be lost or forgotten in the din of everyday life.”</p> <p>As a collective effort, the installation will be built by participants, including students and faculty from art and science departments at �鶹��Ƶ, at a workshop preceding the installation. Aresty anticipates that the workshop will encourage dialogue across disciplines and foster a sense of community among non-binary individuals and women in STEAM fields.</p> <p>“We are so busy with work in our own disciplines, we rarely have the opportunity to have these important conversations across disciplines,” says Aresty. “The goal for the workshop is to provide the space and time required for these conversations.”</p> <p><em>What I Didn’t Sa</em>y will be on display October <a href="https://calendar.oberlin.edu/event/what_i_didnt_say#.W7UFgS2ZOu4" target="_blank">13</a>, <a href="https://calendar.oberlin.edu/event/what_i_didnt_say_-_sound_art_installation#.W7UFny2ZOu4" target="_blank">15</a>, and <a href="https://calendar.oberlin.edu/event/what_i_didnt_say_-_sound_art_installation_1837#.W7UFui2ZOu4" target="_blank">16</a> in the science library.</p> </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="2018-10-12T12:00:00Z">Fri, 10/12/2018 - 12:00</time> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-author field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item">Phoebe Pan ’20</div> <div class="text-content field field--name-field-intro-text field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field__item"><p>As the power of representation has been increasingly noted in media in this modern digital age, technology and art serve as crucial mediums for marginalized voices to be heard and acknowledged.</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=2390">Events</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?tag=2367">Science & Math</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?tag=2582">Science Library</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?tag=2356">Conservatory</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=33031">TIMARA</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="/abby-aresty" hreflang="und">Abby Aresty</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/contemporary-music" hreflang="und">Contemporary Music</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-image-caption field--type-string-long field--label-hidden field__item">Students prepare "What I Didn't Say" installation</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">Sarah Goodstein ’21</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-media field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__item"> </div> </article> </main></body></html>