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STORY: Olin Joins Reach Every Reader to Help Children’s Literacy Efforts

Olin has joined Reach Every Reader (RER), a multi-university research collaborative studying how to create a developmental and long-range approach to supporting K-2 literacy for all children as early as possible.

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Olin Releases 2024-2025 Annual Report

The 2024-2025 Annual Report is an institutional summary of Olin's past fiscal year (July 1, 2024 – June 30, 2025) and highlights our research, education, and partnership initiatives, as well as faculty, student, and alumni accomplishments. The report also shares an overview of Olin's finances and the many donors and volunteers who contribute to our campus and community.

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DJS students met with community members in Galena Park, TX, on a trip to work with their partner, Environmental Community Advocates of Galena Park (ECAGP).

STORY: Have you heard? ADE is now DJS

Fifteen years after its inception, the Olin capstone has a new name that better represents the work students, faculty and their community partners undertake together: Design Justice Studio.

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STORY: Julia Ying P’28: “A responsibility and a joy”

When Jonathan Sun ’28 and his father, William, returned home to Washington from their first Olin visit, Julia Ying P’28 knew something about the college was different.

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STORY: Chris Wallace ’17: “Olin showed me what was possible”

Chris Wallace ’17 grew up in a small town in Central Massachusetts and was the first in his family to go to college, thanks in part to Olin’s generous financial aid. The powerful connections he made as a student have carried over to life beyond the Oval and have inspired him to give back.

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Olin Accessible Design Project Artifacts Acquired by London Museum

A visionary, low-tech design research project called Engineering at Home begun in 2016 by Caitrin Lynch, professor of anthropology at Olin, has sparked new interest as objects from the projects as well as the entire website have been acquired by London’s Victoria and Albert (V&A) Museum.

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Camille Girard '21 holds their new game, Shroomscape: The Mycelium Mindset Board Game

STORY: From Prototype to Play: Olin Alum Blends Art, Science, and Fungi in Shroomscape

Inspired by her Olin experience, namely Olin's academic approach of combining the technical with the Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences, Camille Girard '21, has just launched the tabletop game, Shroomscape: The Mycelium Mindset Board Game, on Kickstarter.

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NEWS: Olin featured in The Princeton Review Guide to Green Colleges: 2026 Edition

Olin is featured in the Princeton Review’s 2026 Guide to Green Colleges.

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NEWS: Olin Wins 2025 WorkWell Massachusetts Award

Olin is a 2025 WWCMA WorkWell Massachusetts Awards Winner for Exemplary Worksite Health Promotion.

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A group of students stand with the owners of Wavelength, a local coffee roaster in Shirley, MA.

STORY: ACRONYM Engineers the Perfect Roast with Wavelength Coffee Roasters

Olin College’s ACRONYM is brewing a collaboration with a new business: Wavelength Coffee Roasters. The ACRONYM leadership team spent an afternoon learning about the company’s innovative coffee roasting process, followed by a tasting where they created their own coffee blend to commemorate the Class of 2006 called “Olin Original ’06.”

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Three Olin engineering students pose with their small-scale autonomous surface vessel, made at Olin College as part of the CREST Lab.

STORY: Students in CREST Lab Develop Autonomous Vessel to Study Local Water Bodies

This summer, five Oliners working with Victoria Preston '16, assistant professor of engineering, designed, fabricated, assembled, and tested a small-scale autonomous surface vessel to enable more robust and efficient coastal research.

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STORY: Q&A with Travis DiJoseph

Travis DiJoseph joins the Olin community as the new Registrar. Learn more about Travis and his experience in this Q&A.

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Students speak with SCOPE Liaisons at the Sponsor Showcase.

STORY: 2025–26 SCOPE Program Kicks Off with Boston Scientific, New Balance, and More

As the fall semester gets underway at Olin, so does the College’s largest culminating experience for graduating students—SCOPE, or Senior Capstone Program in Engineering.

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Victoria Preston ’16 stands in front of the Marcus G. Langseth ship.

STORY: Olin’s Victoria Preston ’16 Takes to the Open Ocean to Study Underwater Volcano

Over the summer, Victoria Preston ’16, assistant professor of engineering, hopped aboard a research vessel headed to the Galapagos Islands to gather data from an actively erupting submarine volcanic ridge in the Pacific Ocean.

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Students gather around a laptop with Andrea Cuadra ’13, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, who wears the light blue shirt.

NEWS: Olin is the #3 U.S. News Undergraduate Engineering College in the U.S.

U.S. News & World Report has named Olin College the nation’s No. 3 Undergraduate Engineering program (non-doctorate) in the 2026 edition of their Best Colleges rankings.

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A platform with covers above it held up by metal poles. The white ring lights up at night. There are people throughout the photo talking and playing ball.

STORY: Oliners Help Design Teen Oasis in a Cambridge Shade Desert

What began as an external partner project pitch in Olin’s Designing Resources for Empowerment and Making (DREAM) course, taught by Amon Millner, professor of computing and innovation, became a broad, community-supported customizable structure for providing shade for local teens during the scorching heat of summer in the city.