Article Community-centered culture Living the experiment Story Faculty Student STORY: Olin’s One-Stop-Shop for Accessible Learning and Creating After years of reinvention, Olin’s Shop strives to be a welcoming resource for all. Over the last several years, Olin’s Shop has transformed from a traditional machine shop into an active learning environment focused on inclusivity, accessibility, and creativity. Read More
Article Engineering for impact Leading transformation Story Faculty Student STORY: Olin Students Present at Engineering Education Conference in Sweden This fall, a group of Olin students had an important professional development opportunity as they presented at an international educational research conference with their faculty advisor. Read More
Article Community-centered culture Engineering for impact Story Faculty Student STORY: 2022 Year in Review - Our Top Twelve Stories To start the new year, we're taking a look back at some of our favorite Olin stories from 2022. Inauguration, Facebook whistleblowing, alumni sustainability, small satellites, engineering with purpose, bold visions, autonomous robotics - 2022 (and these stories) had it all. Read More
Article Engineering for impact Story Faculty Student STORY: Educational Partnership with Local Compost Company Grows Impact-Centered Education at Olin In Jean Huang's Biology foundation class, “Think Like a Biologist,” students and professor are engaged in a unique partnership with a local compost company - Black Earth Compost, who's sponsoring the lab portion of the class for the entire semester. Read More
Community-centered culture Faculty Olin Faculty Search Parties 2022 This October, Olin is holding three virtual events at which potential applicants will connect with Olin staff and faculty to get to know more about our community and opportunities available for joining the faculty. Read More
Article Driving equity Engineering for impact Story Faculty Olin Extends Footprint to Cambridge with “The Mirror” Olin extends its footprint to Cambridge with “The Mirror, ” partnering with Kendall Square Association and HBCUs to expand what’s possible for the young people and industries of Cambridge. Read More
Article Living the experiment Story Faculty Student Olin team wins national “More Water Less Concentrate” competition A team led by Olin College Assistant Professor Emily Tow and including eight Olin students, as well as members from Harmony Desalting, the U.S. Coast Guard Academy, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), earned the top prize—$150,000—in the “More Water Less Concentrate” competition. Read More
Article Engineering for impact Press Release Faculty Eastern Wind Power Donates Prototype Wind Turbine to Olin Olin College is pleased to announce the generous donation by Linda M. and Jonathan Haar, owners of Eastern Wind Power, of a prototype of their Distributed Vertical Axis Wind Turbine (VAWT) to the College. Read More
Article Living the experiment Press Release Faculty Experts say the discovery of Earthbound asteroids and comets needs improvement; too many satellites could prevent discovery A new survey of planetary defense experts from Apollo Academic Surveys and Olin College of Engineering reports that discovery of asteroids and comets needs improvement. In addition, the proliferation of commercial satellites could prevent them from identifying Earthbound asteroids and comets. Read More
Article Engineering for impact Story Faculty Student Building with Purpose: How to craft a PhD in ethical tech. Emily Wang '16 and Sara Hendren, Associate Professor, Design, Fine Arts, and Humanities at Olin, have written a new Q&A about accessibility and technology, finding the right graduate program, constructing a dissertation in disability and tech, and much more. Read More
Article Engineering for impact Story Faculty Student A Boost for Women Students through Clare Boothe Luce Funding For the third year in a row, select women students at Olin are conducting independent research funded by the Clare Boothe Luce (CBL) Program. Read More
Article Community-centered culture Alumni Faculty Staff Student STORY: Olin Visits Alumni, Students in Bay Area Olin College staff and faculty visited the Bay Area in June, enjoying a series of events in Palo Alto and San Francisco that brought together alumni and students living and working in the area for the summer. Read More
Article Engineering for impact Story Faculty It’s All Systems Go with 4S The new “Sustainability: Science, Society, and Systems (4S)” course at Olin teaches students tools to effect real change. The Oliners learn how the four “Ss” overlap in their lives as both citizens and engineers. Read More
Article Community-centered culture Press Release Faculty STORY: Partnership Sparked Through Sketch Model Summer Studio is Off-Broadway Bound A partnership sparked through Olin's Sketch Model Summer Studio is now Off-Broadway bound, with Jonathan Adler's co-written play, “A Variant Strain” making it's debut this summer. Read More
Article Engineering for impact Story Faculty A Big STEP toward Engineering with a Purpose Olin’s creative, triple-wide course called STEP is revolutionizing how students learn and make. This semester, 23 Olin students and four faculty are embarking on a new experiment together. Read More
Article Engineering for impact Story Faculty Olin’s del Rosario Awarded NSF Grant for Studying How Engineers Understand Variability Zachary del Rosario ’14, assistant professor of engineering, has been awarded a $180,000 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to investigate how practicing engineers recognize data variability in their real-world projects. Read More
