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Jonathan Adler Featured on Hidden Brain Podcast

The discussion on the power of storytelling kicked off a monthlong series of episodes on healing.

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Building Confidence in Olin’s Shop

Through curricular integration, Olin ensures that all students have the hands-on skills they need to thrive.

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Alum Designs Affordable Assistive Devices in Tanzania

Eamon O’Brien ’21 co-founded Kyaro in 2019 to produce cost-effective, sturdy, appealing assistive devices for East African people with disabilities.

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Olin HEAL Lab Developing Less invasive Diagnostics for Endometriosis

Technology uses light and sound waves instead of more traditional, invasive tools.

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Build-A-Sat Kit Pieces made by OSSTP Group

OSSTP Teaches Students Around the World about Satellites through their Build-A-Sat Kits

The OSSTP Group at Olin is teaching students around the world about satellites through their hands-on, educational Build-A-Sat Kits.

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Summer team picture - Anmol, Erhardt, and Bethany standing together and smiling at camera

Olin Students Fighting Mass Incarceration through Data Analysis

ADE project building tool to examine racial disparity in police stops

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The Sky’s the Limit

Olin students tackle NASA-funded project to examine solar eclipses through high-altitude balloons.

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Assistant Professor of Engineering Whitney Lohmeyer

Whitney Lohmeyer Takes on Historic Role with FCC

Lohmeyer has begun a one-year term as chief technologist for the newly established Space Bureau.

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Welcome Victoria Dean

After earning her Ph.D. in Robotics at the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University this summer, Victoria Dean joins the Olin faculty as an assistant professor of computer science.

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Exploring Earth’s Final Frontier: The Ocean

Amy Phung ’21 is enabling better and more efficient exploration of the deep sea using ROVs.

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Keoni Mahelona working with community members in the computer

Olin Alum Using AI to Preserve Te Reo Māori

Keoni Mahelona ’07 is a leader in indigenous sovereignty of data and technologies. He is using his interdisciplinary engineering knowledge to help Māori people take ownership of preserving and protecting their indigenous language, te reo Māori.

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Olin College's campus in the fall is seen from above in a drone image.

Olin to Break Ground on Solar Panel Project

Olin’s multi-year and campus-wide effort to leverage more renewable energy reaches a new milestone this month as the solar panel project in Parking Lot A breaks ground this summer.

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Professor of the history of science and technology, Rob Martello, addressing Engineering in Context class.

New Interdisciplinary Course Helps Students See Engineering’s Big Picture

“Engineering in Context” allows students to self-integrate concepts of sustainability, ethics, and history into their studies.

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Alum Creating Microsoft Assistive Tech for Users with Visual Impairments

Emma Pan ’21 is leveraging her Olin degree to create ethical, impactful technology.

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Six students pose for a group photo with a blue recycling bin.

Watch: Two Student Teams Present Final Projects from Impact-Centered Olin Courses [Video]

Members of the Olin College faculty and staff were invited to the Campus Center recently to watch two student teams present their final projects for the impact-centered Olin courses: Environmental Consulting at Olin (ECO) and Change at Olin.

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Braden Oh '23 poses with an ion thruster at MIT's Space Propulsion Lab in 2023.

Olin Students are First Undergraduates to Achieve Sustained Fire of Ion Thruster

On January 30, 2023, six students from the Olin Plasma Engineering & Electric Propulsion Lab (PEEP), reached a major milestone at MIT’s Space Propulsion Lab: they achieved ignition. Making them the first undergraduate team in the world to successfully design, build and fire a steady-state Hall-effect thruster (HET).