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Professor Helen Donis-Keller poses with her class of Olin students at Greentown Labs on March 9, 2022.

Greentown Labs Hosts Oliners for Week of Recruitment, Exploration and Partnerships.

Olin students, faculty and staff embrace a model of teaching and learning engineering centered on collaboration, exploration and hands-on experience – and this week’s events with Greentown Labs, is a noteworthy illustration of just that.

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President Barabino Publishes New Article in Issues in Science and Technology

President Gilda A. Barabino has penned a new article, writing that "The culture of science itself must change to fully reach untapped talent, enhance knowledge creation and ensure the health and well-being of the nation."

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A young student smiles and poses for a photo on the waterfront with a florecent pink observation wheel in the background.

Studying Abroad During a Pandemic: An Interview with Julia Benton '22

Julia Benton ‘22 studied theater abroad in London during the Fall 2021 semester. Braving a pandemic, she finally got a chance to go to the UK. View highlights from a new interview where she shares her experiences.

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Riva Gulassa ’15 holds a clipboard while working at sea.

STORY: A Big Fish in a Really Big Pond

Riva Gulassa ’15 uses mechanical engineering to help protect the world’s oceans.

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STORY: Students Explore K-12 Outreach and Ethics in Remote Workshops

Olin students are organizing a remote Ethics in STEM workshop in Fall 2020 for middle school and early high school students. Goldwater, Lee, Serna and Kuppusamy were part of a group of student researchers working with Professor Sarah Spence Adams this summer to find ways in which Olin could become more involved with K-12 STEM outreach.

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STORY: The Olin Satellite + Spectrum Technology & Policy Group (OSSTP) Takes Off!

This summer, in spite of the COVID-19 pandemic, Olin students and faculty were once again able to collaborate on meaningful research. One of these research groups is the newly-formed Olin Satellite + Spectrum Technology & Policy Group (OSSTP) led by Whitney Q. Lohmeyer, Assistant Professor of Engineering.

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Four Olin students pose for a photo at MakeHarvard 2020 hackathon

Three Olin Teams Win Top Prizes at MakeHarvard 2020

Three Olin teams each took home prizes from the MakeHarvard 2020 hackathon on February 2, 2020. Evan Cusato ’20, Zack Davenport ’20, Hannah Kolano ’20 and Emma Pan ’21 won best overall for their project, the “Melodicon.” "It was pretty surreal,” said Evan. “We walked in with nothing but a few friends and some snacks, and we came out with an invention that people liked and saw value in. That’s pretty cool for 24 hours’ work."

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During a recent Principles of Engineering course, a team of Olin students set out to develop a braille printer that could convert musical instrument digital interface files into braille sheet music. The idea was to offer an accessible way for visually impaired musicians to access digitized music and to be able to have the music in sheet format, without having to search in a store.

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Alumni spotlight: Etosha Cave ’06

As a child growing up in Houston, Texas, Etosha Cave ’06 had an ingrained awareness and appreciation for petroleum and fossil fuels. This awareness grew into “a desire to mitigate the waste from them, find alternatives and find a more balanced approach to energy,” she says.

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A man with glasses and dark hair, seated in a classroom with a laptop resting on his lap, talks to the class.

Security in an Interconnected World

How do you incentivize people – consumers and vendors alike – to invest in better security? How do you design a cloud-based platform that will enable people to take back some control over their technology? How do we know if the messages we send today will be private 10 years from now?

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Olin’s Second Creative in Reference Takes Flight with Help From Olin Students

The email that came into Bennett Taylor's inbox in July seemed simple enough. Tom Pearson, this academic year's Sketch Model Creative-In-Reference*, was looking for a student to help him design mechanical costumes for a show in mid-October in San Diego. But it soon became clear to Taylor '22 that this was no ordinary theatrical production.

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Olin College Orientation 2021 activities on the Great Lawn.

Student-Led Orientation Program Debuts for Class of 2025

This year, incoming Oliners were offered a brand-new program to help them adjust to college life: Pre-Orientation Summer Experience, or POSE, which was designed and delivered by current students.

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Sketch Model Summer Studio

A week-long summer workshop July 22-26 brought together Olin faculty and New England-based artists—including a multimedia artist, a poet, collage artist, painter, performer, installation artist, dancer and director—interested in exploring similar topics.

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An inverting torus with wires sticking out of the oval-shaped device.

Soft Robotic Design Competition 2018 Winner

This little guy is an inverting torus, which just happened to win the 2018 Soft Robotic Design Competition. Three Olin students, Junwon Lee, Cameron Wierzbanowski and Harrison Young submitted the design.