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Lohmeyer Awarded NSF Grant to establish Olin Spectrum Innovation Initiative Center (OSIIC)

Whitney Lohmeyer, Assistant Professor of Engineering at Olin College, has been awarded a one-year, $198,000 National Science Foundation planning grant for the Spectrum Innovation Initiative: National Center for Wireless Spectrum Research (SII-Center).

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Princeton Review Names Olin One of Nation’s “Best 386 Colleges”

Olin College of Engineering is one of the nation's best institutions for undergraduates to earn their college degree, according to The Princeton Review. The education services company profiles and recommends Olin in the 2021 edition of its annual college guide, The Best 386 Colleges, published this week.

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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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Olin College of Engineering Awarded Davis Educational Foundation Grant

Olin College of Engineering received a $25,000 Presidential Grant for Alternate Academic Delivery from the Davis Educational Foundation to support large-scale preparations for remote-hybrid instruction and learning during the 2020-2021 academic year.

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Sara Hendren, Associate Professor of Fine Arts, Humanities and Design.

Professor Sara Hendren’s new book explores design and disabilities

Sara Hendren, associate professor of design at Olin has a new book forthcoming, "What Can a Body Do? How We Meet the Built World," to be published by Penguin Random House in August 2020, and will explore the intersection of design and disability, and some of the ways that the built environment (human-made) can evolve to welcome multiple kinds of bodies and experiences.

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Olin grad launches news app, Brief

News doesn’t need to leave you feeling terrible. A really great news experience can help you understand the most important news stories and make an informed decision about where you stand on the most important issues—instead of leaving you feeling overloaded and stressed.

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A Distinguished Paper Award Means One Giant Leap for Students

Braden Oh and Lauren Anfenson spent the summer after their freshman year at Olin working at a NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, where they got to see engineers fire a live ion thruster. They were amazed by this technology, which they’d never seen before, and what it could enable.

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Chachra Receives Sloan Foundation Grant

Debbie Chachra, Professor of Engineering at Olin College, has received a grant from the prestigious Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to fund research and writing for her forthcoming book, provisionally titled Public Utility. The book, slated for publication in 2021 by Riverhead Books, will examine the complex relationship between infrastructural systems and society, including issues around equity and climate change.

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Innovation and approaching the future in times of uncertainty

We are living in a tremendous time of uncertainty. That is for certain. Being part of Olin, we are all accustomed to studying, learning, and collaborating to prepare ourselves for a brighter future. And so this period of time can be very disorienting and demotivating. Story by Adjunct Professor Lee Zamir.

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SCOPE Alumni Q&A Featuring Michael Heyns '13 and Mariah Moon '13

Michael Heyns ’13 and Mariah Dunn Moon ’13, both currently working at Microsoft, are partnering with the Olin SCOPE team, AI + Inclusion: The Future of City Navigation, this semester. Inclusive design is a methodology that enables and supports the full range of human diversity. However, when cities aim to incorporate inclusive design, people with visual disabilities can be overlooked. Michael and Mariah answer a few questions about what it’s been like to partner with Olin as SCOPE sponsors.

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Coding for Composers

It’s been about 15 years since Matthew Tesch, class of ’07, started down the path that would lead to StaffPad, an advanced music notation app designed for composers that turns hand-written musical notation into typeset scores.

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Olin College President Gilda A. Barabino, in a dark top and glasses, sits at a wooden table and smiles for the camera.

Olin College of Engineering Names Dr. Gilda Barabino as Its Second President

Dr. Gilda Barabino has been named the next president of Olin College of Engineering, effective July 1, 2020. Dr. Barabino’s unanimous selection by the Olin College Board of Trustees comes after a comprehensive search that drew interest from around the world.

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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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Q&A with Stephanie Milton, Director of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

Stephanie Milton, Olin’s new Director of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and Title IX Coordinator arrived at Olin in January. Stephanie took a few minutes out of her day to answer some questions as she digs into her new role.

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Community-centered culture

Part of Olin’s DNA: A Celebration of Rick Miller

The entire on-campus community gathered together in the dining hall for a festive celebration of Olin President Rick Miller’s 21-year tenure.

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Olin's Senior Entrepreneurial Engineering Capstone

When launching a company or developing a product, timing is everything. And it’s often serendipitous and hard to control. What happens when the inventor of a new product is still in college, and has to choose between holding off on their idea in favor of continuing through to graduation, or leaving school and pursuing a new idea that may or may not work?