Alumni

Welcome Alums!

Through campus events, learning experiences, volunteer opportunities and social gatherings, Alumni and Family Relations creates opportunities for alumni to connect, learn and return.

Connect

Join our new alumni engagement effort (OAC 2.0), contact oscom@olin.edu for details.

Make sure your contact information is up to date to receive the latest communications from Olin and get news of events in your area. Click here to update.

Learn

Have you heard of the Olin Learning Lab? Where alums share their expertise on topics ranging from Entrepreneurship to Computer Science to Ethics. Or, Frank Talks, an alumni speaker series featuring talks on topics ranging from sustainable aviation to healthcare innovation to designing meaningful K-12 learning experiences.

Return

Every year hundreds of alums head back to the Olin campus for Alumni Weekend. We hope you will join them. You can find out more on the AW event page, which gets updated more frequently as it gets closer to the fall.

We are here to help you build a lifelong connection to Olin.

Connect with Us!

Have other ideas for how to stay connected, or events to host or people to connect to Olin?

We'd love to hear from you!

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Did you know, our alumni...

91%

feel valued at work

85%

stay in touch with Olin friends

87%

would choose Olin again

95%

feel financially secure

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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.

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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.

Olin Alum at Forefront of Wearable Tech

Mechanical engineer and biomechanics expert Brendan Quinlivan ’14 recently delivered the June Frank Talk, discussing his path from Olin to wearable robotics.

From the Robotics Lab to the Wet Lab

Using a bootstrap mentality he learned at Olin, Andy Barry '10 is reinventing himself from successful robotics engineer to gene therapy research scientist.

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The Olin Learning Lab

Join us for a series of content-rich seminars designed to build your skills and enrich your knowledge on a range of topics. The best part? The seminars are led by Olin alumni. Our lineup of virtual summer and fall seminars range in topic from Thermodynamics to Software Engineering. At Olin, the learning doesn’t end with graduation.

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Olin College Student Team Finalists in Disney Imagineering Contest

Eric Miller, Miranda McMillen and Benjamin Ziemann have been named finalists in the 28th Walt Disney Imagineering Imaginations Design Competition.

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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.

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Summer of STEM

On a hot, August afternoon the Extending Access to STEM Empowerment (EASE) Lab mobile making trailer pulled up to the Menino Community Center in Roslindale, MA, and Olin College Assistant Professor Amon Millner began pulling out the tools of his trade: Popsicle sticks, hand tools, a computer-controlled drill and cutting machine, wire, and adhesives of all sorts.

Last year 48% of alumni made a gift to Olin

Beginning with our first graduating class in 2006, Olin alumni have recognized Olin’s profound impact on their careers and their lives with generous annual support.

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