Article Leading transformation Living the experiment Story Faculty Student STORY: New “CLIP” Course Makes Independent Study More Accessible “Cohort Learning in Parallel” (CLIP) is a new experimental course at Olin that is working to make independent study more accessible, connected, and sustainable for students and faculty alike. Read More
Article Leading transformation Story Faculty Student Curricular Design STORY: Olin Students Learn to Take Action in New “Local Democracy” Course While Olin students spend plenty of time solving technical problems, a new course asks them to tackle a different kind of challenge: how to participate in democracy where they live. Read More
Article Engineering for impact Leading transformation Living the experiment Story Faculty Student STORY: Olin HydroFleet Wins Farm Robotics Challenge Drone Award The team from Olin College— who won the Grand Prize for their robot in 2024— took home the 2026 award for Excellence in Drone Applications. Read More
Article Engineering for impact Story Faculty Student Embracing Uncertainty: “Probabilistic Robotics” at Olin At Olin, experimentation isn’t just something students do in the lab—it’s built into the curriculum itself. A new course called “Probabilistic Robotics” exemplifies that philosophy, combining cutting-edge technical content with a student-centered design to prepare future engineers for meaningful, adaptable careers. Read More
Article Engineering for impact Living the experiment Story Faculty Student Empowering the Next Generation of Engineering Educators At Olin College, transforming engineering education means continually rethinking both how students learn and how educators are prepared to teach. Introducing the new initiative, the Olin College Teaching Fellows Fund. Read More
Article Community-centered culture EWeek Story Faculty STORY: Transformative Storytelling: The Story Lab at OIin Partners with LearningWell Coalition For over a decade, Olin College’s Jonathan Adler, professor of psychology, and Gillian Epstein, associate professor of English, have run the Story Slam series, combining their passions for storytelling and performance. Read More
Article Driving equity Engineering for impact Story Faculty Brazilian High Schoolers Learn Design Thinking at Olin/MIT This October, 26 students from Colégio Santa Cruz in São Paulo, Brazil, completed a weeklong community-engaged design immersion program on both Olin’s and MIT’s campuses as part of the International Development Innovation Network (IDIN) School Program. Read More
Article Press Release Faculty NEWS: Donis-Keller Appointed Co-Leader of Biology Section and Member-at-Large for American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Helen Donis-Keller, professor of biology and art and Michael E. Moody Professor, has been appointed to a two-year term as one of two leaders of the Biology Section and a Member-at-Large of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world’s largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its Science family of journals. Read More
Article Driving equity Engineering for impact Story ADE Faculty Student STORY: Have you heard? ADE is now DJS Fifteen years after its inception, the Olin capstone has a new name that better represents the work students, faculty and their community partners undertake together: Design Justice Studio. Read More
Article 2025-2026 Leading transformation Press Release Faculty Staff NEWS: Olin Wins 2025 WorkWell Massachusetts Award Olin is a 2025 WWCMA WorkWell Massachusetts Awards Winner for Exemplary Worksite Health Promotion. Read More
Article Living the experiment Story Faculty STORY: Olin’s Victoria Preston ’16 Takes to the Open Ocean to Study Underwater Volcano Over the summer, Victoria Preston ’16, assistant professor of engineering, hopped aboard a research vessel headed to the Galapagos Islands to gather data from an actively erupting submarine volcanic ridge in the Pacific Ocean. Read More
Article Engineering for impact Story Faculty STORY: Oliners Help Design Teen Oasis in a Cambridge Shade Desert What began as an external partner project pitch in Olin’s Designing Resources for Empowerment and Making (DREAM) course, taught by Amon Millner, professor of computing and innovation, became a broad, community-supported customizable structure for providing shade for local teens during the scorching heat of summer in the city. Read More
Article Story Faculty STORY: Q&A with Dr. Elisabeth Sylvan Dr. Elisabeth Sylvan joins the Olin community as a Visiting Associate Professor of Sociotechnical Systems. Learn more about Elisabeth and her experience in this Q&A. Read More
Article Story Faculty STORY: Q&A with Dr. Annick Dewald Dr. Annick Dewald joins the Olin community as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Engineering. Learn more about Annick and her experience in this Q&A. Read More
Article Press Release Faculty NEWS: Graeff is Named a 2025 Engineering Unleashed Fellow Erhardt Graeff has received national recognition from the Kern Entrepreneurial Engineering Network (KEEN) for innovative engineering education practices. He is one of twenty-nine engineering faculty across the US to receive this honor. Read More
Article Driving equity Engineering for impact Story Faculty Student STORY: Student Researchers Expand Access to Early Hearing Loss Detection with Smart Design Student researchers at Olin College worked this summer with faculty from Olin and Boston College to develop new user interface prototypes that support early detection of hearing loss in children - improving access to care around the world. Read More
