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STORY: Students Leverage Real Operations Data to Make Sustainability Impact at Olin

A new course at Olin College has students using real data from the campus’s building automation and heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) systems to lower energy usage and increase efficiency today and into the future.

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STORY:Teaching Data Science through the Lens of Sustainability

Students in Olin pilot course use sustainability research questions and data sets as context for learning data science principles.

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STORY: Engineering Solutions for a 150-Year-Old Textile Mill

Students in a pilot engineering course are collaborating with Draper Knitting to devise innovations and understand the global textile industry.

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NEWS: Olin receives NEH grant for AI, climate change, and humanities curriculum integration

Olin faculty have received a $60,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to fund the integration of Artificial Intelligence and Climate Change curriculum into STEM courses.

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STORY: P&M Students Participate in Speedy Sustainable Fashion Pitch

The Sustainable Fashion Entrepreneurship Kickbox Activity gave groups less than an hour to design and pitch an industry-changing innovation.

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Student Maddy Robertson with class grown mushrooms.

STORY: Lab-Grown Mushrooms a Lesson in Sustainable Eating

Professor of biology and art and Michael E. Moody Professor at Olin, Helen Donis-Keller, incorporates a hands-on lab to teach students to grow their own food.

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STORY: Accessible by Design

Olin students design accessible technology for community members with disabilities in forward-thinking, human-centered course.

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Climate Strike signs made by Olin College of Engineering students

Announcing the Olin E:Sustainability Concentration

Olin is excited to announce the creation of the E:Sustainability concentration, beginning in the 2021-2022 academic year. The new concentration will give students another area of interdisciplinary focus as they expand their engineering studies.