Frank Talks: An Alumni Speaker Series

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Event Jessi Murry'10

Frank Talks: Finding Purpose: Supporting MA Families as a Civic Technologist

Microsoft New England Research and Development Center

Jessi Murray '10 is the Chief Product Officer for the MA Department of Early Education and Care, where she has been building a new Product organization from the ground up.

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Frank Talks: Creating Robots for Good

Culture House

In this talk Mikell will discuss how different areas of robotics drive us to consider choices from different angles and how the robots we make can move the needle toward good outcomes.

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Frank Talks: Debugging Circuits in the Heart

Zoom

Learn more about Dr. Navara's '11 innovative arrhythmia research, the company, SafeBeat, she founded based on this research and how she identified the need that SafeBeat fills.

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Frank Talks: Designing Meaningful K-12 Learning Experiences

Zoom

Learn about the joys of designing meaningful and engaging curriculum for K-12 classrooms.

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Frank Talks: Understanding the Atmosphere: From Winter Weather to Future Climate

Zoom

Jessie Oehrlein '16 discusses what we know about the atmosphere at different time and spatial scales, how we know it, and what we do with that information.

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Frank Talks: Finding Fulfilling Work – One Adventure at a Time

Culture House, 16 Union Square, Somerville, MA

Ellen Chisa shares examples of different career decision moments and how we can do fulfilling work and have long term impact.

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Frank Talks: Robots That You Wear

Virtual

Brendan Quinlivan '14 shares the latest news in wearable robots and how they are being used in healthcare, the military, and your grocery store.

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Frank Talks: From College Student to Professor

San Francisco, CA

Olin’s Assistant Professor and alum Zachary del Rosario '14 addresses a group of students and alumni at our first live ‘Frank Talk’ in San Francisco.

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Frank Talks: Justice, Equity, Design & Innovation: A New Approach to Teacher Preparation

Virtual

Julianna Stockton '06 shares her own path from Olin into higher education, and explains why she sees teacher preparation as a key lever for change in the educational system at large.

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Event Olin College alum Kate Garrett

Frank Talks: Ways to Impact Patient Care Without an MD

Virtual

In this talk, Kate Garrett explains the ways you can make a difference in patient lives without being a doctor– as an engineer, business person and investor.

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Event Ollie Haas '11

Frank Talks: How Will You Fly Tomorrow?

Virtual

Ollie Haas shares information about the exciting technologies and trends that will help us take to the skies – and continue traveling our planet – with significantly lower emissions.

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