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NEWS: Olin Wins 2024 WorkWell Massachusetts Award

Olin is a 2024 WWCMA WorkWell Massachusetts Awards Winner for Exemplary Worksite Health Promotion.

Q&A with the Library’s Delaney Knapp

Delaney Knapp joins the Olin Library staff as our Community Resources Librarian. Learn more about them, what they’re reading, and their reflections on a librarian’s role in this community Q&A.

STORY: Q&A with Mike Nguyen, Director of Institutional Research & Decision Support

Mike Nguyen has led Olin’s institutional research & decision support efforts since the fall of 2023. Keep reading to learn more about Nguyen’s love of comic books, his PhD studies, his favorite excel formula, and his Olin role.

Fall 2023 Career Fair

Recruit talented engineers for your organization's internships and full-time roles in Electrical Engineering, Software Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Robotics, Environmental/Sustainability Engineering, Bioengineering, UX, and Design.

STORY: Olin to Break Ground on Solar Panel Project

Olin’s multi-year and campus-wide effort to leverage more renewable energy reaches a new milestone this month as the solar panel project in Parking Lot A breaks ground this summer.

Alumni Career Resources and Support

February 2, 2023 - 8:39AM EST | Kristin Casasanto

For alumni who may have recently lost a job, or if you are employed but are rethinking your career path, we have a number of resources that may be helpful.

Student Affairs Spotlight: Frances Mantak, MPH

Spotlight: Frances Mantak, MPH, is Olin’s Director of Wellness and a member of the StAR team. At Olin, she seeks to make the campus a compassionate and balanced place where students can thrive — academically, mentally, and physically.

Holistic Admission: The Whole Nine Yards

September 7, 2022 - 12:13PM EDT | Susan Hartley-Brisson

As anyone who knows me will confirm, I love sports metaphors. After this web search, however, I’m realizing that one of my favorites, “the whole nine yards,” isn’t about football, as I had thought. It does refer to the entirety of something, though, which is consistent with what I want to talk about in this blog. When you apply to Olin, we consider carefully and thoroughly your entire application, the whole nine yards.

Olin College named one of Fiske’s 20 Best Buy Colleges and Universities of 2023.

Fiske Guide to Colleges has designated Olin College of Engineering one of the 20 Best Buy Colleges and Universities of 2023.

STORY: 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.

Greentown Labs Hosts Oliners for Week of Recruitment, Exploration and Partnerships.

Olin students, faculty and staff embrace a model of teaching and learning engineering centered on collaboration, exploration and hands-on experience – and this week’s events with Greentown Labs, is a noteworthy illustration of just that.  

The Final Stretch: How to Navigate Looming Deadlines

January 21, 2022 - 8:58AM EST | Julia Brown

Sometimes a college application deadline can generate anxiety for students. To alleviate some of the stress, Julia Brown shares her take on how to reduce stress and anxiety around deadlines, and particularly around the college application process.

Olin’s third Creative-in-Reference invites students to weave a new design narrative

Arlene Keizer, PhD, is almost tailor-made for Olin’s third and final Sketch Model Creative-In-Reference year-long position. “The Sketch Model call for projects intended ‘to awaken the political and cultural contexts for technology’ seemed to be speaking directly to me,” she says.

Sketch Model Summer Studio

A week-long summer workshop July 22-26 brought together Olin faculty and New England-based artists—including a multimedia artist, a poet, collage artist, painter, performer, installation artist, dancer and director—interested in exploring similar topics.