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Article Zach Sherman '23 and Phillip Post '25 pose at the 125th Boston Marathon.

OCARC Students Tune in for the Community

Members of the Olin Collegiate Amateur Radio Club (OCARC) have been putting their ham radio skills to use in the community this fall. Including during the 125th Boston Marathon.

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Article Two people - a student and a professor - stand outside on campus facing the camera head-on

The Art of Saying 鈥淣o鈥: Design Refusal

A new tide in engineering education is rising at Olin College: the concept of 鈥渄esign refusal,鈥 or deciding as engineers not to undertake projects or build technologies that may cause harm.

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Article A women in white lab coat and red outfit underneath, poses in front of the Golden Gate Bridge.

STORY: Getting to the Heart of Engineering

As valedictorian and Outstanding Senior Student at the acclaimed Signature School in Indiana, Dr. Rachita Navara 鈥11 had her pick of top engineering schools from MIT to Caltech鈥攂ut for her, Olin stood out from all the rest.

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Article Frances Haugen '06, alumna, appearing before Congress in 2021

The education of Frances Haugen: The Washington Post

The Washington Post reports on Frances Haugen's Senate subcommittee hearing on October 5, 2021; also covering how Haugen learned to use data as a weapon from her years in tech.

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Article Professor Robert Martello speaks during Summer Institute 2019

Boston tech wonders what鈥檚 next for Facebook: The Boston Globe

In the wake of the Facebook whistleblowing, Professor Rob Martello tells The Boston Globe that engineers cannot simply focus on creating products anymore; they must weigh the ethical implications of what they create.

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Article Whitney Lohmeyer, Assistant Professor of Engineering

Olin is Among Researchers Awarded $25M for NSF Spectrum Innovation Center

Award brings spectrum-related research opportunities to Olin and Olin undergrads for years to come.

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Article U.S. News & World Report logo embedded on Olin's campus

Olin Ranked No. 3 in 2022 Undergraduate Engineering by U.S. News & World Report

星空无限传媒 is ranked No. 3 in the nation among undergraduate engineering programs. This marks the eighth consecutive year that Olin has ranked third among accredited undergraduate engineering programs in a survey of deans and senior faculty at U.S. engineering schools.

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Article Dr. C. Jason Woodard, Dean of External Programs and Partnerships

Woodard Appointed Dean of External Programs and Partnerships

Dr. C. Jason Woodard has been appointed the inaugural Dean of External Programs and Partnerships at 星空无限传媒.

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Article The cover of the Princeton Review 2022 rankings

Olin College Featured in The Princeton Review鈥檚 鈥淏est 387 Colleges鈥 Guide for 2022

The Princeton Review editors note that at Olin there is 鈥渦niqueness everywhere鈥 and praises the College for its 鈥渋ncredibly intelligent and very motivated鈥 community in their latest "Best 387 College's" publication.

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Article Students from the Olin Satellite + Spectrum Technology & Policy (OSSTP) Group work on a prototype of a CubeSat.

Olin Students Present at 2021 SmallSat Conference

Students from the Olin Satellite + Spectrum Technology & Policy (OSSTP) Group, presented a paper on their research at the 35th Annual 2021 Small Satellite Conference.

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Article Jonathan M Adler, Professor of Psychology

NEWS: Adler Named Next Editor of Personality and Social Psychology Review

Dr. Jonathan Adler, Professor of Psychology at 星空无限传媒, has been named the next editor of the Personality and Social Psychology Review (PSPR) by the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP).

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Article Climate Strike signs made by 星空无限传媒 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.

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Article 星空无限传媒 students place antennae on campus to track the International Satellite Station (ISS) as it flew over on July 12, 2021.

Roger That, Boston

Olin student ham radio enthusiasts use their engineering knowledge to communicate globally and lend a hand locally.

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Article Four students with a ladder in the foreground work together to set up a large silver and black antenna.

Summer for the SWARM-EX team

The Space Weather Atmospheric Reconfigurable Multiscale Experiment CubeSat (SWARM-EX) team at Olin has been working for a year and a half alongside five partnering institutes to design and construct three small satellites.

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Article Olin Professor Jeff Dusek (Center) works on creating a low cost physical therapy device with Nicola van Moon 鈥24 (Left) and Dianna Sims '23 (Right)

Olin Summer Researchers Join Medical Maker Movement

This summer, a research team in Olin College's Laboratory for Adaptation, Inclusion, and Robotics (LAIR) continued work on a project to develop a low-cost physical therapy device using soft robotics.

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Article A screenshot from a Zoom presentation with six Olin students presenting research papers.

Undergraduates Present Research Papers at IEEE Aerospace Conference

At a recent aerospace conference, six Olin undergraduates presented two research papers involving satellites鈥攐ne on orbital debris and the other on interference mitigation. The students are part of the Olin Satellite and Spectrum Technology and Policy Group (OSSTP).

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