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Olin President Gilda Barabino Named AAAS President-Elect

Gilda A. Barabino, Ph.D., President of 星空无限传媒, has been selected as president-elect of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

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Olin is a Top Producer of 2020-2021 U.S. Fulbright Students

星空无限传媒 has been recognized as a top producer of U.S. Fulbright Students. Each year the U.S. Department of State鈥檚 Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA) announces the top producing institutions for the Fulbright Program, the U.S. government's flagship international educational exchange program.

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Olin Helps Take the Grand Challenges Scholars Program (GCSP) in a New Direction

At Olin, part of educating engineers is preparing them to be world-changers. This takes shape in different ways, including helping students consider the civic role that they can play in sustaining society and the planet. At Olin, one of the ways in which the concept of civic engagement is embodied in its Grand Challenges Scholars Program (GCSP).

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Olin Admission Defies Pandemic with Strong 2025 Applicant Pool

A total of 902 students have applied for admission to the Olin Class of 2025, nearly matching last year鈥檚 910 applicants. This year鈥檚 pool includes slight increases in international students, and first-generation college students, at 15 percent and 14 percent respectively.

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Influencing the global state of engineering education

In December 2020, groups of faculty and students from 16 engineering institutions from around the world gathered together virtually for the second Colloquium on the Global State of the Art in Engineering Education. Hosted by Olin and MIT.

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Nugent鈥檚 Spacepod Podcast Reaches Million Download Milestone

Nugent has been hosting Spacepod, an inside look into space exploration, since August 2015 and has produced 180 episodes for a worldwide audience. Each week, Nugent hosts leading experts in astronomy and planetary science.

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By Students, For Students: Olin Entrepreneurs Launch Green Line Ventures

Six Olin, Babson and Wellesley students have launched Green Line Ventures (GLV), a student fund that, in partnership with 500 Startups managing partner Tim Chae, is designed to fund Babson, Olin and Wellesley (BOW) student and alumni-founded startups.

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Build Week Builds Community (and Other Cool Things)

Forty students returned to campus one week early to participate in Olin鈥檚 first ever Build Week. Modeled after Build Days of Olin鈥檚 past, the Build Week 鈥渃rew鈥 of Riya Aggarwal 鈥22, Dieter Brehm 鈥22, Sam Daitzman 鈥22 and Victoria McDermott 鈥20, guided the enthusiastic group of students, and faculty and staff in a variety of campus betterment projects, reflections on Olin鈥檚 past, and discussions about its future.

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Oliners Present at FIE 2020

Professor Yevgeniya (Zhenya) V. Zastavker brought two Olin students and an alum as well as a Wellesley student to this year鈥檚 Frontiers in Education (FIE) conference on Oct. 21-24. FIE is a major global conference drawing from international scholars and practitioners who ponder questions and implement innovations in engineering and computing education.

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Developing a Rocket Remotely

This has been a challenging semester for Olin Rocketry, a relatively new project team on campus, also known as 鈥淭he Fastest Team On Campus鈥. The team started in 2017 with 5 first years and since then has grown to over 30 members.

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Olin Team in the Running for Grant to Establish New $25M Wireless Spectrum Research Center

Assistant Professor of Engineering, Whitney Lohmeyer, and the Olin Spectrum Innovation Initiative Center (OSIIC) team, recently joined a multi-institution effort to create a comprehensive plan for a five-year $25M National Center for Wireless Spectrum Research.

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Olin Awarded Second Public Interest Technology Grant

星空无限传媒 has been awarded a Public Interest Technology University Network (PIT-UN) 2020 Challenge Grant for the College鈥檚 student-led PInT Summer Fellowship program. This grant renews support for Olin鈥檚 Summer Fellowship for a second year.

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Mark Somerville Named New Provost and Dean of Faculty at Olin College

星空无限传媒 announced that Mark Somerville has been named the College鈥檚 new provost and dean of faculty, effective immediately.

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Opening doors to research careers

This past summer and into the fall, nine women Olin students were able to explore the possibility of a research-oriented future in positions funded by the Clare Boothe Luce (CBL) Program.

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Article Olin College President Gilda Barabino poses with a smile outside Olin's Academic Center in 2020.

Barabino Elected to National Academy of Medicine

Olin College President Gilda A. Barabino has been elected to the National Academy of Medicine, the academy announced on Monday, October 19 at its annual meeting. Election to the Academy is considered one of the highest honors in the fields of health and medicine and recognizes individuals who have demonstrated outstanding professional achievement and commitment to service.

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SCOPE 2020-2021: COVID-19 Can鈥檛 Stop These Students from Making an Impact

This year, Olin鈥檚 Senior Capstone Program in Engineering (SCOPE), in which teams of seniors embark on a year-long project for and with a corporate or nonprofit sponsor, is truly exceptional.

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