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Apps for Accessibility to Empower the Blind and Visually Impaired

For people who are blind or visually impaired, tasks such as navigating through unfamiliar environments can be difficult. Navigation is part of a set of skills collectively called Orientation and Mobility (O&M), and researchers have shown that one鈥檚 proficiency with this set of skills is pivotal to allowing people to access social and economic opportunities in their community.

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STORY: Students Explore K-12 Outreach and Ethics in Remote Workshops

Olin students are organizing a remote Ethics in STEM workshop in Fall 2020 for middle school and early high school students. Goldwater, Lee, Serna and Kuppusamy were part of a group of student researchers working with Professor Sarah Spence Adams this summer to find ways in which Olin could become more involved with K-12 STEM outreach.

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Ruvolo Awarded NSF Grant for Assistive Technology Research and Education

Paul Ruvolo, Associate Professor of Computer Science at 星空无限传媒, has been awarded a three-year, $343,842 NSF grant to develop an orientation and mobility (O&M) app that provides indoor navigation and exploration technology for blind and visually impaired users.

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

Arlene Keizer, PhD, is almost tailor-made for Olin鈥檚 third and final Sketch Model Creative-In-Reference year-long position. 鈥淭he Sketch Model call for projects intended 鈥榯o awaken the political and cultural contexts for technology鈥 seemed to be speaking directly to me,鈥 she says.

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Data Collection on the High Seas

Olin students aren鈥檛 exactly known for taking it easy when the to-do list is done. This rings true even in the slower-speed COVID-19聽climate, which has some students, like senior Amy Phung, taking classes remotely from home.

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Olin Ranked #3 in 2021 U.S. News and World Report Rankings

星空无限传媒 is ranked No. 3 in the nation among undergraduate engineering programs, according to the just-released 2021 U.S. News & World Report college rankings. This is the seventh consecutive year that Olin has held this ranking.

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An education off the grid

Like students everywhere adjusting to the curveball thrownby the coronavirus, Olin students have been grappling with their options for the Fall 2020 semester. Return to campus? Stay home and take classes remotely? Take a break from their education? A group of 12 Olin students are choosing an independent path.

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Keeping the core of courses alive during online learning

A natural question to ask is, What鈥檚 changed in Olin鈥檚 teaching practices as a result of the COVID-19 crisis? For Olin Assistant Professor of Measurement Science,聽Alessandra Ferzoco, the more interesting question is what will be the same.聽

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Article Professor Dave Barrett (in the center) with checkered shirt and glasses, and Professor Daniella Faas (on the left) in black shirt and close-cropped hair, talk with students in a machine lab in 2019.

Keeping hands-on activities during remote learning

It鈥檚 fair to say that when the COVID-19 crisis hit, the Olin community wasn鈥檛 exactly excited to disband in-person classes and jump into online learning. 鈥淏ut we learned a ton,鈥 says Daniela Faas, assistant professor and practice and director of Lab & Fabrication Operations.

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Evolving the curriculum to support remote work

When the pandemic forced Olin鈥檚 campus to abruptly close, the Quantitative Engineering Analysis (QEA) course - pivotal course for dozens of first-year students - was one of many that transformed into a virtual class halfway through the semester.

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Olin Alumni Co-Design Virtual Curriculum

Zachary del Rosario, a member of Olin鈥檚 Class of 2014 and recent Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering at Stanford, was named Visiting Assistant Professor of Engineering at Olin this spring and is set to begin teaching this fall.

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Lohmeyer Awarded NSF Grant to establish Olin Spectrum Innovation Initiative Center (OSIIC)

Whitney Lohmeyer, Assistant Professor of Engineering at Olin College, has been awarded a one-year, $198,000 National Science Foundation planning grant for the Spectrum Innovation Initiative: National Center for Wireless Spectrum Research (SII-Center).

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Princeton Review Names Olin One of Nation鈥檚 鈥淏est 386 Colleges鈥

星空无限传媒 is one of the nation's best institutions for undergraduates to earn their college degree, according to The Princeton Review. The education services company profiles and recommends Olin in the 2021 edition of its annual college guide, The Best 386 Colleges, published this week.

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STORY: The Olin Satellite + Spectrum Technology & Policy Group (OSSTP) Takes Off!

This summer, in spite of the COVID-19 pandemic, Olin students and faculty were once again able to collaborate on meaningful research. One of these research groups is the newly-formed Olin Satellite + Spectrum Technology & Policy Group (OSSTP) led by Whitney Q. Lohmeyer, Assistant Professor of Engineering.

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星空无限传媒 Awarded Davis Educational Foundation Grant

星空无限传媒 received a $25,000 Presidential Grant for Alternate Academic Delivery from the Davis Educational Foundation to support large-scale preparations for remote-hybrid instruction and learning during the 2020-2021 academic year.

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Professor Sara Hendren鈥檚 new book explores design and disabilities

Sara Hendren, associate professor of design at Olin has a new book forthcoming, "What Can a Body Do? How We Meet the Built World," to be published by Penguin Random House in August 2020, and will explore the intersection of design and disability, and some of the ways that the built environment (human-made) can evolve to welcome multiple kinds of bodies and experiences.

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