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Oliners Celebrate and Bid Farewell to Matt Neal

 

On Thursday, the Olin community gathered in the Library with snacks and drinks to celebrate Matt Neal, materials science and chemistry lab director, who is retiring after 19 integral years at Olin. The photo includes Jonathan Stolk, Matt Neal, Daniela Faas and Kai Scott '25.

 

Community Highlights

 

Welcome, KSE!

Welcome to the delegation of students, faculty and staff from Kyiv School of Economics (KSE)! The group will be here at Olin from Sept. 28 to Oct. 17 to learn from our community as they build aspects of the curriculum and culture of their new engineering program. For questions about the KSE visit, please contact Jess Charlap (jcharlap@olin.edu). 

 

2025-26 SCOPE Program Kicks Off with Boston Scientific, New Balance, and More

As the fall semester gets underway at Olin, so does the College's largest culminating experience for graduating students-SCOPE. This year's projects run the gamut from enhancing early literacy-building apps to improving crosswalk safety automation. Read the highlights.

 

Olin is the #3 U.S. News Undergraduate Engineering College in the U.S.

U.S. News & World Report has named Olin College the nation's No. 3 Undergraduate Engineering program (non-doctorate) in the 2026 edition of their Best Colleges rankings. Read more.

 

Olin's Victoria Preston '16 Takes to the Open Ocean to Study Underwater Volcano

Over the summer, Victoria hopped aboard a research vessel headed to the Galapagos Islands to gather data from an actively erupting submarine volcanic ridge in the Pacific Ocean. Read about the project.

 

Humans of Olin: Fiona McSherry '27

Learn more about Fiona, an Electrical & Computer Engineering (ECE) major, and her experience in OFAC, OEM, Babson Dance Ensemble and ModSim. See the post.

 

Coming Up

 

Call for Submissions: Award for Meritorious Inaction

There's generally only awards for doing things-except here at Olin. We've got the Award for Meritorious Inaction! All Olin community members are eligible, except for those on the Award for Meritorious Inaction Prize Committee. The winner will have a tree planted in their honor on campus and will be able to list this award on their CV or resume. Nominations are due Oct. 6 by 11:59 p.m. Nominate yourself or a friend. Please reach out to Carrie Nugent (cnugent@olin.edu) with any questions. 

 

Tues., Sept. 30: Developmental Leave Presentation

12 p.m. - 1 p.m. / MAC 326

Join Jon Adler for the first Developmental Leave Presentation of the 2025-26 academic year. He will describe his approach to developmental leave, priorities for the year, process for approaching the year and share some of the big ideas in his forthcoming book titled "Identity Theft" (Penguin Random House/Avery). Click here to join virtually.

 

Mon., Oct. 6: Community Research Seminar with the Brandeis IRB & Lunch for Faculty and Interested Staff

12 p.m. - 2 p.m. / Crescent Room

The folks from the Brandeis IRB, Olin's IRB of record, will join us to give a seminar on human subjects research for students, faculty and staff. Afterwards, they will join faculty and interested staff for lunch for a meet and greet and Q&A session. Full announcement coming soon.

 

Wed., Oct. 8: Career Fair

11 a.m. - 2 p.m. / Campus Center

Join us for the Career Fair, where Olin will welcome a selection of hiring organizations and grad schools to campus. Activities will mainly take place on the second-floor mezzanine and the Crescent Room. This event is open to all current students and alumni, all class years and majors. Please note:

 

Fri., Oct. 17 - Sat. Oct. 18: Return to the Oval: Alumni + Family Weekend

All alumni and current family are welcome to join us to reconnect with friends, network, mark milestone alumni reunions and celebrate Olin's past, present and future. See more information.

 

Thurs., Oct. 30: Community Research Seminar

12 p.m. - 1 p.m. / Library (First Floor) 

Ahan Trivedi '27 and Georgia Van de Zande will present, "Computational Design Validation: Analyzing Engineering Design Teams' Internal Communication Regarding User Interaction."

 

If you have research you'd like to share with the community or a visitor you'd like to invite for a future CRS, please email research@olin.edu


For Your Information
 

 

Photography on Campus

Please send any questions about photography to OSCOM@olin.edu.

  • There will be a professional photographer on campus on the following upcoming dates. Please let the photographer(s) know if you would not like to be photographed-they will accommodate all requests:
    • Wed., Oct. 8: Career Fair & Student Headshots

 

Want to submit oLink content? Have a question about oLink?

Contact Sarah Clark (sclark@olin.edu).

 


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