Photo of the Week

Congratulations Class of 2023!

At Commencement on Sunday, May 14, Olin celebrated the accomplishments of Olin’s 18th class of graduates. Read more here!

Members of the Class of 2023 pose for their class photo

Community Spotlight

CNN Publishes an Opinion Piece by Gilda and Other College and University Presidents

Gilda, Sian Beilock (President of Barnard College and President-elect of Dartmouth College), and Christina Paxson (President of Brown University) write about the importance of “closing gender and racial equity gaps – in STEM and across the workforce” in a CNN editorial titled: Opinion: We won’t win the CHIPS race if women and people of color stay on the sidelines.

Andrew Mascillaro ‘23 and Steve Matsumoto Featured on the Stack Overflow Podcast

Andrew Mascillaro '23 recently cold called the creators of the Stack Overflow Podcast and pitched them a potential episode about Olin. After months of coordination between Andrew and the show, Andrew and Steve Matsumoto, assistant professor of computer science and engineering, and Andrew's professor, were invited to be guests on the podcast. Listen to the episode here.

Please Submit Challenging Engineering Questions (and answers)

Olin is a member of the Kendall Square Association (thanks to the MIRROR) and on June 14 the Kendall Square Association will host the  Kendall Square Challenge, which consists of a series of intellectual and physical challenges that are performed by corporate teams. They are looking for 5-10 engineering challenge questions (and answers) to use during this event.  Please submit here. Deadline is May 26.

Upcoming Events

Annual Employee Appreciation Luncheon

Tuesday, May 16

12pm -2pm Lunch, Awards & Raffle

Dining Hall, Campus Center

Join us as we come together to recognize and celebrate our employees from Olin College, Rebecca’s Café and Aramark. We will celebrate contributions to Olin and acknowledge those with milestone years-of-service anniversaries over the past year. We will also be announcing and presenting the Stephen P. Hannabury Award for Outstanding Service to this year’s winner.

Olin Learning Lab

Alumni Perspectives on Sustainability

Careers.  Alternative energy systems.  Storage.  Wind.  At a growing rate, Olin alumni are moving into these fields, learning about the hard problems facing our planet, and finding solutions.  Join us for this 4-part series on sustainability and meet the people who are #doing something about it.  

#1 Software Careers in Climate - VIRTUAL - Wed, May 31 - 7 - 8 pm ET

In our first session, Olin alumni Steven Zhang and Jaime and Jason Curtis will talk about frameworks for 1) - thinking about software careers climate, and 2) thinking about personal career growth as a software engineer/professional.  They will share how they got to where they are today, and how you can find the path, working on these hard problems, that is right for you. REGISTER HERE.   

For Your Information

oLink is Going on Summer Vacation

oLink will be going out every other week over summer break. The next oLink will be sent on May 29!

Do you have a question? Contact: Miriam Stulin