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Faculty interested in hiring students for summer employment will hear directly from Terri Dunphy regarding the procedure.
Staff procedure for hiring students for summer employment: The 2006 Summer Job Description should be filled out by any supervisor interested in hiring a student to work during the 10 week period of June 5-August 11. Please complete, sign and date the job description and send it to Nancy Sullivan for processing. After budget approval is obtained, the open position will be posted on Blackboard for students. If a student is hired, please send Nancy Sullivan an email with their name and the position you have hired them for. Nancy will coordinate all remaining paperwork directly with the student.
Campus housing is available from June 3-August 12. Students must sign up ASAP with Loretta Dinon in the StAR office to obtain housing. Housing is a taxable fringe benefit if students work a minimum of 30 hours/week. If they do not work 30 hours/week, there would be a housing charge of $150 per week. Housing questions should be directed to Rod Crafts.
Dining Services now has take out containers available for those faculty and staff members who would like to eat a meal, salad or sandwich from the dining hall, but don't have the time to sit and eat.
For those who need "Good To Go," containers please see the cashier and she will accommodate you.
If you plan to be away from campus and need to have your mail forwarded, please provide preaddressed labels to Ed and Paul in the Olin mailroom. Per USPS regulations, only first class mail can be forwarded. All other mail will be recycled.
If you have correspondence that needs to reach an Olin community member that is away from campus for an extended period, please check with the Olin mailroom to be sure that they have a forwarding address on file. Information regarding Mail Services can be found at: http://campusservices.olin.edu/mailservices.html.
The Purchasing Department is happy to announce the following cost saving opportunity that is open to the Olin community for business or personal use:
- Club Quarters Hotels are located in the business districts of many major cities Their website is an excellent source of information about each Club Quarters location and includes maps, travel directions, area attractions and online booking. For access to their website, log on to www.clubquarters.com (password is OLIN). Reservations can also be booked by calling Member Services 212-575-0006, faxing 212-391-5525, or emailing memberservices@clubquarters.com. The Boston location is on Devonshire St and offers weeknight rates starting at $99 and weekend rates as low as $62.
The College is currently seeking qualified candidates for several positions. Employees are reminded that HR is always happy to accept referrals.
Community Bulletin Board
Commencement is right around the corner -- May 21. Staff members who are not marching in the commencement exercises, but would like to participate are welcome to volunteer to serve as ushers in the afternoon ceremony, which begins at 2:00 p.m. Approximate time commitment will be from 10:00 a.m. -4:00 p.m. and responsibilities will (loosely) involve welcoming guests, handing out programs and assisting with seating. If you are interested, please contact Rod Crafts. The Olin College Art Gallery will hold a reception for its spring exhibition on Thursday, April 27 from 5–7:00 p.m. The reception will take place at the gallery in the Olin Center.
The reception will launch the spring exhibition, which runs through June 2. The exhibition is comprised of art work submitted by students from Babson College, Olin College and Wellesley College. For more information please contact Cara Szeghy.
The Olin Seminar Series continues this month with Dr. Stuart Schaffner of Northeastern University, who will discuss "On the Assembly and Dynamics of Mitotic Spindles in the Chromosome-Directed Pathway" on April 27, 2006 from 12-1:00 p.m. in the auditorium. The abstract can be found at: http://projects.olin.edu/seminar.
Orders are being taken for complete sets of Olin TCG Cards. Each set is $15 and comes in a commemorative binder. A special edition set is available which comes with every card ever made for only $60. To place an order, e-mail OlinTCG@gmail.com.
Wellesley Centers for Women presents the following Spring Lunchtime Seminars:
- April 27: “Peering into the Cracks: Identifying Individuals for Whom Our Statistical Models Do Not Apply,” presented by Allison Tracy, Ph.D.
- May 4: “Update on Same-sex Marriage Project,” presented by the Same-sex Marriage Study Group
All seminars are held 12:30-1:30 p.m. at the Wellesley Centers for Women (828 Washington Street, Wellesley) and are free and open to the public. For more info, visit www.wcwonline.org. Bring your lunch, coffee and tea provided.
Please join the Center for Women's Leadership on April 18 for a panel presentation brought to you by the Undergraduate Women's Leadership Program at Babson's Olin Auditorium from 7:00 -8:30 p.m. This will be a lively and interactive panel discussion led by Professor Danna Greenberg featuring Babson alumni and friends as they discuss how they juggle exciting careers, growing start-up ventures, and robust personal lives. Register online if you wish to attend.
From Carnegie Hall to the Dr. Demento Show to the Cowgirl Hall of Fame – you can count these, and almost everywhere in between, as stops along the way for Cosy Sheridan and her music. This award-winning performer might sing about body piercing, a more user-friendly Barbie doll, the loneliness of her elderly neighbor, or how small and humble things in life, like ants, can sew your heart back together. Cosy will be accompanied by bass player TR Ritchie at the Homegrown Coffeehouse, Saturday, April 22, at 8:00 p.m. The Homegrown Coffeehouse is located at the First Parish Unitarian Church, at the corner of Great Plain and Dedham Avenue in Needham center. There is free parking and wheelchair access. Admission is $15.00 / $12.00 students and seniors to benefit the Church. For more information, call (781) 444-7478 or visit us at www.uuneedham.org.
Greening Olin has great afternoon and evening events on April 22, 2006. From fun, to educational, to tasty, we've got it all:
- 3-5:00 p.m., Activities, Great Lawn: (rain location 1st floor WH)
- Food! (Whole Foods, Trader Joe's, Peet's, Panera) Enjoy deliciously scrumptious fresh grilled fruits and vegetables. Please bring your own cups.
- Educational displays: Olin and the world at large.
- Information: Getting careers/internships that are green
- Improving Olin: Butcher paper and your problems, ideas and solutions
- Bike Maintenance and Ride: Come learn about bikes, help fix bikes, and go for a ride
- Silent Auction: Sustainable Design's reuse projects
- Greening Olin Sweatshirts: On sale for $25
- 3:30 - 3:45 p.m., Find the Recyclables
- $40 induction LED flashlight for the competitor that finds the most recyclables digging through the trash in two minutes (protection is provided)
- Email christie.lee@students.olin.edu to participate -- the first four triumph.
- 3:45 - 4:45 p.m., Clean-up, Parcel B
- There are papers, cups, beer cans, foam, building materials, etc. floating around that you can help get rid of!
- Leave for Parcel B right after Find the Recyclables.
- 4:45 p.m., Greening Olin Challenge
- Judging with over $175 in prizes!
- 5-7:00 p.m., BBQ in the Oval (rain location dining hall)
- Veggie burgers, veggie hot dogs and for the carnivorous, chicken.
- Look forward to awesome (not the normal Sodexho) toppings for the veggie burgers!
- 7-8:00 p.m., The Lorax showing in the Auditorium
- Come watch this 50 minute animated movie based on the Dr. Seuss story about how a village cuts down all of its trees for economic gain, ruining the village. Everyone leaves and the Truffula Trees are extinct - or are they?
- If wanted, a discussion (in rhyme?) will ensue.
***Greening Olin would like to thank the following vendors for their generous donations: Peet's Coffee (Wellesley), Trader Joe's (Needham), Whole Foods (Wellesley), Brigham's Ice Cream (Wellesley), White Mountain Creamery (Wellesley), Joel's, the candy store (Needham), Quebrada Baking Company (Wellesley), Not Your Average Joe's (Needham), Fuji Steak House (Needham), Starbucks (Needham), Peet's (Wellesley), College Square Pizza (Wellesley), Masala Art (Needham), and Harvey's Hardware (Needham).
The winner of the $5,000 Muller Prize for the best undergraduate business plan for an entrepreneurial venture was Salubrion LLC, a company founded in 2004 by Leighton Ige ('06). This event was part of Babson's Founder's Day activities. The winning team of Grant Hutchins ('06), Leighton Ige ('06), Alice Kuo (Wellesley College '06), Daniel Lindquist ('06) and Nils Seebach (Babson College '06) presented the plan for the company's first product, the L-100 seat for practitioners of yoga, inspired by Leighton's grandfather in Hawaii. Salubrion is looking to grow into a world-renowned designer and manufacturer of healthy seating that naturally complements the way people sit.
Olin seniors
Kate Blazek, Susan Fredholm, Que Anh Nguyen and Polina Segalova recently received a big boost to their graduate school plans when they learned they were recipients of National Science Foundation (NSF) graduate research fellowships. The prestigious fellowship program supports outstanding students who are pursuing graduate study in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. By providing three years of guaranteed external funding, the grants dramatically increase the students' options to work with faculty at institutions around the country. Three additional seniors received honorable mentions from the program -- Michael Curtis, Sean Munson and Christopher Murphy. For more info, visit
http://www.olin.edu/about_olin/news/pr_single.asp?id=153.
Congratulations to juniors Yrinee Michaelidis, Lauren Hafford and Lara Clark, who have been selected as finalists for the international Disney University Imagi-Nations design competition and will be going to Glendale, CA in June to present to Disney Imagineering VPs.
More information about the contest can be found here: http://disney.go.com/disneycareers/imaginations/.
Susan Fredholm ('06) collected top honors in the Undergraduate Category of the ASEE New England Section Conference Student Poster Competition at WPI. The conference, which was themed "Engineering Education and Practice for the Global Community," recognized exceptional academic project work related to the conference theme. The posters were displayed at the conference and the students presented their projects to a panel of judges. Fredholm's poster on Designing an Ethanol Reformer for Solid Oxide Fuel Cells reflected her SCOPE team's work on creating an ethanol reformer. Her poster advisor was Professor Linder. Charleen Laughlin, Kate Cummings, Janet Tsai and Alison Lee were also at the conference to present a poster about their research on women in engineering.
Chronicle Features Olin's Entrepreneurial Students as Part of the "Do-It-Yourself" Culture
In the last issue we asked how many different countries Olin students have had an Away experience in? Courtney Sampson was the first to correctly respond 18 and she will receive Olin Gear for her prize.
Q: Olin's first freshman class was composed of students from three groups. Name the three groups.
A: First person to correctly respond to Jennifer Thomas receives a prize.
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