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 News You Can Use
Upcoming Events
Community Bulletin
Kudos
Trivia

The Link: Olin’s Campus-Wide E-Bulletin January 19, 2007

This newsletter includes news and information that will keep you informed of campus happenings.

If you have information you would like distributed to the Olin community, please send it to Announcements@olin.edu

The next edition of the Link will be
available on February 2nd.

News You Can UsE
Phoenix Net – Did You Know?
Did you know that Phoenix Net (https://my.olin.edu), the Olin portal, now contains Accuweather current weather and forecast information for Needham, MA? Log in to the portal and click on “Campus Life” to decide whether you'll need your mittens and/or sunglasses! Just the tool for this winter's unseasonable conditions!

Office of Parent and Alumni Relations Seeks Student Worker
The Office of Parent and Alumni Relation is looking for a student worker who can assist with communication efforts such as mailings, database management, marketing design, event logistics, drafting newsletters, etc. The time commitment being sought is between 8-10 hours/week. Desired qualifications include strong writing and interpersonal skills, attention to detail, excellent organizational skills, familiarity with the Office suite of programs and such programs as Access. Knowledge of web design programs a plus. If you are interested in the position, please contact Krissy Raposa, Assistant Director, Parent and Alumni Relations.

Olin Employment Opportunities
A reminder that all open staff positions are posted on the Olin website. Please take a minute to review them and keep in mind that Human Resources is always looking for referrals from employees for all open positions.

The Wellness Corporation
Did you know that through our benefits program all Olin employees are offered EAP (Employee Assistance Provider) services through the Wellness Corporation? These services include confidential counseling and referrals; work/life information and referral services; work/life and wellness interactive website; management consultation and referral; budget and debt counseling services; legal consultation and referral services; health advocate; "Just-in-Time Care"; and wellness programming. For additional details on any of these services, please visit the Wellness Corporation's website. When calling to inquire further just mention you are an employee of Olin College - all services are confidential.

Fidelity Individual Counseling Sessions
Heather Peterson will be on campus Thursday, January 25th for individual financial counseling sessions. These are open to all staff and faculty. If you are interested in meeting with Heather, please call the following number for an appointment: 800-642-7131. The following times are available: 9:00, 9:30, 10:00, 10:30, 11:00, 11:30, 12:30 p.m., 1:00, 1:30, 2:00, 2:30, 3:00, 3:30.

• Visit Community Calendar for upcoming Olin community-wide events
• Visit CORe Public Calendar for upcoming Olin student activities
• Click Wellesley Campus Calendar for upcoming Wellesley College events
• Visit Babson Online Calendar for upcoming Babson College events

Homegrown Coffeehouse Features Merrie Amsterburg
On Saturday, February 3rd at 8:00 p.m. Merrie Amsterburg will perform at the Homegrown Coffeehouse located at the First Parish Unitarian Universalist Church, at the corner of Great Plain and Dedham Avenue in Needham center. Parking is free and admission is $15.00 / $12.00 students and seniors to benefit the Church. Merrie has won four ASCAP Popular Music Awards, the Top Female Soloist prize at the Boston Acoustic Underground series, two Boston Music Awards, a WFNX/Boston Phoenix Best Music Poll award, and was named Jam Magazine's Artist of the Year. She has sung on Public Radio International's “Mountain Stage” and on NPR's “World Café”, and has appeared six times at Fenway Park. For more information, click here.

Kudos
Olin Students Finalists in International Design Competition
On a whim, a team of five Olin students (Eric Munsing '08, Mel Chua '07, Andrew Bouchard '07, Gui Cavalcanti '08, and Joe Kendall '09) entered an international design competition they had discovered on the Web. The team now finds themselves to be finalists in the competition and are making plans to travel to Japan at the end of January to vie against 20 competitors from around the world. The team submitted an idea for a robot, dubbed “Echo,” that would sit on a person's shoulder in a public setting (such as a subway) and communicate with other such robots. The robots, which would be programmed with information about their owners' interests, would wave when they found matching interests. The waving robots would be a signal of compatible interests and lead, ideally, to social interaction. For more information about the competition and Echo, click here.