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The Olin Community will congregate in the Auditorium on Wednesday, October 3rd beginning at 11:00 a.m. for a memorial service for Matthew Bowes and Rachel Karis. All members of the community are invited to attend.
This weekend's edition of the New York Times Magazine includes an in-depth article on Olin. The compelling, well written article can be found online as well as in the hard copy magazine. Student quotes and stories were provided by Andrew Coats '08, Alison Lee '07, Meenakshi Vembusubramanian '08, and Alyssa Levitz '11 and once again President Miller did an outstanding job telling the Olin story and providing quotable quotes. Thank you to all who helped make this happen; enjoy the story!
Marshall Carter has become the newest member of the President's Council. Mr. Carter is Chairman of the New York Stock Exchange and Deputy Chairman of NYSE Euronext, as well as the former President of State Street Bank. Recently he was a lecturer in leadership and management at the Sloan School of Management at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, where from 2001 to 2005 he was a Fellow at the Center for Public Leadership and the Center for Business and Government.
Olin College has begun offering a new “Certificate in Engineering Studies” that will enable students at Wellesley, Brandeis and Babson to explore engineering and gain experience for careers or further study. The program is designed to provide students with a fundamental understanding of engineering in a plan of study typically consisting of five courses. The program is aimed at students in non-engineering fields who wish to learn more about engineering because they are considering careers in industry, are planning on entering graduate school in engineering, or are simply curious to learn more about technology-related disciplines. For more information, contact Asst. Prof. Mark Chang, Certificate Program Coordinator, at x2559.
On Thursday October 11, the Office of Post Graduate Planning (PGP) will host the fifth annual Career Initiatives Day. Details of the days events can be found on the PGP website.
Please join us on Tuesday, October 2 at 3:00 p.m. in the auditorium for a snapshot of all the projects in SCOPE this year. Each of the 13 teams will present. Don’t miss this opportunity to support SCOPE students and learn about their projects from the very beginning.
An ice cream sundae social will be held in the OC 1st floor lobby following the presentations. We hope to see you there! Click here for a snapshot of the 2007-2008 SCOPE team members and their advisors.
Both the Community and CORe Calendars can be found under the Campus Life tab on the portal. Most major campus wide events, such as holidays, Family Weekend, Expo presentations, etc. have already been posted to the Community Calender, but as the name implies we'd like to encourage the entire community to post their events here so that everyone knows what's happening around campus.Michael Maloney will be on campus early next week, in the AC jam room, taking headshots of Olin's newest class. If you've been looking to update your headshot please feel free to drop by the jam room between 1:00-3:00 on Monday and 10:00-1:00 on Tuesday.
Have you submitted your Olin pics as part of our 1st Annual Open Call for photos campaign? If not there's still time! See our original call by clicking here. Thanks to all who have already submitted, those entries can be found on Flickr. Deadline is October 1 so get those cameras clicking!
The Summer Book Program Advisory Committee is accepting suggestions for next summer's book. The committee will consider four factors in reviewing your suggestions: readability, lends itself to a Convocation discussion, relates to the Olin curriculum, and is available in paperback or at paperback price. Suggestions (title, author and brief rationale) should be sent to Rod Crafts by Wednesday, October 31. The Summer Book Program is supported by the class gift from the Class of 2006. Mark your calendars now for next fall's Convocation on Thursday, August 28, 2008, at 7:00 p.m. in the Olin Center Auditorium. The most recent profile for the Class of 2007 is now live on the PGP website. Click here to get an idea of where Olin's second class of alumni are working, attending graduate school or doing other cool things like studying in South Korea on a Fulbright scholarship.
Olin's annual Family Weekend events will commence at 5:00 p.m. on Friday, October 12 and conclude at 12:00 p.m. on Sunday, October 14. Watch your inbox for an invite from Krissy Raposa and additional information regarding the Family Weekend website.
Area receptions bring together Olin alumni, parents, corporate partners and friends of the college with the purpose of meeting with President Miller as well as participating Trustees and get an update on the college.
October 10 at Olin College, Needham Massachusetts, hosted by Trustee Robert McBurney
October 18 at Luce Restaurant, 252 Route 100 in Somers, NY hosted by Trustee Carla Gude
November 19 at the home of Trustee Scott Gibson in Portland, OR
Click here to view the schedule of computer training classes hosted by Babson as part of its professional development services.On October 12, beginning at 8:30 am, the 6th Annual Forum on Entrepreneurship and Innovation will take place at Babson! John Sculley, former CEO of Apple is keynoting the event. Registration is $30 until October 2 when the fee will rise $5. Additional information can be found on the FEI site. Attendees will walk away with an understanding of how Mechatronics, when properly implemented, can improve every aspect of design. The event will take place at the Burlington Marriott in Burlington, MA. Registration begins at 7:30 a.m. with the keynote address by Kevin Craig, Professor of mechanical engineering at RPI beginning at 8:30 a.m. Click here for more information.
Join the Needham community on Saturday, October 6 at 7:00 p.m. at Memorial Field on Highland Avenue (Needham High School) to participate in an event aimed at raising awareness in our community about violence against women. The evening will include a march around town, guest speakers, live bands, and much more! Organizers include the Needham Domestic Violence Action Committee and several Needham High School students. Take Back the Night first started in Europe in 1976 to protect women who feared walking home at night alone and it has continued all over the globe as a sign of empowerment for women, men, and children. Now it has become a long standing tradition on college campuses around the country and the Needham community is hoping to start a tradition here. Participate in the event or volunteer to help! For more information, contact Allison Black or Alex Hogan. Thanks!
International Joint Conferences
on Computer, Information, and Systems Sciences, and Engineering CIS2E 07 provides a virtual forum for presentation and discussion of state-of the-art research
on computers, information and systems sciences and engineering.
The virtual conference will be conducted through the Internet using web-conferencing tools, made available by the conference.
Prospective authors are invited to submit full papers electronically in Microsoft Word format through the conference website. The deadline to submit papers for consideration is October 5.
"Re-engineering Engineering," The New York Times Magazine, September 30, 2007
"'Engineering Schools That Tie Theory and Practice Together Retain More Students," IEEE Spectrum, September 19, 2007
"Students’ ‘Evolving’ Use of Technology," InsideHigherEd.com, September 17, 2007
In the last issue we asked "What was the slogan on the t-shirts given out at the first Olin/Needham event? Extra credit if you can also answer "Where was this event?" Emily Moscol was the first to respond correctly guessing Needham: America's Newest College Town and the soccer field near the mods.
Trivia buffs, do you know...
Q: How many faculty were in the original group hired to teach at Olin?
A: First person to respond to Alyson Goodrow with the correct answer receives a prize.
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