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On Wednesday, October 8 at 11:00 am in the Milas Hall Auditorium, the Presidential Lecture Series presents Bob Metcalfe. Mr. Metcalfe is the inventor of Ethernet, an MIT engineer, 3Com founder, InfoWorld pundit, recipient of the National Medal of Technology, and now Polaris partner. Join him in mining rich veins of Internet history for lessons on how to make energy “squanderably cheap and clean.” Click here for more information on the lecture and contact Joanne Kossuth with questions. We hope you'll join us for the event!
Friday, October 17 - Sunday, October 19 Olin will host its 5th annual Family Weekend. The event is a great opportunity for families to spend quality time with their students while visiting campus. Registration begins at 4:00 pm on Friday and we're offering a wide variety of things to do - from a welcoming dinner to student presentations and performances. Added bonus - fall in New England! The event will conclude at noon on Sunday. A detailed schedule is available on the Family Weekend website. All Olin community members are welcome. We hope to see you there!
Two of the festive activities planned for Family Weekend this year are apple picking and cider making. In collaboration with Olin's greening efforts, we'd like to ask staff, faculty and students to clean and recycle your plastic liquid containers, preferably gallon and half gallon sizes. These can be deposited on or before October 9. If you have any questions, please contact George Sass '10. We appreciate your help!
The process for nominating, selecting and recruiting speakers for the Olin commencement takes considerable planning and patience. Availability is a major constraint for many potential speakers and negotiations often require considerable lead-time, especially for speakers with significant national or international reputations. The Commencement Steering Committee at Olin maintains a continuing list of possible speakers, suggested by members of the greater Olin community, and forwards recommendations each year to President Miller and the Board of Trustees for their approval. The Commencement Steering Committee would appreciate your suggestions to expand our working list. Please submit your suggestions to Rod Crafts and include your rationale, describe any connection your nominee may have to Olin, and, if you have any special connection to the nominee that would facilitate our contacting her or him, please let us know.
Thank you very much for helping the Committee.
If you haven't yet read Jessie Sullivan's blog post you should because it's been featured in the ASCB's September 2008 newsletter. Jessie attended the ASCB meeting in early December where she presented her very own poster. The ASCB annual meeting is the premier international meeting in the field of cell biology and is intended for scientists and students in academia, industry, government and higher education. Over 100 scientific sessions and 3,500 poster presentations covered a variety of scientific areas within the discipline.
The Wellesley-Olin-Babson shuttles (cross-registration and Riverside T station) will not be operating on Columbus Day, October 13. Service will resume on Tuesday morning, October 14.
The consultants have compiled all the feedback and are ready to share it. Faculty, staff and students are all invited to participate in the following sessions which will focus on the themes derived from the initial feedback. These sessions will be held in the Milas Hall Computer Lab.
October 20 10 am-11:30 am
October 20 1 pm-2:30 pm
October 20 4 pm-5:30 pm
Babson College will be parking in our Lot D and Lot C (in available spots only, the lot is open to Olin community members as usual) on Friday, October 17 during the inauguration of Leonard A. Schlesinger as Babson's 12th president. Babson faculty and staff will be using Olin lots and Babson will provide a public safety officer as well as a van to shuttle people back and forth. The shuttle will enter and leave through Olin's main entrance. Babson will NOT need any parking on Saturday. If you have any questions please contact Joanne.
Consult this how-to guide when creating signs for your event and be sure to contact Stephanie Rizzitano with any questions.
Emma Goodman '06 will be a part of the 3-Act American Premiere of Edward Albee's Seascape this coming October 3 - October 25 at the BCA Plaza Theater on Tremont Street in South Boston with Zeitgeist Theater Company. The show is one of Albee's lighter plays about a human couple interacting with a lizard couple on the edge of evolution. More details and ticket info can be found at www.BostonTheatreScene.com. Also, there is a pay-what-you-can night (min $5) on Thursday, October 9. Emma hopes you can make it!
Know anyone looking for temporary housing? If so please contact
John Geddes. He and his family are headed to Scotland next year, during his sabbatical and are looking for someone to rent their home to for approximately six months (January - August 2009). More information and photos of the house can be found here. BTW: He's offering a good discount to any tenant associated with Olin!
Olin students/entrepreneurs are invited to participate in Babson's Rocket Pitch 2008. At his event you'll have the opportunity to pitch your business ideas to a large audience of students, faculty, entrepreneurs, investors, and service providers. Each entrepreneur is given three minutes and three PowerPoint slides to quickly and succinctly deliver the critical differentiating elements of their business ideas. Pitches happen in rapid succession in multiple rooms with no time for questions allotted. Click here to learn more.
Frances Moore Lappé, author and internationally known food activist, will be speaking at the Needham League of Women Voters upcoming Fall Forum, Food for Thought: Eating Well for Ourselves and the Planet. The event is open to the public and will take place at the Olin College Auditorium on Monday, October 20, at 7:30 pm. Ms. Lappé, who wrote the bestseller, Diet for a Small Planet, will give an inspiring presentation about how food choices affect our own health and the health of the environment. A fun evening is planned, with door prizes, recipes, and informational displays from the local food community. Additionally, Ms. Lappé will be available to sign books audience members bring along. The event is co-sponsored by the Green Needham Collaborative.What: Registration - Monday, October 20 (This session will consist of an Introduction to the Group Leader, Arlene Lewis, and time for Q&A.)
When: 12-1 pm ** all meetings will be Mondays, 12-1pm, in Nichols 170.
Where: Nichols 170 (Babson)
Other: Please bring a check made out to Weight Watchers for $156.00/12 wks. Major credit cards are also accepted.
“Save the Day” is Kate Campbell’s newest CD, which she’ll be celebrating at a CD release concert on October 18 at the Homegrown Coffeehouse. “Save the Day” is also a fine reminder not to miss the party at the Homegrown Coffeehouse, when one of the longest-running folk music venues in New England celebrates its 25th Anniversary. So much great music has happened on the Homegrown Coffeehouse stage that it’s hard to list it all – but 25 years of highlights are on the website, for people who like to look back at how the Boston folk scene has evolved. 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 $20.00/$17.00 students and seniors to benefit the Church. For more information, call 781-444-7478.
On October 15, Arnold Good will join Olin as an Adjunct Professor of Mathematics. His office location and phone extension is to be determined.
"Top 20 Rankings for Best College Food,"Yahoo! Food, September 25, 2008
** Olin is ranked # 7
"Young Man on Campus," Boston Globe, September 23, 2008
"Blocking Transmission," the Engineer online, September 22, 2008
In the last issue we asked for trivia submissions, they are always welcome so please don't hesitate to share them.
Trivia buffs, do you know...
Q: Which CID session was most highly attended?
A: First person to respond to Alyson Goodrow with the correct answer receives a prize.
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