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Olin’s Green Campus Summer Fellowship

Hi! We, Stephanie Northway and Anne-Marie Buchenan, are students at the Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering. We are working for Andy DeMelia and the rest of Olin’s Facilities department as part of the Green Campus Summer Fellowship program. The program focuses on finding ways to make Olin more sustainable, and not only in the …read more

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Olin Students Develop New Freezer Technology

The following article was written by Ben Chapman, a first year student. It was published in the Olin College student newspaper. Freshmen Explore Sustainable Food-Storage On November 13, I was working Essex, VT with three other Olin Freshmen, on an exciting sustainable engineering project: a walk-in freezer that uses no energy. In July, I helped …read more

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Olin College Composting Project

In 2009 Olin College decided to initiate a composting program to see if it could reduce its waste stream. This fall, Olin has already composted more than all of last year and is on pace to compost over 9,000 lbs by the end of the academic year.

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