Gilda Barabino has been named the next president of Olin College of Engineering in Needham, effective July 1. Barabino’s unanimous selection by the Olin College board of trustees comes after a ...

Olin College, a small, highly regarded engineering school in Needham, has joined the ranks of colleges facing serious financial and leadership difficulties as it confronts a budget shortfall, concerns ...

Gilda Barabino is the president of Olin College of Engineering in Needham. Here, she talks about the challenges and responsibilities of being one of the first Black women in the country to enter the ...

The Olin College of Engineering has launched "Premier Recruitment Partners," a program inviting companies to "build stronger connections" with their students long before graduation. Businesses that ...

Gilda Barabino, dean of the Grove School of Engineering at City College of the City University of New York, will become president of Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering on July 1. She will succeed ...

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Since the Supreme Court's decision to end race-conscious college admissions, many college leaders have voiced concern about eliminating a powerful driver of increased racial diversity on campuses. The ...

Only about 20 percent of undergraduate engineering degrees in this country go to women. Olin College, a prestigious engineering college in Needham, is proud to be an outlier: Half its students are ...

Olin College of Engineering’s identity is built on being different. There are no academic departments in the undergraduate-only college with about 350 students. Professors work under five-year ...

Some call it a Roomba for weeds. Or a farmhand RoboCop. The students of Olin College of Engineering call their creation the PhoenixBot. Hoping to help small New England farms with the strenuous ...