FY13 and FY14 Alumni Cash Participation

If you haven't made a gift to Olin this FY, you can make an online gift (or fulfill your pledge) today! It’s also an ideal time to contribute, because an anonymous donor will match your gift dollar for dollar up to $52,500. Your gift of any amount can go to the designation of your choice and this generous match will be designated toward scholarship, providing an important benefit to future students!

(Hint from fellow alumni who have already donated: recurring gifts or pledge fulfillment make it easier to donate now and in the future and save you from future reminders.)

An alumna's incredible European adventures
Having won a Gates Cambridge scholarship in her senior year, Ilana Walder-Biesanz '13 graduated and then began the transition from our small, ten-year-old college to the 800+ year-old University of Cambridge. There Ilana is about to complete a Master of Philosophy degree in European Literature and Culture. During her year abroad she has studied Neitzsche and Freud, participated in more than nine productions (serving as actor, American accent coach and chorus member), done a great deal of classical singing and traveled to Grenada, Normandy, Vienna and Prague. Most recently Ilana accepted a Fulbright Scholarship and plans to spend the 2014-15 academic year studying the use of technology in theater and opera in Germany. She has chronicled her exciting year and many of the details are presented on our post-graduate-planning blog. READ MORE

'14 Outcomes and Your Portfolios: A PGP Update
84 new Olin grads have been launched from the Bubble into the Big World. With this class, we have our first alumni attending grad school for dentistry and cinema arts. Four grad-school bound seniors will attend Stanford, and CMU and MIT grad programs will have two students each. Two additional seniors will go to Harvard Business school after working for two years. Entrepreneurs in this class will continue working on their own businesses - including Lilypad Scales and The Technical Machine. Others will work for Amazon, Boeing, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Spacex, Teach for America and Twitter. Several are planning to travel for the summer before settling in to their new lives. Check out more accomplishments of the Class of ’14 - both wise and wacky - here. 

Remember, OlinJobFinder which is a library of example portfolios, is a great resource provided by PGP. We’re reaching out to both current students and alumni in the hopes that you will share your awesome portfolios with us! If you’ve got a portfolio that you’re proud of and willing to share just send an email to PGP with a link to it.

Summer Parties - June - August
Check our website or our events calendar for details on a party coming to an area near you!
Belmont CA - June 21
Mountain View CA - June 28
Pittsburgh PA - July 12
Avon CT - July 12
Glenview IL - July 13
Lafayette CA- July 19
Tustin CA - July 19
Southborough MA - July 19


Alumni Weekend - September 19 - 21
We currently have 29 RSVP's for Alumni Weekend on our Facebook event! Updates on the schedule of diverse, fun, awesome activities to come! Visit our Lodging, Dining, & Area Tips page for the available hotel room rates/blocks for that weekend.

*Alumni Weekend is formerly known as Reunion Weekend. The focus of the weekend will be on celebrating all alumni and reconnecting you with one another and on-campus community members. There will also be a special event to celebrate the 5-year Reunion for the Class of 2009

President Miller, Director of Family and Alumni Relations Krissy Raposa, and Mary Kay McFadden, the new VP of DFAR were thrilled to reconnect in person with many at last week's Bay Area Alumni Social. Thanks to nearly 40 who were able to attend and the OAC and Pocket Gems for helping us host such a successful event. In addition to catching up, alumni enjoyed hearing from Rick regarding the Boston Globe article response, need for faculty, collaboratory updates and more. See pictures from the event here.