Chris Morse is Olin’s chemistry department. He’s been teaching at Olin for six years, and his lectures are highly entertaining. Originally from Amherst, New Hampshire, Morse taught chemistry at Tufts before joining the faculty here.

Chris’s office was that of the ever-busy professor: a modern art calendar from his mother on the wall still flipped to January, shelves lined with gifts from thankful former students, and self-conscious piles of paper accumulated on all of the tables, exams portending the end of the semester. A magnet reads, “It's fun to use learning for evil!”

On Star Wars, stained glass, and integrated circuit design.

Brad Minch is one of Olin’s best respected professors. The son of two mathematicians, Minch earned his undergraduate degree in electrical engineering and his PhD in Computational Neural Systems from CalTech.

He came back to the Northeast for a teaching position at Cornell, where he won an award for dedicated and inspirational teaching, and a year later, came to teach at Olin.

A Candid Conversation with Aaron Hoover: on robotic cockroaches, Mobius gears, and the merits of failure.

Aaron Hoover is a new professor this semester, and so he and I both hope that this interview serves as a good introduction to most of the school. I was impressed; he received my questions with nothing less than the alacrity of a man truly passionate about his subject, and spoke with knowledge and obvious interest.

Alisha Sarang-Sieminski is an unmistakable character on Olin’s campus. Arguably one of our campus’s most outwardly liberal faculty, she’s tattooed, pierced, and feminist, and not afraid to talk about it.

From the woods of Western Washington, via an accidental transfer to MIT in her college years, Alisha has been working at Olin since September of 2005 (excepting last fall semester, in which she worked for Pfizer, in Cambridge, researching biotherapeutics).