About BOW
About BOWThe Babson/Olin/Wellesley Three College Collaboration is a joint effort among Babson, Olin, and Wellesley Colleges.
The goals of the collaboration are to:
- Expand educational opportunities for students
- Develop interdisciplinary approaches to teaching and problem solving
- Facilitate faculty research and teaching projects across campuses
- Share best practices and collaborating in administrative functions
The vision behind the Three College Collaboration is to provide our students with the creative and collaborative skills, knowledge, and ways of thinking needed to function successfully today and into the future. The global challenges of our time, which will define the world our graduates enter, are complex and inherently interdisciplinary, and require teamwork. Because of the distinctive strengths of each of the institutions involved and the leadership commitment from the three presidents, we are well poised to address these issues from varying perspectives and to engage students in cross-disciplinary and collaborative ways. The new collaboration moves beyond the activities of most consortia by taking advantage of the schools’ complementary curricula to create innovative approaches to student learning and problem solving and to provide all students with the tools to work across disciplines.
BOW Colleges
BOW Colleges Praveen.Kumar3… Fri, 07/17/2020 - 14:47BOW Digest
BOW DigestBOW publishes a monthly digest to keep people informed of what is going on across the three campuses. Have an event or exciting opportunity you would like publicized in the digest? Please email Jamie Engle at jengle@olin.edu at least two weeks prior to your event.
BOW Professional Staff
BOW Professional StaffThe BOW Staff is comprised of the Faculty Steering Committee, the BOW Program Coordinator, and the Student Ambassadors. Together, they seek to fulfill the mission of the Collaboration.
BOW Faculty Steering Committee
The Joint Faculty Steering Committee is the driving force of the Collaboration. The overall charge of the Committee is to broaden and deepen interest among the community in the Collaboration. The Committee has a high level of autonomy to experiment and innovate. Each committee member serves as the point person on each campus for communication and dialogue about the Collaboration.
This year’s Faculty Steering Committee members are:
Davit Khachatryan, Babson College
Dr. Davit Khachatryan is an applied statistician with research interests in analyzing patent data. Davit's current and former research has produced publications in academic, peer-reviewed journals such as Journal of the Royal Statistical Society (Series C), The American Statistician, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, Scientometrics, and Journal of Quality Technology. Prior to joining Babson College, Davit was a Senior Associate at the National Economics and Statistics practice of PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC). In the latter role he consulted in the area of predictive modeling and advanced data analytics, helping clients from financial, healthcare, and government sectors with building automatic predictive models and enhancing business intelligence solutions. Davit has earned his B.S. in Applied Mathematics and Informatics from Yerevan State University, M.S. in Statistics and Ph.D. in Management Science from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Jean Huang, Olin College
Dr. Jean Huang joins Olin from the University of Washington, Seattle, where she was a postdoctoral scholar in the Department of Microbiology. She received a Ph.D. in biology from the California Institute of Technology, and a B.A. in Biology from Wellesley College. Dr. Huang has also studied the microbial world at the Marine Biological laboratory in Woods Hole, MA, first as a student and then as a teaching assistant for the Microbial Diversity Summer Course. Dr. Huang is recipient of a teaching award from Caltech, and she was a US EPA STAR predoctoral fellow. She has also been a faculty collaborator for the DOE-JGI Undergraduate Genome Annotation Program and a participant of the NSF/ASM Biology Scholars Program. Dr. Huang is enthusiastic about studying the diversity and physiology of photosynthetic bacteria and about applying bacterial metabolic capabilities towards solving environmental challenges.
Franklyn Turbak, Wellesley College
Professor Turbak is an Associate Professor in the Computer Science Department at Wellesley College. He started at Wellesley in 1995 after receiving his bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees in Computer Science from MIT. His passion is the study of programs and programming languages, which is at the heart of both his teaching and research. His interests include the design, analysis, and implementation of expressive programming languages, graphical representations of programs, and the visualization of computational processes. He is the co-author of the textbook Design Concepts in Programming Languages.
BOW Program Coordinator
Jamie Engle
Jamie joined the BOW Collaboration in 2018. She has a bachelor's degree from Franklin and Marshall College and a Master's of Education in Higher Education from Harvard Graduate School of Education. She spent much of her career prior to this role in Student Affairs at Tufts and is excited to join this collaboration and work with faculty, students, and staff from all three institutions.
BOW Student Ambassadors
BOW Student AmbassadorsBOW Student Ambassadors
The BOW Student Ambassadors are elected student leaders from each BOW campus. The Ambassadors serve as an enabling group to initiate, support, and promote interaction and cooperation among the institutions and their students. The Ambassadors can submit proposals to the BOW Program Coordinator and/or the BOW Faculty Steering Committee with recommendations for improved cooperation.
The Ambassadors are committed to:
- Encouraging students to make full use of the opportunities and resources of all campuses.
- Serving as liaisons for BOW student logistical challenges and communicating student needs as they arise (e.g. transportation, funding, and cross-registration).
- Holding BOW student meetings to identify student needs and concerns and to develop events that encourage BOW student interaction.
- Assisting in the advertisement of BOW events and activities.
- Meeting regularly as a group and with BOW Administration.
Current Student Ambassadors
Jenna Lozano
Babson College, '26
Hello BOW Community, I’m Jenna Lozano, the new BOW Ambassador for Babson College. I’m a sophomore concentrating in Marketing. I love drumming, basketball, and adventure activities like skydiving, ziplining, and cliff diving. I can’t wait to work on many projects this year to help unite the campuses. A sneak-peak of what we have to come is jumpstarting an annual BOW Bonfire!!!
Dakota Chang
Olin College, '23
Dakota is a first-year Engineering: Computing student from Hong Kong and Canada. At Olin, she is involved with all sorts of activities from e-board PInT (Public Interest Tech) to machine learning research. Her goal through this position is to encourage people to take advantage of the resources on each campus.
Summer Chen
Wellesley College, '24
Hey all! My name is Summer and I'm a sophomore studying Neuroscience and Philosophy. I call southern California and Shanghai home. On campus, I am involved in tutoring, volunteering, and literary magazines. I love to watch TV, take walks, and try out different restaurants. I hope to foster a greater connection between the three campus communities through hosting more BOW events.
Past Student Ambassadors
Babson | Olin | Wellesley | |
2021-2022 | Kellen Harrison | Moises Sabido Garcia | Summer Chen |
2020-2021 | Aditya Agarwal | Sree Chalimadugu | Zhirui (Amy) Xiong |
2019-2020 | Julia Lin | Shreya Chowdhary | Audrea Huang |
2018-2019 | Eric Li | Anusha Datar | Audrea Huang |
2017-2018 | Aiswarya Arul | Kim Winter | Hannah Kwak |
2016-2017 | My-Linh DeBonis | Sara Ballantyne | Kathryn Hansen |
Spring 2016 | Danielle Cataldo | Maggie Jakus | Katelyn Campbell |
Fall 2015 | Christina Xiao | Maggie Jakus | Katelyn Campbell |
Spring 2015 | Arjun Rajesh | Ian Hill | Kathryn Tran |
Annual Reports
Annual ReportsFAQ
FAQThese are some frequently asked questions. Reach out to your BOW ambassador for further information.