Scribner has published a memoir by Dylan Dethier, a 21-year-old Williamstown native and rising Williams College senior.

Williams College senior Monica Torres has been awarded the Jeffrey Owen Jones ’66 Fellowship in Journalism.

On Tuesday, May 14, Williams College will host one of its most important annual occasions, Appreciation Day, honoring staff members who have reached milestones in their service to the college.

M. Jennifer Bloxam, professor of music at Williams College, has been named a 2013-14 Fellow in Sacred Music, Worship, and the Arts at the Yale Institute of Sacred Music.

Williams College Museum of Art (WCMA) has won the 2012 award for Outstanding Exhibition in a University Museum for its exhibition Sol LeWitt: The Well-Tempered Grid.

Sixteen Williams College students and alumni were awarded Fulbright grants.

An annular eclipse of the Sun, when a ring of everyday Sun remains around the Moon’s silhouette, will sweep across the Australian outback and into the Pacific Ocean on the morning of May 10, local time.

Hopkins Memorial Forest will host a spring wildflower and botany walk on Sunday, May 5, from 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.

Maggie Little, director of the Kennedy Institute of Ethics and a member of the philosophy department at Georgetown University, will speak at 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday, May 1.

Christopher Wood, professor of art history at Yale University, will speak on Thursday, April 25, at 5 p.m. at the Williams College Museum of Art.

Megan Mayhew Bergman will give a fiction reading on Tuesday, April 23, at 4 p.m. in Griffin Hall, room 3, on the Williams College campus. This event is free and open to the public.

Williams College senior Jenny Tang of Brooklyn, N.Y., has been awarded a German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Graduate Scholarship. The DAAD gives highly qualified students the opportunity to complete an independent study in Germany or enroll in a full master’s degree program at a German university.

Williams College will award the annual George Olmsted Jr. Class of 1924 Prize for Excellence in Secondary School Teaching to four outstanding high school teachers on Saturday, June 1, at Ivy Exercises.

Guy Hedreen, professor of art at Williams College, has been named a 2013 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellow for his project, “The Iambic Artist in Greek Art, Lyric Poetry, and Homeric Epic.”

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has announced the award of research fellowships to six Williams College students and graduates and honorable mentions to eight.

Williams College junior Jared Hallett has been named a 2013 Goldwater Scholar by the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation.

Thomas F. Tyning, professor of environmental science at Berkshire Community College, will lead a foray in Hopkins Forest to look at a variety of its habitats and species from 10 a.m. to noon, Saturday, April 20.

Elisabeth Sussman, curator and Sondra Gilman Curator of Photography at the Whitney Museum of American art, will speak on Thursday, April 18.

Williams College junior Brian McGrail has been awarded the Harry S. Truman Scholarship.

Recent Williams College graduate José Martínez ’10 has been awarded the prestigious Gates Cambridge Scholarship to pursue a Ph.D. in politics and international studies at the University of Cambridge.