Christopher Nugent has been awarded the 2012 Joseph Levenson Book Prize in the pre-1900 category for his 2010 book, Manifest in Words, Written on Paper: Producing and Circulating Poetry in Tang Dynasty China.

Darra Goldstein has been awarded the 2012 James Beard Foundation Journalism Award for Publication of the Year for the quarterly journal on food and culture, Gastronomica.

In his new book, Building the Judiciary: Law, Courts, and the Politics of Institutional Development, Justin Crowe examines the reasons behind and consequences of the institutional development of the federal judiciary in the United States.

Williams College will award its annual George Olmsted, Jr., Class of 1924 Prize for Excellence in Secondary School Teaching to four outstanding high school teachers on Saturday, June 2, at Ivy Exercises.

An annular solar eclipse will sweep across Asia, the Pacific Ocean, and the western United States on May 20. Williams College astronomy professor Jay Pasachoff will observe it from New Mexico, joined by professional colleagues and by eight undergraduate students.

Williams College will host a screening of the documentary, Precious Knowledge, at Images Cinema in Williamstown. The event is free and open to the public.

Sara Dubow ’91 has be promoted to the position of associate professor with tenure.

Williams College has announced its 2012 local Bicentennial Olmsted Awards for Faculty Development to McCann Technical School, Mt. Greylock Regional School, and Williamstown Elementary School.

The Williams College Office of Fellowships has awarded Hubbard Hutchinson Fellowships to five graduating seniors pursuing careers in the arts.

Hopkins Memorial Forest will host a spring wildflower and botany walk on Saturday, May 5.

On Tuesday, May 1, Williams College will host one of its most important annual occasions, Appreciation Day.

Winners of the annual Academy of American Poets and Wainwright Fiction Writing contests will read from their work on April 30.

Wellesley Professor Susan M. Reverby will deliver the Annual Weiss Lecture titled “Beyond Apologies and Melodramas: The U.S. Public Health Service Sexually Transmitted Diseases Studies in Tuskegee and Guatemala.”

Senior Brent Eng has been named the recipient of this year’s Class of 1945 Florence Chandler Fellowship.

David Ferrucci to give lecture, “Beyond Jeopardy! The Future of Watson.”

John Stobierski will present a lecture titled, “The Clergy Sex Abuse Crisis: How Psychology, Religion, and the Law Collided to Expose Hypocrisy, Corruption, and Child Sex Abuse.”

Bobby Bailey, co-founder of Invisible Children Inc. and the Global Poverty Project, will present “A Decade in Pursuit of Kony: The Unorthodox Ways of Building a Movement.”

“Where the Wild Things Are,” a series of food foraging walks, will take place on the last weekend of April and the first weekend of May around Williamstown.

Architect Michael Arad will talk about his experiences designing the World Trade Center memorial in “Reflecting Absence – The Design and Construction of the National 9/11 Memorial.”

The Oceans Symposium at Williams College will conclude on Tuesday, April 24, with a lecture by James Carlton.