June 5, 2022—Williams College President Maud S. Mandel today conferred Bachelor of Arts degrees to five local graduates at the college’s 233rd Commencement. Jon Meacham, the Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer and noted commentator, was the principal speaker. Continue reading »
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass., Nov. 23, 2021—Jay Pasachoff, director of Williams College’s Hopkins Observatory and Field Memorial Professor of Astronomy, announces the Williams College Eclipse Expedition’s plans for the December 4 total solar eclipse over and near Antarctica. Pasachoff has been observing total solar eclipses together with Williams College students for 50… Continue reading »
Nov. 15, 2021—An innovative collaborative energy project has started delivering electricity to five New England colleges—and to tens of thousands of students, staff and faculty—as a new solar energy facility has gone online in Farmington, Maine. Continue reading »
Nov. 9, 2021—Starting this summer, Williams College will be among the first schools in the country to entirely eliminate students’ summer earnings requirement for all four years. Continue reading »
August 17, 2021--Eight members of the Class of 2021 are beginning studies at Cambridge University and Oxford University this fall, with support from Williams fellowships. Continue reading »
August 10, 2021—Pamela E. Harris, Associate Professor of Mathematics at Williams College and Faculty Fellow of the college’s Davis Center and Office of Institutional Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, was today named a fellow in the third cohort of the IAspire Leadership Academy, a leadership program aimed at helping STEM faculty from underrepresented backgrounds ascend to leadership roles at colleges and universities. Continue reading »
July 14, 2021—Ron Bassar, assistant professor of biology at Williams College, has been awarded a prestigious grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF). The three-year, $1.6 million dollar grant will support research aimed at understanding how temporal variation in ecological and evolutionary processes allow similar species to coexist. Continue reading »
June 17, 2021—Williams College President Maud S. Mandel recognized local graduates from the Class of 2021 at the college’s Senior Celebration, held on Monday, May 31. Continue reading »
June 1, 2021—The Williams Graduate Program in the History of Art, offered in collaboration with the Clark Art Institute, will celebrate the program’s 14 graduates at its Graduate Symposium on Friday, June 4. Graduates will present papers and participate in the annual M.A. Hooding Ceremony. Continue reading »
May 28, 2021—Williams College has announced its 2021 Bicentennial Olmsted Awards for Faculty and Curricular Development to the Berkshire Arts and Technology Charter Public School (BART), Hoosac Valley Regional School District, McCann Technical School, Mount Greylock Regional School, North Adams Public Schools, Pine Cobble School, and Pownal Elementary School. Continue reading »
May 21, 2021—Williams College senior Jonathan Deng ’21 has been awarded a Class of 1945 Florence Chandler Memorial Fellowship. The award provides a $30,000 grant to support a year of purposeful, independent study outside the United States. Continue reading »
May 19, 2021—Williams College will host a two-day virtual conference on May 20-21, 2021, that aims to open “the desert” up for robust comparative discussions about desert spaces across the world and across different media and modes of representation. Continue reading »
May 4, 2021—On May 4, Williams College celebrated its annual Appreciation Day which honors staff members who have reached milestones in their service to the college. Continue reading »
May 3, 2021—Williams College President Maud S. Mandel, received a Doctor of Humane Letters, honoris causa, from Brown University during the university’s commencement on Sunday, May 2. Continue reading »
Nick Goldrosen ’20 has been awarded a highly competitive Gates Cambridge scholarship to study at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom. Continue reading »
April 30, 2021—Williams College will host an online event with award-winning fiction writer Min Jin Lee, who will read and discuss her work in conversation with Sam Crane, chair of Asian studies and the Edward S. Greenbaum 1910 Professor of Political Science. Continue reading »
April 16, 2021—In honor of Earthweek at Williams College, Judith Enck, former Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regional administrator and visiting professor at Bennington College, will give a talk on April 22, titled “Moving Beyond Plastic: The Environmental Justice, Climate Change and Health Issue of Our Time.” Continue reading »
April 13, 2021—Named in honor of Williams College’s first Black graduate, who was admitted to Williams in 1885, Williams awards its Gaius Charles Bolin Fellowships to graduate students from underrepresented groups who are working toward a Ph.D. in the humanities or in the natural, social, or behavioral sciences. Continue reading »
April 12, 2021—Williams College presents an evening of poetry and conversation featuring five transgender poets who will read and discuss their book of poetry, Subject to Change. The event is free and open to the public and will be held from 7:30 to 8:45 p.m. on Thursday, April 15. Continue reading »
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