News Releases

Media contact: Noelle Lemoine, communications assistant; tele: (413) 597-4277; email: [email protected] WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass., March 19, 2001 — Williams College has announced the following administrative appointments: Amy Costa as sports medicine intern. She comes to Williams from Bridgewater State College. Lisa Dorin as curatorial assistant at the Williams College Museum of… Continue reading »

Media contact: Noelle Lemoine, communications assistant; tele: (413) 597-4277; email: [email protected] WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass., March 19, 2001–Williams College has announced the appointment of Maryann E. Martone as visiting associate professor of psychology and Karen Newman as a Margaret Bundy Scott Visiting Professor of English for spring 2001. Martone is associate adjunct… Continue reading »

Media contact: Noelle Lemoine, communications assistant; tele: (413) 597-4277; email: [email protected] WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass., March 15, 2001–Books printed by hand at the press of Leonard and Virginia Woolf are on display through April 27, 2001 in the Chapin Library of Rare Books, Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts. British authors Leonard and Virginia… Continue reading »

Media contact: Noelle Lemoine, communications assistant; tele: (413) 597-4277; email: [email protected] WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass., March 14, 2001–Williams College has announced that Robert E. Rubin, former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury will be the principal speaker at the college’s 212th Commencement on Sunday, June 3. Mr. William H. Gray, III, president of… Continue reading »

Media contact: Noelle Lemoine, communications assistant; tele: (413) 597-4277; email: [email protected] WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass., March 8, 2001–Noted novelist and short story writer Charles Baxter will read from his fiction on Monday, March 12, at 4 p.m. in Griffin Hall, room 3. Baxter is the author of three novels; the most recent… Continue reading »

Media contact: Noelle Lemoine, communications assistant; tele: (413) 597-4277; email: [email protected] WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass., March 8, 2001–The National Science Foundation (NSF) has recently awarded a $287,892 grant to Williams College in support of the work of computer science professors Kim Bruce, Andrea Danyluk, and Thomas Murtagh. The two-year Course, Curriculum and… Continue reading »

Media contact: Noelle Lemoine, communications assistant; tele: (413) 597-4277; email: [email protected] WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass., March 7, 2001–Gene Bell-Villada, associate professor of romance languages at Williams College, will conclude the 2001 Faculty Lecture Series with his talk on “Nabokov, Ayn Rand, Mr. Bounderby, My Father, and Me.” The lecture will be held… Continue reading »

Media contact: Noelle Lemoine, communications assistant; tele: (413) 597-4277; email: [email protected] WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass., Feb. 27, 2001 — Robert Pinsky, former Poet Laureate of the United States, will give a public reading on Tuesday, March 6, at 8 p.m. at the Adams Memorial Theatre. The reading will precede a commentary and… Continue reading »

Media contact: Noelle Lemoine, communications assistant; tele: (413) 597-4277; email: [email protected] WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass., Feb. 27, 2001 — The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded $182,189 in research support to Kenneth Schmidt, a visiting assistant professor of biology at Williams College who studies the ecological relations between predators and their prey. Continue reading »

Media contact: Noelle Lemoine, communications assistant; tele: (413) 597-4277; email: [email protected] WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass., Feb. 27, 2001 — Williams College has announced the promotion of four assistant professors to the rank of associate professor with tenure, effective July 1, 2002. The professors are Sarah R. Bolton, in the physics department; Amy… Continue reading »

Media contact: Noelle Lemoine, communications assistant; tele: (413) 597-4277; email: [email protected] WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass., Feb. 27, 2001 — With his new book, “Revealing Masks: Exotic Influences and Ritualized Performance in Modernist Music Theater” (University of California Press), W. Anthony Sheppard considers a wide range of important musical works in this fascinating… Continue reading »

Media contact: Noelle Lemoine, communications assistant; tele: (413) 597-4277; email: [email protected] WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass., Feb. 27, 2001 — The National Science Foundation has awarded Williams College $288,889 in grant support for the research of Robert Savage, assistant professor of biology. Savage studies development in annelids using genetic knowledge from ‘model’ systems… Continue reading »

Media contact: Noelle Lemoine, communications assistant; tele: (413) 597-4277; email: [email protected] WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass., Feb. 27, 2001 — Win Wassenar, director of physical plant, will speak on “The Williams College Architectural Arboretum: Before, During, and After,” on Thursday, March 1. The talk will be held at 4:15 p.m. in Room 123… Continue reading »

Media contact: Noelle Lemoine, communications assistant; tele: (413) 597-4277; email: [email protected] WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass., Feb. 21, 2001 — How can a liberal democracy protect the rights of its minorities? In a new book, Williams assistant professor of political science Monique Deveaux might provide some answers. In “Cultural Pluralism and Dilemmas of… Continue reading »

Media contact: Noelle Lemoine, communications assistant; tele: (413) 597-4277; email: [email protected] WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass., Feb. 21, 2001 — A recent study found that Williams College has one of the highest black graduation rates in the country. The research was conducted by The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education and will appear… Continue reading »

Media contact: Noelle Lemoine, communications assistant; tele: (413) 597-4277; email: [email protected] WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass., February 21, 2001 — One of America’s most renowned poets, Louise Glück is the winner of the coveted Bollingen Prize in Poetry. She is the Preston S. Parish ’41 Third Century Senior Lecturer in English at Williams… Continue reading »

Media contact: Noelle Lemoine, communications assistant; tele: (413) 597-4277; email: [email protected] WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass., Feb. 20, 2001 — Poet Stephen Dunn will read selections of his poetry on Wednesday, Feb. 28, at 4 p.m. in Griffin Hall, room 3, on the campus of Williams College. He is the author of 11… Continue reading »

Media contact: Noelle Lemoine, communications assistant; tele: (413) 597-4277; email: [email protected] WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass., Feb. 16, 2001 — Lee Y. Park, associate professor of chemistry at Williams College, will present a lecture on “Liquid Crystal and Molecular Wires — Doing Chemistry in One Dimension” on Thursday, Feb. 22 at 4:15 p.m. Continue reading »

Media contact: Noelle Lemoine, communications assistant; tele: (413) 597-4277; email: [email protected] WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass., Feb. 16, 2001 — Hot new songs from a rising generation of musical theatre composers and lyricists will be featured in a special Williamstown performance by Broadway tenor and Williams College alumnus Michael Winther ’85. The performance,… Continue reading »

Media contact: Noelle Lemoine, communications assistant; tele: (413) 597-4277; email: [email protected] WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass., Feb. 16, 2001–Williams College will host a community coffee with The Honorable Madeleine Kunin on Tuesday, Feb. 27, from 8:30 to 9:30 a.m. in the Faculty House (968 Main Street). Ambassador Kunin will discuss “An Insiders View… Continue reading »