By Julia Munemo Four decades at work in secondary school education may not be the most common path for an art history major to take, but according to Peter Thorp ’70, the connection is crystal clear. “At Williams, I was exposed to an ethic of teaching and learning in… Continue reading »
By Julia Munemo Students in Dorothy Wang’s Theories & Methods in American Studies class spent the fall applying what they’d learned about conducting research to the very institution they call home. Using the Williams College archives, each student dug into one aspect of the college’s past and wrote a… Continue reading »
The Dean’s Office got a nice surprise this fall in the form of a hefty envelope from Mesa, Ariz., filled with letters from Lowell Elementary School fifth-graders who had plenty of questions about life at Williams. “Do you offer scholarships? Because I want to be a scientist and to make… Continue reading »
By Julia Munemo The Williams College Museum of Art (WCMA) is about to get a new painting. It’s a 19th century landscape called Keene Valley by Hudson River School artist Hermann Fuechsel. But this painting wasn’t selected by the museum’s curatorial team or its director. Instead, it was… Continue reading »
Binney McCague ’03 says she’s known since middle school that she wanted to be a doctor. What she didn’t know until she came to Williams was that public policy was as important to her as working with patients. “It all started in an introductory political science course my freshman… Continue reading »
By Julia Munemo Violin has always been important to Alicia Choi ’09. As a student at New York’s Stuyvesant High School, she spent every Saturday at Juilliard, where she studied chamber music and orchestra in their pre-college division. She double majored in music and Chinese at Williams, and then returned… Continue reading »
When Jake Bingaman ’19 started college for the first time, in 2004, the U.S. had recently invaded Iraq. Although he wanted to earn a college degree—and had a scholarship from Miami University to do just that—Bingaman also felt a growing sense of commitment to his country. “We as a… Continue reading »
By Julia Munemo Juniors Linda Shin ’17 and Matthew Goss ’17 spent this summer measuring polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) levels in crayfish and trout from the Hoosic River. Their goal was to help determine if levels of the synthetic chemical compound have decreased in recent years. The… Continue reading »
Williams students headed for the hills for a day of outdoor community celebration. Continue reading »
If the walls of the Log could talk, one can only imagine the tales they would tell. Within its friendly confines, generations of Williams students and alumni mingled over frosty beverages and snacks, blew off steam at the foosball table, celebrated homecoming victories or settled in for Monday Night… Continue reading »