Mountain Day 2019
On Friday, October 11, the Williams community woke to an email from President Mandel canceling classes and declaring the day Mountain Day! Check out photos and a video from the annual tradition! … Continue reading »
Feature Stories
It’s Mountain Day! 2019
Williams students headed for the hills for a day of outdoor community celebration. Continue reading »
From Soccer to Rugby, Kristi Kirshe ’17 Excels
Kristi Kirshe ’17 loved sports, playing in any youth league available during her childhood, zoning in on soccer, basketball and lacrosse in high school and focusing on soccer at Williams, becoming an All-American forward. Once she graduated and life no longer revolved around sports, she felt something was missing. Then… Continue reading »
Garfield House One of Two Passive Houses in State
When the Garfield House residence hall opens for students next month, it will be one of only two residence halls in Massachusetts to meet the energy-efficiency standards of the Passive House Institute US. Considered the most stringent energy performance criteria in the industry, the standards are focused on a… Continue reading »
Assets for Artists
Above: Screen shot from video by Monica Ching Chen “In the aftermath of Hurricane Maria, like a lot of people in the diaspora, I started asking myself what I could do to help the people of Puerto Rico,” says assistant professor of art Mari Rodríguez Binnie, who was born and… Continue reading »
Neil Peterson ’65: Coaching Kids With ADHD
Fifteen years ago, not long after Neil Peterson ’65 sold his successful business, he was driving his daughter back to college and she asked him what his next steps might be. When he hesitated, she suggested that he do for other children what he had done for her and her… Continue reading »
Phebe Cramer Honored
Phebe Cramer, emerita professor of psychology, is the 2018 winner of the Henry A. Murray Award. The award, which the Association for Research in Personality (ARP) presents once every two years, “recognizes outstanding scientific and humanistic scholarship in the psychological study of individual human lives,” as stated in the announcement. Continue reading »
230th Commencement
Congratulations to the Class of 2019! Be sure to visit the commencement website to see additional photos and videos!… Continue reading »
Putting Theory into Practice
When Jaya Alagar ’22 arrived at Williams last fall, she planned to study chemistry and art history. On a whim she applied for an internship at the Zilkha Center for Environmental Initiatives and was placed on a project about construction materials to be used in a… Continue reading »
A Life-Changing Incident and What Comes After
Hank Montalbano ’10 knew long before graduation that he would serve in the military after college. “As early as freshman year, when I took a political science class about the post-9/11 world, I realized I wanted to follow a different path,” he says. “But I also wanted to understand who… Continue reading »