WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass., June 29, 2005 – Williams College, in collaboration with the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, offers a two-year graduate program in preparation for careers in teaching and museums. At its 2005 Commencement Exercises, Williams College awarded 14 students master's degrees on completion of the Graduate Program in the History of Art.

Students, hometowns, and colleges and universities from which they received their undergraduate degrees are listed below:

Elizabeth Athens, of Madison, Wis., from Lawrence University

Daniel G. Cohen-McFall, of Whitingham, Vt., from Sarah Lawrence College

Bryan Jeffrey Frank, of Laguna Niguel, Calif., from Duke University

James Paul Franklin, of Woodinville, Wash., from the University of Washington

Jessica Lynn Fripp, of San Diego, Calif., from the University of California, San Diego

Mari Yoko Hara, of Oita City, Japan, from John Cabot University

Diana Kurkovsky, of Twinsburg, Ohio, from Middlebury College

Matthew Lee Levy, of Exeter, New Hampshire, from Williams College

Andrea Lynn McKeever, of Chicago, Ill., from Lake Forest College

Christine Louise Paglia, of Old Lyme, Conn., from Bowdoin College

Cara Rebecca Starke, of Potomac, Md., from Cornell University

Alexandra Svatava Suda, of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, from Princeton University

Rebecca K. Uchill, of Boston, Mass., from New York University

Viktoria Villanyi, of Budapest, Hungary, from Harvard University

In recent years, graduates of the Williams/Clark Program have pursued the doctorate at such institutions as Columbia University, Harvard University, MIT, New York University, Stanford University, University of California Berkeley, University of Chicago, University of Delaware, University of Pennsylvania, and Yale University.

Other students have chosen to spend a year or two in museum internship positions or curatorial positions. Recent Williams M.A. graduates have been awarded internships at the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Harvard University Art Museums, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Walker Art Center, and the Museum Ludwig in Cologne. Others have taken curatorial or administrative positions at such institutions as the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, The Art Institute of Chicago, the Clark Art Institute, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

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Williams College is consistently ranked one of the nation's top liberal arts colleges. The college’s 2,000 students are taught by a faculty noted for the quality of their undergraduate teaching. The achievement of academic goals includes active participation of students with faculty in research. Admission decisions are made regardless of a student’s financial ability, and the college provides grants and other assistance to meet the demonstrated needs of all who are admitted. Founded in 1793, it is the second oldest institution of higher learning in Massachusetts. The college is located in Williamstown, Mass. To visit the college on the Internet: www.williams.edu