As part of the ongoing World War I Centennial, history major Sophie Wunderlich ’18 helped curate an exhibit in the Williams College Special Collections exploring the life and death of WWI veteran and Williams Class of 1905 alumnus Charles Whittlesey. As leader of the troop commonly referred to as “The… Continue reading »
By Julia Munemo On a sunny Friday in August, Schow Science Library is crammed with people. Nearly 200 students, mostly from Williams and some from other colleges, are presenting their findings from a summer spent conducting in-depth research. The college’s Summer Science Research Program always ends this way, with… Continue reading »
With a $10 million NSF grant, Cathryn Manduca '80 is working to infuse undergraduate curricula with a better understanding of the planet. Continue reading »
With a $10 million NSF grant, Cathryn Manduca '80 is working to infuse undergraduate curricula with a better understanding of the planet. Continue reading »
The little brown bat native to this region could be extinct by 2030. That’s a possibility mathematician Julie Blackwood and her thesis student, David Stevens ’14, hope to help prevent. Blackwood, an assistant professor in her first year at Williams, is an applied mathematician whose models help biologists study the… Continue reading »
Nearly 200 Williams students participate in what is arguably one of the largest summer science undergraduate research programs at a liberal arts college. Continue reading »
Frank Pagliaro ’14 and history professor Alexandra Garbarini are developing a digital archive of images to illustrate history. Continue reading »
Solar physicists have known for more than a century that the surface temperature of the Sun is between 5,000 and 6,000 degrees K, but what they are less sure about is why the temperature of the Sun’s atmosphere, known as the corona, is so much hotter—millions of degrees hotter, in… Continue reading »
In a corner of his office, Steven Swoap, professor and chair of biology, has a stool with two dancing mice drawn on it. While the pair more closely resemble Beatrix Potter characters than actual rodents, Swoap and his thesis students Rebecca Maher, Uttara Partap, and Christine Schindler have a strictly… Continue reading »
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