Bringing FamKeepa to Life

After coming in second place in the Williams College Business Plan Competition last semester, Tafara Makaza ’20 (above, left) and Sean Ninsing ’19 (right) spent the summer at Lever, a North Adams-based nonprofit that seeks to increase economic development in the region by recruiting, developing and supporting local entrepreneurs and… Continue reading »

Ending Dengue Fever

The summer before her senior year at Williams, Leah Katzelnick ’10 was in Nicaragua, studying the complex relationship between international aid workers and the communities they serve, when she contracted dengue fever. Today she is one of a handful of researchers working to find an effective vaccine for the mosquito-borne illness. Continue reading »