The Show Goes On

“For most students, music is a source of escape from the stress of pandemic life on campus.” So says Ed Gollin, chair and professor of music, whose department, like many in the performing and visual arts, found creative ways to connect students with audiences at a time when venues were… Continue reading »

Understanding Anxiety

Psychotherapist Lynn Gerwig Lyons ’87 has been in private practice for 28 years, specializing in the treatment of anxiety disorders in children and families. An author and public speaker, she discusses with her audiences the subject of anxiety, its role in families and the need for a preventive approach. Lyons… Continue reading »

One Issue at a Time

As a Williams sophomore, Fred Nathan Jr. ’83 learned a lesson that to this day guides his work as founder and executive director of the nonpartisan think tank Think New Mexico. That lesson: Focus on one issue at a time. It was the early 1980s, and Williams faculty were deciding… Continue reading »

Adopt-An-Eph

The Christmas Kathy Sharpe Jones ’79 spent deployed on a remote Iraqi outpost, both she and her children back home received several packages of presents in the mail. The boxes came from Stewart Menking ’79 and other members of their class, who learned that she was serving near the front… Continue reading »

Biggest Little Challenge 2018

Tweets are flying between Williams and Amherst as the two schools head the into their seventh annual Biggest Little Challenge. During the challenge—Nov. 2-Nov. 12—alumni from the 15 youngest classes of each college go toe-to-toe in a friendly philanthropic throw-down. The school with the greatest number… Continue reading »

Breaking the 4th Wall

Multidisciplinary artist Nancy Baker Cahill ’92 recently launched an augmented reality (AR) app called 4th Wall that allows users to experience her work anywhere in the world. After downloading her drawings to an iPhone, users can place them as a complement to the scene they’re standing in, walk around inside… Continue reading »

Serious Entertainment

If you asked Cynthia Sharpe ’94 on her graduation day where she would be 24 years later, she never would have guessed the answer: an executive at a major themed-entertainment design and production agency. Today, Sharpe makes museums and theme parks, designing experiences for millions of people to wander through… Continue reading »

Shifts in the Supreme Court

When U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony M. Kennedy announced in late June his intention to retire later this summer, the news sparked a flurry of reaction across the political spectrum. Justin Crowe ’03, associate professor of political science and author of Building the Judiciary: Law, Courts and the Politics of… Continue reading »

A Complicated History

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 »