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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
Claudia Reyes ’18 came to Williams to study math. She loved the subject in high school and heard wonderful things about the department. But when she got here, she started to doubt herself—and her skills. “I felt lost in my math classes freshman year,” she says. “I was one of… Continue reading »
In 2012, sisters Katie Kerr Clarke ’87 and Kendra Kerr Olvany ’82 opened the welcome gates to a club no one wants to join. They have been building community among those affected by breast cancer ever since. “The Licorice Project embraces and empowers women by connecting breast cancer patients and… Continue reading »
What does it take for a being to have moral standing in the universe? That’s the question philosophy professor Joe Cruz ’91 posed to his students on the first day of his course, Philosophy of Animals. As a supplement to the course, the Williams College Museum of… Continue reading »
In a new series of film and digital photography, Hudson Bohr ’18 documents his own life and those of close queer friends between Williamstown and New York. Bohr grew up with his father in rural Tiros, Brazil. He knew from a young age that he was gay, “but in deeply… Continue reading »
Izzy Lowell ’02 didn’t set out to establish the only medical clinic in the southeast that exclusively treats transgender patients. She didn’t even set out to become a doctor. An English and art history major in college, she went to medical school only after working in the art world for… Continue reading »
Click on the image above to visit a musical website created by Diego Gonzalez ’18. How is the internet shaping music today? That’s the question music professor Zachary Wadsworth explored with his students in his new course, Music and the Internet. “While it has granted listeners access to broad… Continue reading »
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