The Great American Solar Eclipse, a total solar eclipse that will sweep across the U.S. in August 2017, is already grabbing the attention of scientists like Williams College Professor of Astronomy Jay Pasachoff.
Williams College Prof. Jessica Chapman awarded $240,000 grant to pursue anthropological training to continue her research on the economic and cultural influence of Kenya's running industry.
Williams College Prof. Jay Pasachoff has received a National Geographic Society grant for his expedition to Salem, Oregon to view a total solar eclipse in 2017.
The planet Mercury will cross the face of the Sun on Monday, May 9, and Williams College professor Jay Pasachoff will be observing it from the Big Bear Solar Observatory in California. “At the 1999 transit of Mercury,” Pasachoff reports, “Glenn Schneider of the University of Arizona and I used spacecraft observations to show in detail how the merger of Mercury’s edge and the Sun’s edge appears. The dark silhouette of Mercury interacts with the unsharp edge of the Sun to give optical effects that hundreds of years ago for a similar event with Venus were confused with the discovery of Venus’s atmosphere.”
Bryan Stevenson, founder of the Equal Justice Initiative, will be the commencement speaker on June 5 at Williams. Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Kolbert will speak at baccalaureate on June 4.
Williams College's Center for Development Economics will host a global poverty conference featuring Nobel Laureate Angus Deaton and other noted economists April 7-8.
A popular and well-used building on the Williams College campus will attempt to live for one year with only the electricity it can generate on its own and the water it can recycle on-site. This endeavor will earn it a Living Building Challenge certification, the highest environmental performance standard for a building.
Williams College professor Matt Carter has received a three-year $361,539 NIH grant to conduct research into how the brain controls food intake.
Williams College professor Ronadh Cox has received a grant from the NSF to continue her work studying coastal erosion by storm waves. Cox has been studying this issue since 2008 along the coast of Ireland.
Williams College responds to call for leadership on climate change with ambitious plan to reduce carbon emissions, invest in renewable energy projects and create investment options in "green" or low-carbon funds.
A joint Williams College-MIT-Lowell Observatory team observed Pluto during a rare celestial event two weeks before a NASA spacecraft got a closer look at the former planet.
Two Williams College professors have been awarded an NSF grant to study inter-species dependencies called "mutualisms." The Biology and Chemistry professors will study how different species interact with and affect one another.
The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of International Affairs has awarded a Williams College professor a grant to evaluate the effects of child labor in India.
Williams College math professor Frank Morgan is keeping an eye out for Major League hitters who veer toward the dugout on their way to first base. While at first glance this route might not seem the best way to start a sprint toward home plate, Morgan says his calculations prove it’s the fastest way around the diamond.
Eugene J. Johnson remembers taking the legendary art history course he now teaches, as a Williams College undergraduate in the fall of 1956. He went into it with zero interest in the arts. "I was dragged into it," he says. "But then I got hooked." Today, as the Amos Lawrence Professor or Art, Johnson inspires the next generation of art lovers with the modern version of that course, Aspects of Western Art (ARTH101).
As it plays out on cable television news shows and newspaper opinion pages, the question of immigration can seem like an enormous problem that appeared overnight from nowhere. Among the things Williams College Professor Scott Wong wants his students to understand is that there is much more to the conversation, and that it is has long been intricately woven into any discussion of what it means to be American.
The George Olmsted Jr., Class of 1924, Prize for Excellence in Secondary School Teaching was established in 1984 with an endowment from the estates of George Olmsted Jr. and his wife, Frances, who wanted to recognize secondary teaching excellence. The Olmsted Prizes received national attention in 2005 when Thomas L. Friedman, op-ed columnist for The New York Times, highlighted the program and the prize recipients in his column. "The best way to ensure that we have teachers who inspire their students is if we recognize and reward those who clearly have done so," he wrote.
A new program sponsored by the Office for Information Technology (OIT) at Williams College is advancing media scholarship on the Williams College campus. The initiative, Integrating Digital Literacies - or IDeaL - allows faculty to enhance current course assignments with media components to allow students to express themselves visually, and to engage with and publish their research in varied digital mediums.
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