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The College has implemented a pause on certifying National Science Foundation (NSF) and National Institutes of Health (NIH) ...
A student was arrested on campus after engaging in pro-Palestine protest acts last Sunday, before the day’s commencement ...
Similar to last year, prospective first-years will not be able to visit in person this spring. Instead, Virtual Previews will be held on April 16 and 17. (Ella Marx/The Williams Record) On March 25, ...
North Adams’ Houghton Mansion holds a variety of creepy sights, including an abandoned Freemason meeting room, an old barber chair and dusty Victorian bedrooms. (Irene Loewenson / The Williams Record) ...
Follies showgirls in their 1940s costumes at London National Theatre. (Photo courtesy of the Clark Art Institute.) Despite being a self-proclaimed Stephen Sondheim ’50 aficionado, I must admit that ...
Nathan Sleeper ’95 is the CEO of private equity firm Clayton, Dubilier & Rice (CD&R), a role he stepped into in 2020. In 2018, CD&R acquired PowerTeam Services, LLC, a holding company in the natural ...
The College has eliminated the supplemental essay from its application and formed the Working Group on Admissions Policies and Practices. These changes come in response to the Supreme Court’s decision ...
The story of the College’s underground fraternities began in the early morning of May 6, 1912, when successful Boston lawyer Olcott Osborn Partridge, Class of 1894, died by suicide. As a student, he ...
Cohen received significant backlash online for voicing her opposition to MIT’s decision to invite Abbot to speak at the university. (Photo courtesy of Phoebe Cohen.) Professor and Chair of Geosciences ...
The opinions presented here are those of the author and are not representative of the Honor and Discipline Committee nor the Ad Hoc Committee on Academic Integrity. This piece points out systemic ...
If you’re a Williams College student reading this article, Lucy Calkins ’73 probably taught you how to do so. Maybe you memorized sight words. Maybe you learned to read through “just right” books for ...
In the fall of 1993, an eighth of the student body embarked on a year-long academic journey: 250 students had enrolled in ARTH 101-102, the College’s introductory Western art history course. Art ...