Engage with williams

• READ Take My Hand, the current Purple Prose Book Club selection, and mark your calendar for the online event with author Dolen Perkins-Valdez on Feb. 29 at 6 p.m. ET.
• SEE photos from the gathering welcoming 2023.5 into the Society of Alumni
• GIVE a year-end gift to the Alumni Fund. (It's particularly easy to venmo @williams-college or use paypal!)
  

IN CASE you missed it

• BELIEVE that nuance is still possible in an angry, polarized world after reading the last Alumni Career Commentary of the year, written by Dr. Jude Dumfeh ’04.
• LEARN about plans for the new WCMA building in this recorded talk by Florian Idenburg, co-founder of SO-IL, the architecture firm selected to design and build WCMA’s new home in Williamstown. The lecture was part of the annual Plonsker Lecture series. 
  

Meet Alumni Makers 

Alumni in the News

• Samuel Thorpe ’22 is a winner of the highly selective 2024 Marshall Scholarship and plans to pursue an M.A. in political economy at the University of Manchester and a M.Sc. in econometrics and mathematical economics at the London School of Economics.
  
• Jon Earle '09 converted recordings of live conversations with distinguished alumni at The Williams Club of New York into a podcast series. Over the past several years, Williams Club Director Dale Riehl '72 hosted conversations with Anouk Dey '09, Katherine Krieg '08, Hal Steinbrenner '91, John Walcott '71, Adena Friedman '91, Rand Jerris '91, Dylan Dethier '14, Matt Ellis '03 and Charles Dew '58.  
  
• Leroy Lindsay ’07, who led the team of rehabilitation specialists that cared for fashion designer Tremaine Emory after a dire vascular event, is described by GQ Magazine as “a Black doctor in a field underpopulated by Black men—who make up only 3 percent of the doctors in America.”
• Maxine Lyle ’00 chats with The Berkshire Eagle about her new production, Step Show: The Musical, a coming-of-age story set at a fictional historically Black college that she developed over four residencies at MASS MoCA.

Catch up with fellow alumni in the most recent edition of Williams People available online.

News from the college

Williams Magazine Is Here!

• Read stories from students about how the All-Grant Financial Aid Program is shaping their Williams experiences.
• Dive deep into WCMA’s first-ever assessment of its entire 15,000-object collection (above) in preparation for its move to a new building.
• Learn the lessons in teaching that coaches and professors are sharing with each other from Matt Carter, Ethan Barron, Marion Min-Barron, Kris Herman, Sara LaLumia, and Meghan Gillis.  
• And so much more.

Faculty in Focus 

• In the London Review of Books, Associate Professor of History Alexander Bevilacqua sheds light on two new publications that examine the different ways in which early European visitors to the Americas and Indigenous Americans forged and viewed their relationships with wild animals.
• Soledad Fox Maura, Williams’ V-Nee Yeh ’81 Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature, appears in a new documentary about the subject of her recently reissued biography—the late Jorge Semprún, the European author, politician and Buchenwald survivor.
• In an interview with WalletHub, Don Kjelleren, director of the ’68 Center for Career Exploration, says the current job increases, rising wages, and labor shortages in certains markets are expected to continue.

Student Highlights

williams in photos

Follow us on Threads!