Joy and rest & Celebration IN THE BICENTENNIAL

Upcoming Events 

• LEARN from author-journalist Barbara Bradley Hagerty ’81 and former Society of Alumni president Dennis O’Shea ’77 about the transformative possibilities of midlife in “Life Reimagined,”TODAY (Aug. 19) at noon EDT.
• CELEBRATE the ever-evolving story of the Society of Alumni in this special program, “Epholution: 200 Years of History, Nostalgia & Memory,” presented Sept. 23 by the Archival Committee of the SoA Bicentennial.
• ENGAGE with BiGLATA for the third in a series of panels discussing LGBTQ+ life at Williams across the decades. This Sept. 26 event will feature the experiences of alums from the ’00s and ’10s.
• READ your copy of our August-October book club selection Cleopatra: A Life, and register now for an Oct. 5 talk featuring the Pulitzer Prize-winning author Stacy Schiff ’82.
• SAVE the dates and register now for a series of interactive “Back to School” workshops taught to you by fellow alums:
  EPHS 219 “Baking & Making Grilled Honeybuns” with Geraldine Shen ’01, Sept. 19
  EPHS 203 “Knitting Stranded Colorwork” with Ashley Weeks Cart ’05, Oct. 3
  EPHS 224 “Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Indian Food but Were Afraid to Ask” with Aroop Mukharji ’09 & Auyon Mukharji ’07, Oct. 24

And, in case you missed it: 

alumni In the News

• Alice Albright '83, Biniam Gebre ’00, Kurt Rumsfeld ’85 and Amy Searight ’88 were tapped to join President Biden’s administration; their nominations went to the Senate earlier this month.
  
• Nitsan Goldstein ’15 won the $50,000 Regeneron Prize for Creative Innovation for biomedical research on the neural control of food intake.
• Medha Kirtane ’00 was named New Jersey’s History Teacher of the Year and is a finalist for National History Teacher of the Year.
• Matt Nimetz ’60 received the Prespa Dialogue Forum’s first Dispute Settlement Award in recognition of his work as a mediator between Greece and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.
• A Wall Street Journal review mentions Gordon Clapp’s ’71 star turn in the
  Peterborough Players’ presentation of Thornton Wilder’s Our Town.
• Alyssa Amos Clark ’15 set the Guinness World Record for running 95 marathons in 95 days.
• Tokyo Olympics recap: Tala Abujbara ’14, the first woman to row in the Olympics from Qatar and one of the Qatari flag bearers in the opening ceremony, placed 25th; USA Basketball, with Will Hardy ’10 on staff, took gold; Kristi Kirshe ’17 led Team USA in rugby for tries scored (four) and a sixth-place finish; and Joey Lye ’09 and Team Canada Softball earned a bronze medal.
  

News from the college

Balance and Flexibility

Faculty Awards

• Phoebe Cohen, chair and associate professor of geosciences, won a 2021 Division Award for outstanding geobiologists from the Geological Society of America (GSA) for her work reconstructing ancient organisms and ecosystems. She was recently interviewed by Nature about a controversial sponge-like fossil that some scientists say may be Earth’s earliest-known animal.
• Pamela E. Harris, math professor and faculty fellow of the Davis Center and Office of Institutional Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, was named a fellow of the IAspire Leadership Academy, which offers professional development opportunities for STEM faculty from underrepresented groups.
  

Student Stars

• Eight students from the Class of 2021 have been awarded Williams fellowships to pursue studies this fall at Cambridge and Oxford Universities.
• Ethan Richmond ’24 won a Celebrate! Maya Project fellowship to spend two weeks in residence at The Writers’ Colony at Dairy Hollow in Eureka Springs, Ark.
• Olivia White ’22 examined the sustainability of golf courses for Golf magazine and interviewed the superintendent of the nation’s only 100% organic golf course. 

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