May 8, 2015: The National Science Foundation (NSF) has announced the award of research fellowships to 9 Williams College students and alumni and honorable mentions to 12. The fellowships support graduate study in the sciences. The Williams fellowship recipients are Chelsey Barrios ’12, who studies psychology at the University of… Continue reading »
April 15, 2015: Eiko Maruko Siniawer ’97, chair and associate professor of history at Williams College, has received a fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS). Siniawer will receive support from the ACLS for her book project “Affluence of the Heart: Waste in Postwar Japan.” This research examines… Continue reading »
April 22, 2015: Williams College recently celebrated the completion of the Class of 1966 Environmental Center with a public lecture by William Moomaw ’59 on April 17, and a dedication of the facility on April 18. The restoration and expansion of the historic building was designed with the goal of meeting… Continue reading »
March 31, 2015: Williams faculty may be eligible to apply for a fellowship of up to three months at the Institute of Advanced Study at Durham University. The IAS is a leading interdisciplinary research institute, and its fellowship theme for 2016/17 is “Scale.” For full details, see https://www.dur.ac.uk/ias/fellowships/iasfellowship/. Questions about… Continue reading »
March 11, 2015: The U.S. Department of Labor’s Bureau of International Affairs has awarded Jessica Leight, assistant professor of economics at Williams College, a $1.3 million grant to evaluate a girls’ education program in Rajasthan, India. The grant is one of seven awarded by the bureau to strengthen oversight and… Continue reading »
Media contact: Noelle Lemoine, communications assistant; tele: (413) 597-4277; email: Noelle.Lemoine@williams.edu WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass., September 29, 2014—The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded Williams College physics professor Protik Majumder a 3-year, $347,000 grant to continue his precise spectroscopic studies of atoms aimed ultimately at testing the Standard Model of particle physics. Continue reading »
Media contact: Noelle Lemoine, communications assistant; tele: (413) 597-4277; email: Noelle.Lemoine@williams.edu WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass., September 22, 2014—The National Science Foundation has awarded Williams College computer science professor Stephen Freund a four-year, $252,000 grant to study scalability-oriented optimization. “Multicore CPUs and multiprocessors offer the promise of continued software performance improvements as the… Continue reading »
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass., August 5, 2014—The National Science Foundation has awarded Williams College geosciences professor Rónadh Cox $75,000 to study coastal erosion caused by severe storms that took place in western Europe between December 2013 and February 2014. Cox is uniquely situated to study the effects of last winter’s storms. Since… Continue reading »
Media contact: Noelle Lemoine, communications assistant; tele: (413) 597-4277; email: Noelle.Lemoine@williams.edu WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass., July 31, 2014—The National Science Foundation has awarded Williams College computer science professor Stephen Freund a three-year, $198,993 grant to study techniques for automatically identifying defects in multithreaded software. Multithreaded programs are those capable of executing more… Continue reading »
Media contact: Noelle Lemoine, communications assistant; tele: (413) 597-4277; email: Noelle.Lemoine@williams.edu WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass., July 28, 2014—Williams College Professor of Mathematics Satyan Devadoss has received the 2014 Northeastern Section Award for Distinguished College or University Teaching of Mathematics, bestowed by the Mathematical Association of America. Devadoss specializes in algebraic and combinatorial… Continue reading »