Mary Ignatiadis ’16 (CBL Scholar) and Kelly Tellez ’17 (Sherman Fairchild researcher) sampling evidence of the Devonian-era mass extinction in the Rocky Mountains
In 2013, Williams received a three-year, $247,500 grant from the Sherman Fairchild Foundation to support student stipends for summer research in the sciences, particularly for rising sophomores and juniors. Fifteen students were supported by the Fairchild grant in 2014. Their projects ranged from the visualization of brain neurons in mice to changes in the balance of heavy metals in the local environment caused by Hurricane Irene.
In 2012, the Henry Luce Foundation awarded the college a three-year, $246,440 grant to create the Clare Boothe Luce Scholars Program. This program will support undergraduate research opportunities for 24 women majoring in astrophysics, computer science, geoscience, mathematics/statistics, and physics. The second cohort (from the Class of 2017) was chosen in March.
The National Science Foundation has been supporting the Williams SMALL program with Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) grants since 1988. Over 500 undergraduates from around the world have taken part in SMALL’s nine-week summer program in which undergraduates investigate open research problems in mathematics. Many of these participants have published papers and presented work at conferences based on their SMALL research. Many have also gone on to earn Ph.D.s in mathematics.
