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We hope you’ve enjoyed getting to know the Williams community over the last several weeks—from our research opportunities and tutorials to student groups and vast alumni network.
You have a big decision ahead of you, and we want to help! Members of the Williams community are eager to answer all your questions, big and small.
Faculty Spotlight
Does seeing images of Taylor Swift actually affect people’s feelings about the NFL? Psychology professor Steven Fein and students in his Experimentation and Statistics class conducted research to try to answer this question, as well as to identify which kinds of people are the most negatively affected by her appearances.
Student Spotlight
Hikaru Hayakawa ’24 is vice president and deputy executive director of Climate Cardinals, a nonprofit that makes scientific literature more accessible to non-English speakersand which recently became one of the first-ever youth-led organizations supported by Google’s philanthropic arm, Google.org. Hikarua says he hopes the recognition “encourages others to redirect more resources towards empowering the next generation of environmental leaders.”
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A Virtual Visit to Williams
We encourage you to take a closer look at campus and some of our students’ favorite spots in this virtual tour—all in under 10 minutes!
Save the Date
We’d love to congratulate you in person if you can make it to campus!
Planning a visit?
We welcome you anytime! Campus tours and info sessions are on hiatus for a few weeks, but please reach out if you plan to come to campus!
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Information for Families
Visit our Williams in Video page to take virtual tours, learn about student life, and more.
We want to make sure you get all your questions answered as the May 15 deadline approaches, so please reach out.
Top Notch: Harvard, Columbia & Yale are the most frequently attended graduate programs among Williams alumni.
This week, Williams hosted a Humanities Boot Camp in collaboration with the Warrior-Scholar Project (WSP). Each summer, WSP organizes academic intensive boot camps on college and university campuses around the country to serve veterans and military service members entering higher education. Scholars participating in the Humanities Boot Camp on our campus attended daily seminars taught by Williams faculty, engaged in academic skill-building, and connected with WSP boot camp alumni. This ongoing partnership with WSP continues to be an important resource for Williams to support student veterans.
Head to the link in out bio to learn more about admission to Williams for service member and veteran applicants 🔗
#studentvetsbelonghere
This year, the Williams community celebrated the reopening of The Davis Center! The DC is a central hub for gatherings and programs to support historically underrepresented communities on campus. Since its official reopening in April, students, staff, faculty, and alumni have taken advantage of the DC as a multi-use presentation, performance, and teaching space.
Check out the link on in our bio to read the latest Williams Magazine piece about the reimagined Davis Center 🔗
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Commencement was once week ago and we are still celebrating the Class of 2024. We could not be more excited and proud of these amazing students. Here are some of our favorite shots of their special day 📸
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Summer has arrived at Williams! As we continue to celebrate the Class of 2024 and highlight the upcoming Alumni Reunions, we’ll also shine a light on the experiences of students staying on campus this summer.
Whether conducting research or working on-campus jobs, a couple hundred Williams students stay on campus and call Williamstown home each summer. With #berkshiresummer, we’ll show you what our students get up to and how they take advantage of this special time of the year on campus and in our surrounding Berkshire County communities ☀️
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Our beloved mascot, Ephelia, is always a welcome sight at campus gatherings every semester. Here`s a look at Ephelia through the years with a major throwback at the end 📸
With summer right around the corner, many current students will dedicate the next couple of months to conducting research across a variety of fields and disciplines. Becky Walker ‘27 shares about getting involved in research early in her Williams career:
“I work with Professor Godlonton on the Ungated Research Project, which provides access to all publicly available working papers for research published in leading economic journals in one location along with AI-generated non-technical summaries of the findings of these papers. After taking a class with Professor Godlonton in the fall, I was incredibly inspired by her and interested in pursuing more opportunities in economics, inside and outside of the classroom. I got involved with the project this semester after applying to do research this summer with the Economics department and she emailed me to see if I wanted to join a group of students already working on the project during the spring semester. Despite my limited economic background, I am incredibly grateful to be able to engage in this very meaningful work.”
Check out #researchatwilliams throughout this spring and summer to learn about the amazing projects that current students are working on.
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