By Anna Bruce ‘21 On Thursday April 22, the Center for Environmental Studies welcomed Judith Enck for an Earth Day address entitled “Moving Beyond Plastics: The Environmental Justice Issue of Our Time.” Enck is a former EPA Regional Administrator, a visiting professor at Bennington College, and the President of Beyond… Continue reading »
BY DANNY JIN The Berkshire Eagle Estimates have found up to one-half of municipal solid waste to be compostable, and a composting pilot program for Williamstown seeks to divert waste from landfills and incinerators. EAGLE FILE PHOTO WILLIAMSTOWN — With Massachusetts’ landfills filling… Continue reading »
By Anna Bruce ’21 On Tuesday April 13, the Center for Environmental Studies welcomed Michelle Nijhuis for a Class of 1966 Zoom lecture entitled “Finding Hope in Conservation History.” Nijhuis is the author of the new book Beloved Beasts: Fighting for Life in an Age of Extinction. A project editor… Continue reading »
Crystal Ma ’21 has been awarded a prestigious Thomas J. Watson Fellowship, joining a cohort of more than 40 students from 22 states and 8 countries, each of whom will pursue independent exploration around the globe in 2021-2022. An art and biology major from Redmond, Wash., Ma shares… Continue reading »
Florida government officials may face accountability after years of environmental injustice and contamination in Tallevast thanks to the work of Ruby Bagwyn ’23, Professor of Africana Studies James Manigault-Bryant, and Assistant Professor of Geosciences José Constantine. Bagwyn, Manigault-Bryant, and Constantine co-wrote an essay for Boston Review titled “Poisoning Tallevast” demonstrating how… Continue reading »
by Anna Bruce ’21 On Tuesday, March 9 the Center for Environmental Studies welcomed Lindi von Mutius ’03 for a Zoom lecture entitled “How Parks Can Undo Systemic Racism.” Von Mutius attended Williams where she was a Mellon Fellow and earned a B.A. in History with a concentration… Continue reading »
March 6, 2020 In the poem “ca’line’s prayer,” Lucille Clifton marks the progression of Black generational memory through the metaphor of drought, narrating a female ancestor’s voyage from Dahomey to the plantations of the United States South, reconfigured here as a “desert country.” The 1969 publication of “ca’line’s prayer”… Continue reading »
By Stephen DravisiBerkshires Staff 04:00AM / Friday, December 18, 2020Print Story | Email Story WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The town’s diversity committee Monday got a lesson in Williamstown’s racist history and some advice on actions that could address structural inequity. Williams College seniors Kate Orringer and Morgan Dauk appeared… Continue reading »
By Anna Bruce ‘21 On November 17 2020, the Center for Environmental Studies welcomed Maxine Burkett ’98 for a Class of 1960 Scholars Program Zoom lecture entitled: “First Do No Harm: Climate Migrations, Reparations, and the Guarantee of Non-Repetition.” Burkett is a Professor of Law at the William S. Continue reading »
November 19, 2020 By Julia Munemo The Global Ocean, taught this semester by the five faculty members who constitute the Williams-Mystic program, is among several new courses introducing Williams students to the interdisciplinarity of the sea. Based in Mystic, Conn., the program generally draws students from colleges across… Continue reading »
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