Danielle Deane-Ryan ’97 Delivers Earth Week Keynote Address on Environmental Justice

PICTURED, LEFT TO RIGHT: Log Lunch speaker Marianne Walsh and AWSC Community Engagement Fellow Kristen Kibblehouse smile at the camera. On April 22, Marianne Walsh of the Atlantic White Shark Conservancy (AWSC) spoke to the Log Lunch community about the growing number of white sharks in New England’s… Continue reading »
Pictured, left to right: Williams Emeritus Professor of Geosciences David Dethier, and Log Lunch lecturer Stephanie Boyd smile at the camera. Stephanie Boyd, the founding director of the Zilkha Center for Environmental Initiatives, returned to the College on April 15 to present “Let’s Talk Turf: The Environmental and Health… Continue reading »
Pictured: Log Lunch speaker Sharon Lewis smiles at the camera. For the first Log Lunch after spring break, the Williams community gathered to hear from Sharon Lewis, Executive Director of the Connecticut Coalition for Environmental Justice (CCEJ). In addition to leading the CCEJ, Sharon chairs the CT Zero Waste… Continue reading »
Pictured: Log Lunch lecturer Allison Gill smiles at the camera. March 11 marked biology professor Allison Gill’s first Log Lunch lecture to a packed room of students and faculty, who turned out en masse for her talk “Afterlife of Leaves: Effects of Anthropogenic Nitrogen Fertilization on Plant Litter Decomposition… Continue reading »
Pictured: The lecture poster. Dr. Anthony Ryan Hatch, associate professor and Chair of the Science in Society Program at Wesleyan University, presented his talk “Fighting Metabolic Dominance: Theories and Strategies for Regime Change” on March 8 as part of the Class of 1960 lectures in Environmental Studies. Hatch offered his… Continue reading »
Pictured: Log Lunch lecturer Dr. Tanja Srebotnjak smiles at the camera. On March 4, the Log Lunch community gathered to learn about the future of sustainability at Williams from Dr. Tanja Srebotnjak, director of the Zilkha Center for Environmental Initiatives at Williams. After a long career in… Continue reading »
Pictured, left to right: Log Lunch lecturer Jake Zieminski and local beef farmer Averill Cook smile at the camera. On Friday, February 18, the Log Lunch community reunited for their first full, delicious meal together after a January Covid-19 related-hiatus. Over a meal of beet and kale salad, flatbreads,… Continue reading »
Pictured, from left to right: Kate Desormeau and Mohammed Memfis on the lecture poster. The first 1960s Scholars seminar and lecture of the spring semester kicked off on February 15 with a talk by Williams alumni Kate Desormeau ‘02 and Mohammed Memfis ‘21. Entitled “Arguing for the Future: Case… Continue reading »
Pictured, left to right: Keenan Chenail, member of the Williams Strategic Planning group; Tamar Warburg, guest presenter and Director of Sustainability at Sasaki; Dorothy MacAusland ’12, Sasaki-Williams campus planning team member; Sarah Gardner, Associate Director of the Center for Environmental Studies. The first Log Lunch of the… Continue reading »
Megamenu Social