Pictured: Mustafa Saifuddin (left) with Professor Allison Gill at The Log Students, faculty, and community members gathered for Friday Log Lunch on September 23 to hear from Mustafa Saifuddin. Williams biology Professor Allison Gill and Saifuddin attended the same graduate program and have kept in touch ever since. Gill… Continue reading »
Pictured: Students enjoy the first log lunch meal of the semester. On September 16th, students, faculty, and community members came together to enjoy the first Log Lunch of the year! Over 150 people lined up down Spring Street, hoping to enjoy a delicious meal of fajita veggies, black beans,… Continue reading »
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Pictured: Log Lunch attendees discuss the questions prompted by speaker Nicolas Howe. The final Log Lunch of the 2021-2022 academic year was closed out by Professor Nicolas Howe, Director of the Center for Environmental Studies (CES), on May 6. In anticipation of the department’s self-study, which will… Continue reading »
Pictured: Log Lunch lecturer Paul Bierman, left; daughter Marika Massey-Bierman ’22, right. On April 29, Paul Bierman ‘85, Professor of Environment and Natural Resources at the University of Vermont, delivered the penultimate Log Lunch talk “Climate Change & Greenland: Environmental Impacts of the Cold War.” Hoping to… Continue reading »
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 on April 8, 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… 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: 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, 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 »
Left to right: Quincy Powers ’22, Lyza Berg ‘21.5, and Huijun Huang ’22 smile for the camera after their Log Lunch presentation. A trio of Environmental Planning Workshop students presented “The Quest for (B)eph: Sourcing Beef from Local Farms” on December 10 at Log Lunch. The presentation culminated their… Continue reading »
Pictured, from left to right: Log Lunch lecturer Don Campbell ’84 and Sarah Gardner, Associate Director and Lecturer in Environmental Studies, smile at the camera. On December 3, the Log Lunch community had the pleasure of hearing from Don Campbell ‘84, the Southwest Regional Director of the… Continue reading »
Pictured: Log Lunch lecturer Chris Sherman ’07 smiles at the camera. Pictured: The Log Lunch Audience enjoys their meal while listening to speaker Chris Sherman. On November 19, Williams alum Chris Sherman ‘07 joined current Williams students and faculty at Log Lunch to discuss his… Continue reading »
Pictured: Log Lunch lecturer Kris Hansen and daughter Siri Bohacek ’22 smile at the camera outside The Log. Pictured: Kris Hansen gives her lecture. On November 12, Log Lunch welcomed Kris Hansen ‘91, an atmospheric chemist, proud Williams alum, and parent of Siri Bohacek ‘22. As a former… Continue reading »
Pictured, from left to right: Log Lunch lecturer Don Zasada smiles at the camera. On November 5, the Log Lunch community had the pleasure of hearing from Don Zasada, owner of Williamstown’s Caretaker Farm. As one of the first Community Supported Agriculture programs in the nation, Caretaker… Continue reading »
Pictured: Log Lunch lecturer Gwendolyn VanSant smiles at the camera outside The Log. On Friday, October 29, the last Log Lunch of the month welcomed speaker Gwendolyn VanSant, the CEO and Founding Executive Director of Multicultural BRIDGE (Berkshire Resources for Integration of Diverse Groups Through Education), a non-profit… Continue reading »
Pictured, from left to right: Sarah Gardner, Associate Director and Lecturer in Environmental Studies, and Log Lunch lecturer Ashley Randle smile at the camera. On October 22, the Log Lunch community had the privilege of hearing from Ashley Sears Randle, Deputy Commissioner for the Massachusetts Department of Agricultural Resources… Continue reading »
Pictured, from left to right: Log Lunch speakers Abigail Matheny ’22, Chander Payne ’24 stand in front of the camera for a photo. Williams College students Abigail “Abby” Matheny ‘22 and Chander Payne ‘24 presented their summer 2021 projects to the Log Lunch audience on October 15,… Continue reading »
Pictured: Maxine Ng ’22 (left) and Sarah Brusini ’23 (right) pose for the camera. On October 8, the Log Lunch community was lucky enough to hear about the summer adventures of Sarah Brusini ‘23 and Maxine Ng ‘22, both of whom received CES summer grants. Pictured:… Continue reading »
Pictured: Professor Teresa Mares smiles at the camera. On September 24, University of Vermont professor Teresa Mares gave a lecture entitled “A Renewed Call for Social Sustainability: Putting Worker Justice at the Center of Sustainable Food Systems” at Log Lunch. Discussing vulnerabilities in the American food system and using… 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 »
The topics of community, small farms, fishermen, and justice concluded the month’s log lunches. Niaz Dorry is the coordinating director of Northwest Atlantic Marine Alliance and National Family Farm Coalition. She began her talk by explaining to everyone how she arrived to Williamstown from Gloucester, Massachusetts:… Continue reading »
This week’s Log Lunch talk, given by Dr. Taza Schaming, was about the relationship between Clark’s nutcrackers and whitebark pine in the Northern Rockies. Whitebark pine is a high-elevation tree that is a keystone species in its mountain habitat. It fulfills many important ecological roles, including maintaining snowpack and… Continue reading »