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: Dilip la Cunha looks at the camera. On Thursday, November 11, architect and planner Dilip da Cunha joined Williams students and faculty in discussing his book “The Invention of Rivers” and his visual design platforms in a talk entitled “Nature by Design,” which reconsidered the predominant land/water… 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: A whiteboard at the entrance to Fall Fest shows a map and list of attractions. On Saturday, October 23, the Williams College Hopkins Memorial Forest put on their annual outdoor Fall Festival from 10 AM to 1 PM, drawing in hundreds of students, families, and local residents to… 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: Dr. Tiffany King looks at the camera. In her talk “Red and Black Alchemies of Flesh: Conjuring A Decolonial and Abolitionist Now,” on the evening of Thursday, October 21, Dr. Tiffany King responded to Black, Indigenous, and Marxian critiques of her work in The Black Shoals: Offshore… 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 »
Meet the new generation of Williams leaders fighting for environmental justice. By Vicki Glembocki Mohammed Memfis ’21 was working with the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) in Georgia when he arrived in rural Randolph County to fight voter suppression. A Williams freshman at the time, he quickly learned that the residents he… Continue reading »
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass., July 14, 2021—Ron Bassar, assistant professor of biology at Williams College, has been awarded a prestigious grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF). The three-year, $1.6 million dollar grant will support research aimed at understanding how temporal variation in ecological and evolutionary processes allow similar species to coexist. Continue reading »
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass., May 8, 2020—The Morris K. Udall Foundation announced the award of a $7,000 scholarship to Williams College junior Mohammed Memfis. He was one of 55 students nationwide to win the award, selected for his commitment to a career in environmental justice. Memfis, who hails from Atlanta, Ga., is… Continue reading »
Environmental Studies Thesis Presentations Passcode: 33fRBd?z Presenters: Elizabeth Bigham: “Good Healthy Fun: The Relationships Between Playgrounds and Children’s Health in New York City” Davis Collison: “Observational Network Approaches for the Co-Production of Knowledge in Support of Food Sovereignty for Indigenous Alaska Communities” Rosa Kirk Davidoff: “Beyond ‘Jobs vs. Continue reading »
BY LAURA J. MARTIN MAY 11, 202110:45 AM The National Bison Range near Ravali, Montana USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service TWEET SHARE… Continue reading »
© Getty Images BY LAURA J. MARTIN, OPINION CONTRIBUTOR — 04/26/21 05:30 PM EDT 418 THE VIEWS EXPRESSED BY CONTRIBUTORS ARE THEIR OWN AND NOT THE VIEW OF THE HILL The Biden administration has pledged to put the country on a path to net-zero greenhouse gas… Continue reading »
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 »