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Ground-Breaking Geneticist Speaking at Williams 230th Commencement| 04:21PM / Saturday, April 20, 2019 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Mary-Claire King, an award-winning geneticist at the University of Washington who first discovered the breast and ovarian cancer gene, will be the principal speaker at Williams College's 230th commencement exercises on Sunday, June 2. The day before, Ophelia Dahl, a British-American social justice and health care advocate, will be the baccalaureate speaker. Both will receive honorary degrees at commencement from President Maud S. Mandel, as will president of Berklee College of Music Roger H. Brown; founder and co-Chairman of Charlesbank Capital Partners and Chairman of the Williams Board of Trustees Michael Eisenson, class of 1977; and Grammy 0 Comments
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Six Williams College Seniors Win Fellowships to Study at Cambridge and Oxford| 10:32AM / Friday, April 19, 2019 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Williams College has announced the winners of the Dr. Herchel Smith Fellowship for graduate study at Cambridge University's Emmanuel College and the Donovan-Moody Fellowship for graduate study at Exeter College at Oxford University.
The five seniors awarded the Herchel Smith Fellowship are Roxanne Corbeil, Mary Kate Guma, Erin Hanson, Elizabeth Hibbard, and Zachary Ottati. Drew Fishman was awarded the Donovan-Moody Fellowship.
Corbeil, an economics and Arabic studies major from Oceanside, Calif., will pursue a Ph.D. in development studies. With an interest in development in the Arab world, she plans to focus her studies on the mechanics of poverty and its
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Williams College Professor Receives 2019 ACLS Susan McClary and Robert Walser Fellowship| 10:07AM / Friday, April 19, 2019 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The American Council of Learned Societies has named W. Anthony Sheppard, the Marylin and Arthur Levitt professor of music at Williams College, a 2019 Susan McClary and Robert Walser Fellow.
The highly competitive fellowship supports awardees "for their potential to make an original and significant contribution to knowledge."
The 2019 ACLS Fellowship awards range from $40,000 to $70,000, depending on the scholar's career stage, and support six to 12 months of full-time research and writing. This year, 81 fellows, who hail from more than 60 colleges and universities, were selected by their peers from more than 1,100 applicants.
The ACLS Fellows
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MCLA Picks Winners of Third Entrepreneurship ChallengeBy Tammy Daniels, iBerkshires Staff
02:33AM / Thursday, April 18, 2019 | |
The Whet Towel was the winning idea in this year's challenge. NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — There were three finalists for the third annual Innovation and Entrepreneurial Challenge on Wednesday night. They were different yet had one thing in common: being eco-friendly or at least all-natural. But it was the pitch about making disposal razors last longer that stood out for the judges and deemed worthy of the $10,000 prize. Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts students Nicholas Strezynski and Owen Fitzgerald came up with towel that includes a denim strop designed to extend the life of disposable razors. "For years, I've been using 0 Comments
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Williams College Geosciences Professor Wins NSF Grant| 11:18AM / Wednesday, April 17, 2019 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Phoebe Cohen, associate professor of geosciences at Williams College, has been awarded a prestigious grant from the National Science Foundation.
The two-year grant totaling $79,585 will support Cohen's research about the co-evolution of life and environments throughout earth's history.
Cohen's research project, titled "Using Organic Carbon Isotopes of Single Microfossils to Illuminate Proterozoic Eukaryotic Ecosystems," will explore the relationships between biology and the rise of oxygen in the earth’s atmosphere. Working in collaboration with faculty at Syracuse University and the University of California, Santa Barbara —
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BCC Suspends Nursing Program For One YearStaff Reports,
10:18AM / Wednesday, April 17, 2019 | |
 PITTSFIELD, Mass. — Berkshire Community College is suspending its nursing program for a year. The decision is another blow — hopefully a short-term one — to nursing education in the region following the impending closure of Southern Vermont College. The associate's degree program will go on hiatus for first-year students in 2019 to address lingering issues and begin re-enrollment of new students in fall 2020. "We have a 50-year history of graduating excellent practitioners and this brief pause allows us to address specific areas of focus that have been highlighted by our accrediting and licensing bodies," said college President Ellen Kennedy in 1 Comment
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College Notes: April & May 2019| 01:10PM / Tuesday, April 16, 2019 | |
Phyllis Graber Jensen/Bates College Grace Ellrodt of Lenox, a junior atin Lewiston, Maine, recently presented the results of her environmental studies capstone project titled "Insulating Window Insert Interventions in Energy Injustice: Incentives, Barriers, & Strategies." Ellrodt, the daughter of Dr. and Ms. Anthony G. Ellrodt and a 2016 graduate of Lenox Memorial High School, worked with two other students, Newell Woodworth of Lambertville, N.J., and Griff Golden of Riverside, Conn., on the project in collaboration with Window Dressers, a nonprofit working to help insulate homes. As part of their environmental studies major, Ellrodt, 0 Comments
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Wahconah & Mount Greylock to Match Wits on WGBY| 02:48PM / Monday, April 15, 2019 | |
 WESTFIELD, MASS. — Two Berkshire high school teams will match wits next weekend in a quiz show competition broadcast on public television. The two teams, Wahconah Regional High School and Mount Greylock Regional School, will spar on "As Schools Match Wits," airing on WGBY public television Saturday, April 20, at 7 p.m., rebroadcast Sunday, April 21 at 10:30 a.m. and available for subsequent online streaming. The show pits teams of western New England high schoolers against each other in a fun, but competitive game of academic performance. The competition is open to both public and private high schools throughout western New England. Each season, up to 50 0 Comments
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Mount Greylock Committee at Standstill on Multipurpose BuildingBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
03:59AM / Monday, April 15, 2019 | |
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Mount Greylock School Committee for the second straight meeting failed to reach a decision on whether to accept the low bid to build a multipurpose building on the campus of the middle-high school. After several rounds of voting on various approaches to the proposed $2.8 million project Thursday night, the committee ended up hopelessly deadlocked at the end of a 5 1/2 hour meeting that included a 90-minute executive session to discuss the contracts of non-union personnel, specifically the district's superintendent and business manager positions. The two poles of the building debate were, fittingly, seated at opposite ends 3 Comments
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BCC's Coordinator of Multicultural Center Recognized as 2019 Latina Leader| 12:25PM / Wednesday, April 10, 2019 | |
 PITTSFIELD, Mass. — Berkshire Community College's coordinator of the Multicultural Center, Eleanore Velez, has been recognized by Amplify Latinx as a 2019 Latina Leader.
Amplify Latinx is a Boston-based, non-partisan, collaborative movement whose mission is to build Latinx economic and political power by significantly increasing Latinx civic engagement and representation in leadership position across sectors.
In celebration of Women's History Month, Amplify Latinx launched a campaign to identify 11 outstanding Latina leaders who exemplify the best in their professions and who are lifting others as they climb. Amplify Latinx received 45 nominations from corporate, civic,
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