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With important contributions from many Williams undergraduates over recent years, we have completed a series of high-preci...

Born in Iraq, Ibrahim Kazerooni was imprisoned under Saddam Hussein's regime and eventually fled the country in fear of Ir...

In both poetry and scholarship, Kate Lilley tarries with the problematic of queer historical transmission and the constitu...

Long before the Bechdel Test codified and implicitly critiqued the failure of films to make female interaction the focal p...

Since the sequencing of the first human genome, over 30,000 disease-associated variants have been identified, the majority...

Machine learning is revolutionizing the sciences, but most existing methods require large amounts of human-generated train...

Tara Westover and Anthony Jack ’07 will discuss “What Would Equality in Education Look Like?” in a conversation mode...

Knots are familiar entities that appear at a captivating nexus of art, technology, mathematics and science. They have rece...

Dr. Gonzalves will discuss the Smithsonian Institution’s ambitious programming challenge—to present tie-based music-re...

Steven Dunn, aka Pothole (because he’s deep in these streets), is the author of two novels from Tarpaulin Sky Press—

Come learn how to visualize data using maps taught by Professor Nussbaum, a lecturer at Mount Holyoke College. In addition...

Join us as we welcome Nikki Giovanni, poet and University Distinguished Professor at Virginia Tech. Ms. Giovanni will be t...

The Faculty Colloquium Series for 2019-20 presents a lecture titled “Hyper Education: When Good Grades, Good Schools, an...

Seminar with Javier Apfeld, Ph.D., assistant professor in the biology department at Northeastern University

C. e...

Professor Isomae Jun’ichi from the International Research Center for Japanese Studies will address the experience of pra...

The Paris Musée d’Ennery owes its existence to a young woman who, in the 1840s, had an interest in acquiring the Chines...

“I shall describe the means of vision, which no one at all to my knowledge has yet examined and understood in such detai...

Students compete with five- to seven-minute speeches using this year’s theme: Justice.

Winners receive cash priz...

Each country’s judgment is valid only in that country, as making a judgment is a sovereign act of the country. However, ...

Want to learn more about vaping? Curious about recent studies and the various health effects? Christine Johnston, M.P.H., ...

Join us for a keynote lecture from Dick Goldsby, Amherst's Thomas B. Walton Jr. Memorial Professor of Biology, Emeritus, o...

Learn how two Amherst College statistics professors got to where they are now in their careers in data science. Everyone i...

Rhonda Cobham-Sander, the Emily C. Jordan Folger Professor of Black Studies and English, will reflect with us about her te...

Keramet Reiter, Associate Professor of Criminology, Law & Society in the School of Social Ecology at the University of...

"After giving an overview of the Japanese court system, I would like to talk about the mediation system, which has been ev...

Some definitions of the word symmetry include “correct or pleasing proportion of the parts of a thing,” “bala...

Sarah Knott is a writer, feminist and professor of history. She is the author, most recently, of Mother Is a Verb: An U...

The music department presents a special talk by jazz historian and professor of American studies Sherrie Tucker. All are...

Laura L. Kiessling, Ph.D., the Novartis Professor of Chemistry in Department of Chemistry at the Massachusetts Institute o...

The conversion of interstellar gas into stars provides the energy, momentum and chemical enrichment that help drive the ev...

The rise of algorithmic analysis has been met by a rise in the interest in storytelling, suggesting that we are most human...

Professor Ronald T. Raines, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Chemistry

ABSTRACT: The lipid bila...

Please join us for a public masterclass as M@A Chamber artists the Parker Quartet work with students on their craft.

The foodie media universe offers storytellers with a passion for the culinary the opportunity to share in and define new c...

Miki Dezaki, a YouTuber who was threatened and harassed by Japan’s notorious netouyo (cyber neo-nationalists) for his vi...

Join Professor Judith Frank, in conversation with National Book Award recipient Susan Choi and finalist Laila Lalami. This...

Join host J. Riley Caldwell-O'Keefe, director of Amherst College’s Center for Teaching and Learning, in conversation wit...

Join host Jennifer Acker '00, founder and editor-in-chief of The Common literary magazine, with special guest Jesmy...