- Jay Pasachoff
Jay Myron Pasachoff (born 1943) is an American astronomer. Pasachoff is Field Memorial Professor of Astronomy at Williams College and the author of textbooks and tradebooks in astronomy, physics, mathematics, and other sciences. - Mark Hopkins
Mark Hopkins (February 4, 1802-June 17, 1887) was an American educator and theologian. Great-nephew of the theologian Samuel Hopkins, Mark Hopkins born in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. He graduated in 1824 at Williams College, where he was a tutor in 1825-1827, and where in 1830, after having graduated in the previous year at the Berkshire Medical College at Pittsfield, he became professor of Moral Philosophy and Rhetoric. - Ephraim Williams
Ephraim Williams Jr. (March 7, 1715 - September 8,1755) was the benefactor of Williams College, located in northwestern Massachusetts. Ephraim Jr. was the eldest son of Ephraim Sr. (1691-1754) and Elizabeth Jackson Williams (d.1718). He was born in Newton, Massachusetts, and was raised by his maternal grandparents after his mother died in 1718. In his youth, Ephraim Jr. was a sailor. In 1742, he moved to Stockbridge, Massachusetts, where his parents had relocated, … - Colin Adams
Colin Conrad Adams (born October 13, 1956) is a mathematician primarily working in the areas of hyperbolic 3-manifolds and knot theory. His book, "The Knot Book", has been praised for its accessible approach to advanced topics in knot theory. He is currently Francis Christopher Oakley Third Century Professor of Mathematics at Williams College, where he has been since 1985. - David Strathairn
David Russell Strathairn (born January 26 1949) is an Academy Award-nominated American film and television actor. - James MacGregor Burns
James MacGregor Burns (b. August 3 1918) is a presidential biographer, authority on leadership studies, Woodrow Wilson Professor (emeritus) of Political Science at Williams College, and scholar at the James MacGregor Burns Academy of Leadership at the University of Maryland, College Park. He received a Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award in 1971 for his "Roosevelt: Soldier of Freedom 1940-1945". - Mark Udall
Mark Emery Udall (born July 18 1950), American politician, has been a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives since 1999, representing. The district consists of Broomfield, Clear Creek, Eagle, Gilpin, Grand, and Summit counties, as well as portions of Adams, Boulder, and Jefferson counties. Udall is an official candidate for the United States Senate in 2008 - William Cullen Bryant
William Cullen Bryant (November 3, 1794 - June 12, 1878) an American romantic poet, journalist, political adviser, and homeopath. - Mark C. Taylor
Mark C. Taylor (born 13 December 1945) is a philosopher of religion and cultural critic who has published more than twenty books on theology, philosophy, art and architecture, media, technology, economics, and the natural sciences. After graduating from Wesleyan University (1968), he received his doctorate in the study of religion from Harvard University and began teaching at Williams College in 1973. - Raymond Chang
Raymond Chang is a professor at Williams College who has written several published textbooks, mostly in the field of chemistry. His most used text is titled "Chemistry" and is currently in its ninth edition of publication. He has also published a few children's books and juvenile reader books. In his free time, he takes care of his forest garden, practices the violin and plays tennis - Fay Vincent
Francis Thomas "Fay" Vincent, Jr. (born May 29, 1938 in Waterbury, Connecticut) is a former entertainment lawyer and sports executive who served as the 8th commissioner of Major League Baseball from September 13, 1989 to September 7, 1992. He is a graduate of The Hotchkiss School and Williams College, class of 1960, which he attended on a full academic scholarship, and Yale Law School, class of 1963. - Erin Burnett
Erin Burnett is co-anchor of the CNBC program, "Squawk on the Street". She and Mark Haines host the program from a set overlooking the New York Stock Exchange. In addition to "Squawk on the Street", she also anchors the network's 2pm ET program "Street Signs". Prior to joining CNBC in 2005, Burnett worked at Bloomberg Television, where she served as anchor of "Bloomberg on the Markets", covering the stock market open and newsmaker interviews, … - William Bennett
William John Bennett (born July 31, 1943) is an American conservative pundit and politician. He served as United States Secretary of Education from 1985 to 1988. He also held the post of Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy (or "Drug Czar") under George H. W. Bush. Bennett was born in Brooklyn but later moved to Washington, D.C., where he attended Gonzaga College High School. - Dick Farley
Dick Farley is a college football and track & field coach who was selected to the College Football Hall of Fame in 2006. Farley was an All-America defensive back for Boston University, where he was captain of the football and track & field teams and graduated in 1968. He spent two years playing for the San Diego Chargers of the American Football League before moving on to coaching. Farley has coached at Williams College since 1972. - Wendy Shalit
Author Wendy Shalit (born 1975) graduated from Williams College with a BA degree in Philosophy. She is the sister of writer Ruth Shalit and Mina Shalit. Her articles on cultural and literary topics have appeared in "Commentary", "The Wall Street Journal" and "Slate". She is the author of the book "A Return to Modesty: Discovering the Lost Virtue", published by Free Press in 1999. - Ethan Zuckerman
Ethan Zuckerman is an activist and researcher focused on information technology and information development. Based at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School, he is the co-founder of Global Voices , an international web-based community of bloggers and citizen journalists dedicated to broadening intercultural understanding and improving global journalism. - Michael Beschloss
Michael Beschloss is an award-winning historian of the Presidency and the author of eight books, including his most recent work, the magnificent bestseller, Presidential Courage: Brave Leaders and How They Changed America 1789-1989 . Called "the nation's leading Presidential historian," by Newsweek , Beschloss has made history himself, serving as the first Presidential Historian for NBC News-the first time any major network has created such a position. - William Wootters
William Kent Wootters is an American physicist, and a leading contributor to the field of quantum information theory. He proved the no cloning theorem along with Wojciech H. Zurek and Dennis Dieks. He has also worked on the quantification of entanglement. He earned a B.S. from Stanford University in 1973, and his Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin in 1980. He has been a member of the physics department at Williams College since 1982, … - Bo Peabody
Bo Peabody (1970 -) is an entrepreneur, and Internet executive who co-founded Tripod.com, one of the first and most successful dot-coms, in 1992. (It was sold to Lycos in 1998.) Peabody graduated from Williams College in 1994. He is currently Managing General Partner at Village Ventures, a venture capital firm. He is also the author of Lucky or Smart, published by Random House. - S. Lane Faison
S. Lane Faison was an art history professor at Williams College. Faison headed the art history department at Williams from 1940 to 1969 and remained on the full-time faculty until 1976. Several of his students went on to direct major museums including Earl A. Powell III of the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC, Glenn D. Lowry of the Museum of Modern Art in New York and Thomas Krens of the Guggenheim Museum in New York. - Kirk Varnedoe
J. Kirk T. Varnedoe was an American art historian and writer, and a noted curator of painting and sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City. He was a Professor of the History of Art at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, and studied at Williams College. After his years at Williams, he went to Paris, where he became expert on Auguste Rodin's drawings, and fell in love with French culture and civilization. - Arthur Levitt
Arthur Levitt Jr. (born 1931) was the twenty-fifth and longest serving Chairman of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) from 1993 to 2001. Widely hailed as a champion of the individual investor, he has been criticized for not pushing for tougher accounting rules. Growing up in Brooklyn, Levitt received his first exposure to the world of finance through his father, Arthur Levitt, Sr., … - Richard Helms
Richard McGarrah Helms (March 30, 1913 - October 23, 2002) was the Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) from 1966 to 1973. He was the only director to have been convicted of lying to Congress over Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) undercover activities. In 1977, he was sentenced to the maximum fine and received a suspended two-year prison sentence. Despite this, Helms remained a revered figure in the intelligence profession. - John Frankenheimer
John Michael Frankenheimer (February 19, 1930 - July 6, 2002) was an American film director. - G. Stanley Hall
Granville Stanley Hall (February 1, 1844 - April 24, 1924) was a psychologist and educator who pioneered American psychology. His interests focused on childhood development and evolutionary theory. Hall was the first president of the American Psychological Association and the first president of Clark University. Born in Ashfield, Massachusetts, Hall graduated from Williams College in 1867, then studied at the Union Theological Seminary. - A. R. Gurney
A.R. Gurney (b. November 1, 1930) is an American playwright and novelist. The playwright is known for works including Love Letters, The Cocktail Hour, and The Dining Room. Gurney currently lives in both New York and Connecticut. - Annalee Saxenian
Her prior publications include Regional Advantage: Culture and Competition in Silicon Valley and Route 128 (Harvard University Press, 1994), Silicon Valley's New Immigrant Entrepreneurs (PPIC, 1999), and Local and Global Networks of Immigrant Professionals in Silicon Valley (PPIC, 2002). Saxenian holds a Doctorate in Political Science from MIT, a Master's in Regional Planning from the University of California, Berkeley, and a BA in Economics from Williams College. - Khari Stephenson
Khari Stephenson, pron., (born January 18, 1981 in Kingston, Jamaica) is a Jamaican football player (midfielder), who plays for Swedish club AIK of Allsvenskan. Stephenson joined the club on a four-year contract in January 2007 following a highly successful season at Gothenburg based club GAIS in 2006. A product of the Real Mona youth system, Stephenson played college soccer at Williams College from 2000 to 2003, … - Andrea Barrett
Andrea Barrett (b. November 16, 1954) is an acclaimed American writer. Barrett received her B.A. in biology from Union College and briefly attended a Ph.D. program in zoology. She began writing fiction seriously in her thirties, but was relatively unknown until the publication of "Ship Fever", a collection of short stories which won the National Book Award in 1996. - Manning Marable
Manning Marable (b. 13 May 1950 in Dayton, Ohio) is an American political scholar. He holds the position of Professor of Public Affairs, Political Science, and History at Columbia University, where he founded and directed the Institute for Research in African-American Studies. He has published widely, and is politically active in a variety of progressive causes. - Amos Eaton
Amos Eaton (May 17, 1776 - 1842) was a scientist and educator in the Troy, New York area. Eaton attended Williams College; after graduating in 1799 he studied law in New York City and was admitted to the state bar in 1802. He practiced law in Catskill, New York until 1810, when he was jailed on charges of forgery. - Paul Park
Paul Park (b. 1954) is an American science fiction author and fantasy author. He lives in Berkshire County, Massachusetts, with his wife and two children. He also teaches a Reading and Writing Science Fiction course at Williams College. He has also taught numerous times at the Clarion West Writing Workshop. - Amos Lawrence
Amos Lawrence, (b. 22 April 1786, Groton, Massachusetts - d. 31 December 1852, Boston, Massachusetts) was the son of Samuel Lawrence, a Revolutionary War officer, and the founder of Groton Academy, (now Lawrence Academy at Groton), where his son, Amos, was educated. In 1799, Lawrence became a clerk at a country store in Dunstable, Massachusetts. In 1804 he moved to Boston and founded a dry-goods mercantile, which became extraordinarily successful. - Eugene Field
Eugene Field (September 2, 1850 - November 4, 1895) was an American writer, best known for poetry for children and for humorous essays. Field was born in St. Louis, Missouri. After the death of his mother he was raised by a cousin in Amherst, Massachusetts. Field attended Williams College in Massachusetts. Unfortunately, his father, Roswell Field, died when he was nineteen and he dropped out after eight months. - Herbert A. Allen
Herbert A. Allen has been a director of The Coca-Cola Company since 1982. Mr. Allen is president and chief executive officer and a director of Allen & Company Incorporated, a privately held investment firm, and has held these positions for more than the past five years. Mr. Allen was a managing director of Allen & Company LLC, a privately held investment banking firm, from September 2002 to February 2003. He is a director of Convera Corporation. - Kristin Forbes
Kristin Forbes is an Associate Professor of International Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management. She was confirmed by the U.S. Senate in 2003 as the youngest-ever member of the President's Council of Economic Advisors. She returned to academia in mid-2005. From 2001-2002, Forbes served in the U.S. Treasury Department's Office of International Affairs as the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Quantitative Policy Analysis. - Robert F. Engle
Robert F. Engle (born November 10, 1942 in Syracuse, New York) received the 2003 Nobel Prize in Economics, sharing the award with Clive Granger, "for methods of analyzing economic time series with time-varying volatility (ARCH)". He graduated from Williams College with a BS in physics. He got his M.S. in physics and his Ph.D. in Economics, both from Cornell University in 1966 and 1969 respectively, and was a MIT Professor of Economics from 1969 to 1977. - Herchel Smith
Herchel Smith (1925 - 2001) was the inventor of key intellectual property and patents behind oral and injectable contraceptives. In later life, he was a major benefactor to university science. In England, Cambridge University, Emmanuel College, Cambridge and Queen Mary, University of London have been the major beneficiaries. In the US, it has been Harvard, the University of Pennsylvania and Williams College. - Bernard Bailyn
Bernard Bailyn , whose historical work centers on early American history, the American Revolution, and the Anglo-American world in the pre-industrial era, is Adams University Professor and James Duncan Phillips Professor of Early American History, emeritus , at Harvard University. He also serves as a Senior Fellow in the Society of Fellows and is the Director of the International Seminar on the History of the Atlantic World. - John Bascom
John Bascom was born in Genoa, New York, on May 1, 1827. He was a graduate of Williams College with the class of 1849, and held many scholarly and honorary degrees from that and other institutions of learning. He was professor of rhetoric at Williams College from 1855 to 1874, and was President of the University of Wisconsin from 1874 to 1887. Bascom graduated from Williams College in 1849, then spent several years studying and working, …
|
| |