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Ending the week on a high note!In a serendipitous moment, commencement speaker Cécile McLorin Salvant (@cecilemclorinsalvant) closed out her remarks with “Somewhere (There’s a Place for Us)” from Stephen Sondheim’s ‘50 “West Side Story.”For more from this year’s truly memorable commencement, head to the link in our bio.There’s a place for us,A time and place for us.Hold my hand and we’re halfway there.Hold my hand and I’ll take you thereSomehow,Some day,Somewhere! by @williamscollege

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We love these quiet summer moments, but can't wait to see you back on campus, Ephs 🐮💜📷: Jackson Hipp ‘28 @hipp.flicks by @williamscollege

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Working across disciplines and literary genres, associate professor of English Ricardo Wilson connects his life on the page to his life in the classroom—and the world.He is currently moving between writing his debut novel—a murder mystery—and promoting a compilation of Langston Hughes’ unpublished translations of short Spanish-language stories of Mexico and Cuba. He is also working on a translation of Lino Novás Calvo’s 1933 "El Negrero," a novelized portrait of the ruthless slave trader Pedro Blanco Fernández de Trava.“My projects are all grounded in exploration,” Ricardo says. “I see the work I do as quite unified. The challenge is to let go and lead with the art.”In the latest issue of Williams Magazine, read how Ricardo is using the Williams classroom as a space to test and refine ideas. Online now at the link in our bio. by @williamscollege

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our favorite place on film 🥹🎞️#GoEphs | @williamscollege by @williamscollege

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Intramurals are for everyone. More than 700 students, faculty and staff played soccer, basketball, dodgeball, track and field, Spikeball, and Ultimate Frisbee this past academic year thanks to a thriving recreational sports program that provides participants with opportunities for connection, fitness, fun—and a little bit of friendly competition.“We have a broad range of people who come for the exercise, and some people come to be with their friends. I want everyone to feel like they’re seen and have a community here,” says assistant director of intramural sports Kris Hoey.Read more about “Athletics for All” in the latest issue of Williams Magazine, online now (link in bio).today.williams.edu/magazine/athletics-for-all by @williamscollege

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More than a decade after graduating, Ben Augenbraun ’15 says he's still learning from his longtime mentor, physics professor Tiku Majumder. The pair just so happen to now be colleagues with adjoining labs. Their journey from lecture hall to neighboring labs started during Winter Study in 2013. Ben joined Majumder’s experimental physics lab, where Tiku was using lasers to measure the properties of indium atoms with extraordinary precision. By his senior year, Ben and Tiku were solving problems as partners, and Ben earned the 2015 LeRoy Apker Award for undergraduate research in physics. In nearly 30 years, Tiku's lab has received more than $2 million from the National Science Foundation, and he has worked with nearly 100 Williams students. Among them is another current colleague, Charlie Doret ’02, who also won an Apker award and returned to Williams to teach physics and astronomy.Both Ben and Charlie say they returned to Williams because they wanted to replicate in their careers the experiences they had as undergraduates—that of faculty and students partnering with each other to do pioneering science. Read the rest of the story from the latest issue of Williams Magazine, online now (link in our bio).📷: Jackson Hipp ‘28 @hipp.flicks by @williamscollege

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Julio Carpio ’28 says mentoring has allowed him to give back. This summer he is working as a lead fellow for the Warrior-Scholar Project’s (WSP) academic boot camps and spent one of his weeks in June at Williams with a cohort of five veterans (he is pictured above, left, with his cohort and fellow mentor). After his week at Williams, he was headed to Harvard and then Amherst to mentor more veterans throughout their boot camps.Julio was first introduced to the nonprofit @warrior_scholar_project, which assists veterans in navigating higher education and learning basic college readiness skills, prior to his participation in the boot camp program at Amherst in the summer of 2024. He says the experience gave him the confidence to try college again, adding that he realized that the student he had been right out of high school wasn’t who he was destined to be. “There was a version of me that was able to succeed in college,” he says. “It’s kind of bittersweet, actually,” says Julio, who’s work as a lead fellow concludes at the end of the summer. “I started the program as a student at Amherst College, and I’ll most likely be ending it there as a lead fellow.” He pauses to consider his journey. “But—go, Williams,” he says with a grin. “Beat Amherst. I want to make that clear.”Head to the link in our bio to read the rest of the story from Williams Today. by @williamscollege

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Recalling the term "collective effervescence" from her sociology courses at Williams, Rebecca Tauber '21, staff editor at @theathletichq (pictured in the second slide at the 2026 Winter Olympic Games), called her former professor Christina Simko to ask whether the concept could help us understand fan behavior during the NBA championship and the World Cup. What followed is an article about the real-time phenomenon inspired by Jalen Brunson, Lionel Messi and the Tartan Army. “People will do things in a crowd that they would never do on their own as individuals,” Simko says in the article, noting after it was published that she was impressed by Tauber applying what she learned at Williams to her work as a journalist. "In short, Williams taught me to read and write," Rebecca told us in an email. "It also introduced concepts—like collective effervescence—which help me understand sports and its role in our culture. As for the journalism skills, I learned all that from the Williams Record." "It also might be of interest—the World Cup photo (and the match I wrote about in the sociology piece) was Ivory Coast vs. Ecuador on June 14, which I rushed to in Philly after driving home that morning from my five-year reunion in Williamstown!"Read the story in The Athletic at the link in our bio. by @williamscollege

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Skip Cole ’57 is expanding understanding of African art through his pathbreaking scholarship and a recent gift to @williamsartmuseum.Some of the works will anchor a gallery in the new, purpose-built museum building slated to open in the fall of 2027, WCMA’s centennial year. The gallery, one of 11 in the building, will focus on art in Nigeria in the 1960s, a time of great disruption and change in that country.Cole’s gift came at a “fortuitous” time, says Pamela Franks, the Class of 1956 Director of the museum. He initially reached out about donating the pieces while staff, students and subject-matter experts were immersed in the first-ever assessment of WCMA’s entire collection of more than 15,000 objects. The review “helped us understand the contours of the existing holdings with fresh eyes and showed where strategic additions could make a meaningful difference,” Franks says.Read more from the latest issue of Williams Magazine at the link in our bio. by @williamscollege

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Vintage Ephs 🎞️#GoEphs | @williamscollege by @williamscollege

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One last look at our year On The Log 🪵The initiative officially came to a close at the end of the spring semester, but the spirit of the log will always live on.“The ideal college is Mark Hopkins on one end of a log and a student on the other.” These famous words, allegedly spoken by James A. Garfield, class of 1856, at an alumni dinner, have served as a prominent metaphor for the distinctiveness of a Williams education for over 150 years.Led by professors Christopher Nugent and Edan Dekel, programming over the last year encouraged the Williams community to engage with the mythos of the log, whether in face-to-face conversations on the log benches throughout campus or during a crochet circle, in the classroom or deep in Hopkins Forest. Take a look back with us at some highlights, and visit the link in our bio for more. by @williamscollege

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