News & Announcements

Congratulations to all of our Biology graduates and our prize winners! To celebrate your special day, the department has created a short video for you!… Continue reading »

Hannah Ratcliffe ’09 ,MSc, Assistant Director of Research on the Primary Health Care team at Ariadne Labs Hector Trujillo ’16, PhD candidate at UC Berkeley Molly Sharlach ’05, Career in Science Communication… Continue reading »

Miriam Li ’23 was awarded a summer research fellowship from the American Society of Plant Biologists to continue her work in Cynthia Holland’s lab this summer. Continue reading »

For more info and zoom link: https://williams.joinhandshake.com/events/676953/share_preview… Continue reading »

We very much hope to run our summer research program in person this summer, and many at the College are working hard to make that happen. The one important remaining hurdle is that our Health Center is not open in the summer months. We are currently working on health staffing… Continue reading »

This year’s Honors & Summer Research Info session will be on Monday, February 15 at 10:00am EDT (ZOOM link).  At this info session, Biology Majors can learn about honors research opportunities and/or summer research directly from faculty who will be taking students.  Note: the deadline to apply to… Continue reading »

Note:  If you are a first year student, you do not need advising at this time. Continue reading »

For thesis students considering their decision about whether to return to campus, this table provides information about the options available in their labs. Continue reading »

Maroja’s project, titled “The Evolution and Maintenance of Variable Species Boundaries,” combines field work with new technology to increase understanding of how speciation—the process through which new species are formed and a fundamental driver of biodiversity—takes place. Working with a complex of field cricket species, with a focus on two local species, the project will also involve measurement of behavior and other traits related to mate choice as well as collection and analyses of genomic data. Continue reading »

Biology majors from the Class of 2020 were awarded their degrees on June 7 in a Zoom-based ceremony hosted by the Biology Department.  The ceremony includes 1) speeches by graduating seniors Chloe Henderson and Eugene Cho; 2) Biology highlights from the year from Biology Dept Chair Lois Banta; 3)… Continue reading »

This national scholarship recognizes “the nation’s next generation of leaders in science, engineering and mathematics.”  Ben plans to pursue a Ph.D. in Molecular Biology after graduating from Williams.  Ben’s mentors include Assistant Professor Pei-Wen Chen and Williams Biology Department alum Zuzana Tothova (’01), currently an investigator… Continue reading »

Full document:  Honors Research Open House 2020 The deadline to apply to the honors program and/or the summer research program is February 7th.  Information and applications can be found here.  There will be an open house and information session for those… Continue reading »

The Biology Department at Williams College, a premier liberal arts college with a long-standing tradition of excellence in the sciences, invites applications for a two-year visiting faculty position, to begin July 2020. We are especially interested in candidates who can contribute to the intellectual vibrancy and diversity of the academic… Continue reading »