The First-Year experience would not be complete without its quintessential Seminar. Without regard for future major or minor choices, seminars were constructed around different faculty interests - from peace movements to ancient warfare, Mozart and rock-and-roll. Each seminar is designed to hone writing, speaking, critical thinking and other academic skills that students will draw upon throughout... More >>
William Smith sophomores Lisa Maticic, Franchessca Branlund, Meghan Cox, Katelyn Tyson and Sara Young recently were each awarded $500 for finishing in third-place at the 2008 Games 4 Girls contest, sponsored by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Their entry, a computer game called "Extreme Girl," follows a young woman trying to get to a sleepover on the last day of the school but for... More >>
In an exam where most people actually score a zero, Adam Giambrone '08 and Bailey Meeker '09, managed to be among only a third of test-takers whose score was positive. Giambrone and Meeker took part in the six-hour-long, William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition this academic year.
"Historically, the majority of students taking the exam score zero. We do not often have students at the Colleg... More >>
