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Robert E. Rubin, former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, will be principal speaker at Williams College's 212th Commencement on Sunday, June 3.

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"Exiting Nirvana: A Daughter's Life with Autism," by Clara Claiborne Park is a book deserving of a wide audience.

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One of America's most renowned poets, Louise Gluck is the winner of the coveted Bollingen Prize in Poetry. She is the Preston S. Parish '41 Third Century Senior Lecturer in English at Williams College.

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Anyone not satisfied with last year's millennial celebrations might take comfort from a mathematician at Williams College, who patiently insists that the new millennium arrives January 1, 2001.

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A partial solar eclipse will be visible from the entire continental U.S. on Christmas Day, Monday, Dec. 25. It is important, though, to observe it safely.

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Professor of sociology at Williams College, chronicles the rise of advertising and public relations in his new book "Image Makers: Advertising, Public Relations, and the Ethos of Advocacy." The book was co-written with his wife, an independent anthropologist.

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The Edgar Allan Poe Cryptographic Challenge contest has a winner. After over 150 years, Gil Broza of Toronto has solved the second of two mysterious ciphers left by Poe.

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Williams College will honor eight distinguished scientists at its Fall Convocation on Sept. 23. Dr. Rita R. Colwell, director of NSF, will give the principal address. The college's science center will be dedicated in the afternoon.

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A team of researchers led by Hofstra University and Williams College have reported finding a significant amount of deuterium (a rare isotope of hydrogen) raining into the center of our Milky Way (Nature, 6-29-00).

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Williams College graduate Ali Michael, for her senior thesis in African and Middle Eastern Studies, wrote a biography of Gertrude Sgwentu, a black woman who created the foundation for South African Female Empowerment.

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A new series of virtual study guides, produced and published by educational service www.thinkwell.com, are web-based interactive textbooks, which offer complete courses on pre-calculus, college algebra, and calculus.

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Four mathematicians have announced a mathematical proof of the Double Bubble Conjecture: the familiar double soap bubble is the optimal shape for enclosing and separating two chambers of air.

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"Violence," a new course at Williams College, aims to provide broad historical and comparative frameworks within which to locate and understand violence.

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Hoping to clear up a 150-year-old mystery of an unsolved cryptograph, an English professor and a software company are sponsoring the Edgar Allan Poe Cryptographic Challenge.

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Williams College Russian Professor Darra Goldstein will add to her "platter" the editorship of the new journal Gastronomica and a new book series, California Studies in Food and Culture.

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Eager to celebrate the upcoming third millennium? According to a Williams College professor of math, the new millennium begins not on Jan. 1, 2000, but on New Year's Day, 2001.

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"Still Lifting, Still Climbing: African American Women's Contemporary Activism" edited by Williams College post-doctoral fellow Kimberly Springer, examines the political activism of African American women since the civil rights movement.

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Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. says of the new book, "Sister Revolutions: French Lightning, American Light,"that it is a keen and judicious meditation on the two great revolutions that created the modern world..."

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On Wednesday night, November 17, the Leonid meteor shower may be a "meteor storm," with a shooting star streaking across the sky every few seconds, the director of Williams College's Hopkins Observatory. The predicted peak of the storm is 9:08 p.m. EST, and it is not known how long the storm will last.

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Williams College in Williamstown, Mass., will host a symposium titled "Transferring the Panama Canal: Passage to a New Millennium" on Thursday, Oct. 21. The event will feature leading figures in the canal's history and transition.

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Astronomer Jay M. Pasachoff, physicist Bryce Babcock and a team of Williams science students are traveling to Romania for the August 11 solar eclipse, where the chance of weather cooperating is pretty good for eclipse chasing. Pasachoff and his team from Williamstown, Mass. will perform three experiments at the site. This will make 21 central and annular eclipses that Pasachoff has studied.

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According to a research report to be published in the journal, Industrial Relations, males who place a high priority on marriage and family before entering the labor market earn more than those who do not, and females with the same emphasis on family do not appear to suffer in terms of subsequent earnings, contrary to most previous research.

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Three students at Williams College co-authored a new cookbook designed for college students--The Healthy College Cookbook.

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W. H. Freeman and Company has announced publication of Context is Everything: The Nature of Memory, by Susan Engel. The book explores how the context of a recollection--place, company, purpose, and situation--affects the essence and experience of the memory.

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Actor Christopher Reeve (47), who has continued to work despite physical paralysis, will give the main address at Williams College's 210th Commencement on Sunday, June 6, 1999.

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An astronomer and a physicist at Williams College go behind the scenes to show how the weather really works in the first of three joint science books, Atmosphere and Weather. Their guide introduces fundamental and entertaining experiments for both home and school.

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"The funniest writer of our time is also one of the most troubling," writes Robert Bell, editor of Critical Essays on Kingsley Amis. Bell has brought together a veritable Who's Who among contemporary fiction writers and critics to help explicate the humorous and disturbing nature of Amis' writings.

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Between semesters at Williams College is one month known as Winter study, where student take a single intensive course. This year a number of students had their first taste of real research.

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The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has announced the awarding of a three-year grant of $475,000 to the Williams Project on the Economics of Higher Education to investigate the economic implications of "peer effects," or the notion that the quality of a student's education depends on the quality of fellow students.

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The Streetwise Guide makes calculus palatable by smothering it with outrageous humor. Ranked one, two, or three on the Amazon.com list of calculus bestsellers, the conversational book was authored by matheticians from Williams College and the University of California at Davis.

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Williams College has announced that Yo-Yo Ma will give the principal address at the college's 209th Commencement, Sunday, June 7.

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Many WWW surfers are familiar with the "Dancing Baby," a cha-cha-ing toddler created by 3-D computer animation. But a Williams College junior has taken the Dancing Baby to a whole new level--the virtual jukebox. Although the baby isn't his, its musical incorporation into the student's Web site has brought him unforeseen acclaim.