Number of Biology majors: 47 in the Class of 2008, 61 in the Class of 2007

In recent years Williams has given honorary degrees to the following distinguished scientists: Dr. Eric Lander, Dr. Tom Cech, Dr. Rita Colwell

Six Biology faculty currently have NIH or NSF grants to support their research programs

PubMed lists 18 publications by Williams College Biology faculty and students since 2001

During 2005–2006, Biology majors studied abroad during WSP or the Fall or Spring semester in Turks and Caicos, the Galapagos, Australia, Italy, Oxford, Ecuador ...

Biology majors are active participants in theater, music, athletics, college governance, community service--for example...

Alissa Caron '06 received the William Bradford Turner Citizenship Prize awarded at Commencement
Ben Brown '06 made a documentary film about copper miners in Ecuador
Devon Yagel '07 participated in a swim across the English Channel while she was at Oxford to raise money for the Mothers Programmes

The Whitehead Institute at MIT accepts two Williams students each summer to work with their researchers

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