Project Spotlight

Williamstown Weather

Curious about the weather in Williamstown at this moment?

Since 1983, the Center for Environmental Studies at Williams College has monitored weather in Williamstown at a site in Hopkins Memorial Forest, a 2500 acre preserve managed for education, research, and recreation.

Improvements in technology allowed streaming of weather data from Station #1 to campus in near-real time. The Williamstown Weather website allows users to display current meteorological conditions, to search the database of weather observations for 1983-present and to use the historic data for precipitation, snowfall and temperature to provide perspective for the modern observations.


Williams College subscribes to International Television for the 8 languages taught on campus. Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Russian, and Spanish are available in classrooms in Weston Hall and in the OIT@Stetson computer lab.

International television stations are on channels 17 – 39.

Two of the channels, one Chinese and one Japanese are currently streamed on the EphTV page.


Williams' new CONTENTdm server makes it easy to share and teach with collections of digital media such as pictures, audio and video.

In colleges and universities across the country, faculty are realizing the importance of their collections and the potential that new digital media have for teaching and collaboration. As these collections are developed and digitized, technologies are emerging that allow them to be searched and browsed through the web. The technology that Williams has adopted is called CONTENTdm.

There are several collections already available, from photographs of Afghanistan and Williamstown, to Japanese language sound clips and videos of Williams dance performances. CONTENTdm software makes it easy for the owner of the collection to digitize and catalog items, and easy for the user to search and browse the collection.


Have you heard of WIT, the Williams instructional technology summer program?

The WIT Summer Program originated with a three-year grant from the Mellon Foundation in 1997. The College has continued this important program, which encourages the use of technology in teaching and learning. For 10 weeks in the summer, 10-12 students work on 14-15 projects for faculty from various disciplines.

During the spring, students can apply to be a WIT intern and faculty interested in participating in WIT 2004 can submit a project request. Be sure to check out the featured WIT projects.