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students journal while sitting atop rocks in California

Williams-Mystic Fall 2021 Update

Executive Director Tom Van Winkle delivers a message to the Williams-Mystic community regarding operations following the COVID-19 pandemic. Williams-Mystic is planning to operate an in-person Fall 2021 semester. We highly encourage students to sign up for our email list, apply now for our Fall 2021 or Spring 2022 semesters, or request information.

image shows students standing around ecology professor Tim Pusak learning about tide pools in Alaska

Williams-Mystic Partners in $4.9 Million Grant to Examine Historical Injustice in New England

Learn more about Williams-Mystic’s crucial role in this three-year project that will use maritime history as a basis for studying historical injustices and generating new insights into the relationship between European colonization in North America, the dispossession of Native American land, and racial slavery in New England.

Alumni Stories

“Katy Newcomer Lawson (F’12) has traveled far and wide. It’s one of the first things I notice in the About section of her website: the list of places where she’s worked spans coasts, countries, and even continents. In the course of her work as a marine scientist, Katy has been everywhere from the Chesapeake Bay to the coast of Maine, the Pacific Northwest to Panama, Alaska to Australia…”