photo by Ethan Gutmann ’99 (MS U.Colorado Boulder ’02; Ph.D pending ’06)

Graduating as a Geosciences major prepares students for jobs in environmental consulting, in teaching, and iin commercial fields such as energy and resource extraction.

Many students continue to graduate schools accross the country. Recent graduates have gone to M.I.T., Woods Hole, Stanford, Princeton, Cornell, University of Washington, and U.C. Santa Cruz, among others. Since 1996, six of our majors have won NSF graduate fellowships, more than in any undergraduate program in the entire country. We stay in close contact with many of our alumni, and often see them at meetings and elsewhere.

We take pride in statistics compiled by Franklin and Marshall College in the 8th edition of “Baccalaureate Origins of Doctoral Recipients” which shows that Williams ranked 8th among colleges nationally in the number of undergraduate geology majors who eventually received their Ph.D. degree in geology during the years 1920-1995.

Our majors have also gone on to careers in medicine, law and investment banking…but with a solid foundation in critical and analytical thinking and a deep appreciation for our home planet.

Williams Alumni with Bud Wobus at the American Geohysical Union meeting in San Francisco, December 2005

Front row L to R: Demian Saffer ’95 ( Professor-Penn State); Michelle Coombs ’94 (USGS, Alaska); Will Ouimet ’01 (MIT grad school); Carissa Carter ’01 (USGS, Calif.); Eric Daub ’04 (UC- Santa Barbara, grad school) ; Nathan Bangs ’83 (Professor-U of Texas); Bob Anderson ’74 (Professor-U of Colorado); Bud Wobus; Alex Sessions ’91 (Professor-Caltech). Back row: Erik Klemetti ’99 (U of Washington post-doc); Will Crane ’97 (Chevron Energy, Calif.); Kristin Lee ’01 (U of Maine, grad school); Catherine Riihimaki ’98 (Professor-Bryn Mawr); Sam Teplitzky ’98 (Geology Librarian-Stanford); Steph Kampf ’98 (U of Washington, grad school); Ethan Gutmann ’99 (U of Colorado, grad school); Rebecca Atkinson ’00 (U of Colorado, grad school).

Current students and other alumni making presentations at the meeting include:  Andrea Burke ’06;  Rebecca Lawrence ’07;  and professors Rachel Beane ’93 (Bowdoin);  Kelly MacGregor ’98 (Macalester);  Cathy  Manduca ’80 (Carleton  College); Bill Ruddiman ’64 (emeritus, U of Virginia); Bill Ryan ’61 (Columbia);  Eric Small ’93 (U of Colorado), and Heather Stoll ’94 (Williams).