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Concert Benefits Girls Empowerment

02:30PM / Friday, April 20, 2018

EGREMONT, Mass. — Miss Hall's School seniors Anna Kim and Tiffany Luu will host a fundraising concert titled "Girls Aloud! Advocating Girls Empowerment" on Sunday, April 29, from 12:30 to 2 p.m. at The Barn at the Egremont Village Inn on South Main Street.

A portion of the proceeds will benefit Berkshire HorseWorks, a 501c3 based in Richmond that provides EAGALA Model Equine Assisted Psychotherapy to those at risk and equine-assisted team building for organizations of all kinds. Kim has been interning at the organization during her senior year as part of the school's Horizons program.

Tickets are limited.General admission is $15,and the student price is

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MCLA Presents 'Into the Woods'

02:20PM / Friday, April 20, 2018

NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts' 2017-18 theater season, "We the People," will culminate with the theater program's adaptation of Stephen Sondheim's "Into the Woods," which will open on Friday, April 20.

Performances will take place at 8 p.m. on April 20, 21, 27 and 28, with matinees at 2 p.m. on Saturday, April 21, and Sunday, April 29, in Venable Theater on the MCLA campus. A talkback will take place after the 8 p.m. show on Saturday, April 28. For more information or to reserve tickets, call the box office at 413-662-5123 or go online.

Directed by Jeremy Winchester, assistant professor of theater at MCLA, the show

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BCC Students to be Inducted Into National Honor Society

01:08PM / Friday, April 20, 2018

PITTSFIELD, Mass. — Berkshire Community College will hold an induction ceremony for students joining the Xi Alpha Chapter of Phi Theta Kappa on Tuesday, April 24 at 12:30 p.m. in the Boland Theatre of the Koussevitzky Arts Center on the college's main campus in Pittsfield.

Phi Theta Kappa is the national honor society of junior and community colleges in the United States. The purpose of the society is to recognize and encourage scholarship among students.

To be eligible for membership, students with freshman standing (12 to 29 credits) must have achieved a cumulative grade point average of 3.8 or better. Students with a sophomore standing (30 or more credits) must have achieved

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NCF Honors 13 Williams Students, Alumni

01:03PM / Friday, April 20, 2018

WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The National Science Foundation has awarded research fellowships to nine Williams College students and alumni. In addition, the NSF has awarded honorable mentions to four Williams graduates. The NSF fellowships support graduate study in the natural and social sciences.

The nine Williams fellowship recipients are Gordon Bauer, Class of 2014, an engineering student at the University of California, Berkeley; Erin Curley, Class of 2015, a psychology student at Temple University; Dylan Freas, Class of 2016, a chemistry student at the California Institute of Technology; Nitsan Goldstein, Class of 2015, who studies neuroscience at the University of Pennsylvania;

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Q&A: Superintendent Interviews Offer Window into Administrators� Thinking

By Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
04:15PM / Monday, April 16, 2018

WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — It was inevitable that someone was going to walk away disappointed from April 5 meeting of the Mount Greylock Regional School District Transition. But the School Committee members themselves were not disappointed in the answers they got from the two finalists for the district's superintendent post. And while the panel only could choose one of the candidates, there were a lot of similarities in the responses it received from Taconic High School Principal John Vosburgh and interim Superintendent Kimberley Grady, the eventual selection. Each recognizes a growing need for emotional support for students, each has been challenged by the time

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Mount Greylock Building Committee Grapples With Technology Issue

By Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
04:34PM / Saturday, April 14, 2018

WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — One Mount Greylock School Building Committee member pressed hard Tuesday to make sure the new school is part of the digital age … in every sense of the word digital. Richard Cohen pushed back hard against a decision not to purchase classroom whiteboards that are compatible with the touchscreen capability in the projectors the district has purchased — challenging both the decision itself and the process by which it was made. Cohen, who has called in the past for greater committee oversight of purchases in the $64 million addition/renovation project, convinced his colleagues Tuesday to appoint a working group to gather

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Williams Senior Wins Cambridge Scholarship

12:23PM / Friday, April 13, 2018

WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Williams College senior Cynthia Okoye has been awarded the prestigious Gates Cambridge Scholarship to pursue a Ph.D. in chemistry.

With the help of the Gates Cambridge Scholarship, Okoye hopes to continue studying the mechanisms that allow diseases to thrive in the human body and use this knowledge to inform rational drug and therapy design. Okoye is passionate about Africa's development and views her scholarship as an opportunity to combine her scientific expertise and leadership skills to improve Africa's place in the scientific world. After she completes her Ph.D., she plans to pursue a postdoctoral fellowship at the Africa Health Research

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Mount Greylock to Retain Counsel on Building Scheduling Issue

By Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
03:37AM / Monday, April 09, 2018

WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Mount Greylock Regional School District Transition Committee on Thursday decided to retain a Boston attorney to help the district protect its rights in regard to the $64 million addition/renovation project. At issue currently is a change in the phasing of the project, which originally planned to have classes move into the new three-story academic wing during this month's vacation week. This winter, it became apparent to the district that due in part to shortages of skilled tradespeople, that timeline would be impossible to keep. While the project remains on target for completion — including demolition of the existing academic

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Mount Greylock Committee Offers Interim Super Full-Time Post

By Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
11:03PM / Thursday, April 05, 2018

WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Mount Greylock Regional School District's Transition Committee Thursday voted to offer its superintendent position to interim Superintendent Kimberly Grady. On a vote of 6-0-1 with committee member Steven Miller abstaining, the panel chose Grady from among two finalists for the position. Thursday's special meeting of the Transition Committee kicked off with two hour-long interviews of Grady and Taconic High School Principal John Vosburgh, and the vote was preceded by a 45-minute discussion in which the committee members reflected on the answers they heard in the interview and discussed the extent to which each candidate would be a good

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Berkshire County Sixth-Graders 'Go to College'

03:41PM / Wednesday, April 04, 2018

PITTSFIELD, Mass. — More than 1,000 sixth-grade students from around Berkshire County are visiting college campuses this month for the 12th annual Berkshire County Goes to College Day, sponsored by the Berkshire Compact for Education and Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts.

MCLA, Berkshire Community College, Williams College and Simon's Rock College of Bard all will host students for sessions on college life and planning for the future. On Wednesday, students from Williamstown Elementary, Hoosac Valley and Undermountain Elementary visited Berkshire Community College, rotated through three sessions and enjoyed a free pizza lunch.

Denise Richardello, executive vice

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