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Berkshire Community College Awarded $5.5M for Student Center

05:20PM / Tuesday, July 10, 2018

We are here in Westfield to celebrate the signing of our capital investment bond bill worth nearly $4 billion. Included in this plan is $950 million towards public higher education to address the deferred maintenance backlog and to support workforce skills needs. pic.twitter.com/f4T0JxqWr3

— Charlie Baker (@MassGovernor) July 10, 2018 PITTSFIELD, Mass. — Berkshire Community College has been awarded $5.5 million for a project that will transform the first floor of the Field Administration building into a One Stop Student Success Center. Gov. Charlie Baker announced this award on Tuesday at Westfield State University. The funding is part of a five-year $190 million

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Williams Awards Three Faculty Members with Bushnell Prize

01:48PM / Friday, July 06, 2018

WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Three faculty members at Williams College have been recognized for excellence in teaching and writing.

Lucy Schmidt (economics), Janneke van de Stadt (Russian) and Heather Williams (biology) are the recipients of the Nelson Bushnell '20 Prize, an award given annually to the faculty since 1995.

Schmidt was noted for her extensive publishing record and her work in making the economics curriculum more inclusive, van de Stadt for her pedagogical creativity in introductory and advanced courses in Russian, and Williams for her highly effective laboratory teaching and stalwart presence in neuroscience.

Lucie Schmidt

Schmidt, professor of economics,

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More Drury Student Art Installed on Cascade Building

By Rebecca Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
03:58AM / Tuesday, July 03, 2018

NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — This was the seventh year new artwork by Drury High School students has been installed on the side of the Cascade School Supplies building on Brown Street.

"Again we stand here in awe," Cascade President Pete Cote said Monday during a brief ceremony.

This was the first year that Mayor Thomas Bernard was on hand during the ceremony to see the art and a handful of the artists first-hand.

"It's incredible," Bernard said.

And this was the last year that Drury High art teacher Phoebe Pepper posed with the students whom she shepherded through the process and accepted the annual monetary donation from Cascade, which also donates the wood

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BArT Announces Junior Book Awards

12:18PM / Friday, June 29, 2018

ADAMS, Mass. — Berkshire Arts & Technology Charter Public School presented Junior Book Awards during a ceremony on Friday, June 15, at an all-school assembly.

Ruth Bristol

Darrel Lynch

Thomas Cook

Isaiah Albright

Natalie Celebi

Hannah Stringer

Joshua Doubiago & Johnyce Lanphear-Dyer

Johnyce Lanphear-Dyer

Ruth Bristol

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Mount Greylock Offices Relocated for Summer

By Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
01:36AM / Tuesday, June 26, 2018

WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Mount Greylock Regional School District on Monday closed the campus of the middle-high school to the public until some time in August as it wraps up the addition/renovation project. With the snow-delayed end of the school year finally arriving, the district has turned the grounds over to Turner Construction and its subcontractors, who will begin demolishing the 1960s-era academic wings, redoing the parking lot and putting the finishing touches on the three-story addition where students will begin class in September. All of the district's and middle-high school's offices have been temporarily relocated off campus according to a note

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Williamstown Elementary School Committee Holds Final Meeting

By Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
04:01AM / Thursday, June 21, 2018

WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — With little fanfare and with an eye on the future, the Williamstown Elementary School Committee on Wednesday held its last scheduled meeting before disbanding on June 30. Four members of the five-person panel gathered in the school's conference room to deal with some of the committee's closing business prior to the Mount Greylock Regional Transition Committee's July 1 assumption of control for all public education in Williamstown and Lanesborough. After dispensing with the business, a couple of members closed the meeting with their thoughts on the committee's work, which included helping lay the groundwork for November's

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Williams Hosts South Science Building Open House

By Tammy Daniels, iBerkshires Staff
08:06PM / Monday, June 18, 2018

WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Dozens of residents and member of the Williams College community made their way through the brightly lit halls of the new South Science Building last week. The $66 million structure that's been rising off Walden Street for nearly two years was opened to the public for two hours last Wednesday evening. Faculty — and some students — are already making themselves at home in the building, which is still full of moving boxes as biology, chemistry, physics and geosciences relocate from the Bronfman Science Center. "This building has been a lot of years in the planning with a wonderful team,

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Berkshire Country Day School Holds Grade 8 Awards Ceremony

04:00PM / Monday, June 18, 2018

LENOX, Mass. — Berkshire Country Day School, an independent school for students in preschool through ninth grade, celebrated its seventh- and eighth-graders at an awards and end-of-year closing ceremony held Wednesday, June 13. Certificates for completing the course of study through eighth grade were presented to Aurora Benson, Symaira Elliott, Donald Miller, and Will St. John, all of Pittsfield; Abbey Boyd of West Stockbridge; Anje Capala of Spencertown, N.Y.; Halle Davies of Lenox; Esme Lazar and Ryan Sonsini, both of Great Barrington; Jamie McDonnell of Old Chatham, N.Y.; Clara Mollerus of Otis; Keely O'Gorman of Lee; Alex Rodriguez-Benjamin and Sean Sylbert, both

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BCC Announces Spring Semester Dean's List

02:28PM / Monday, June 18, 2018

PITTSFIELD, Mass. — Berkshire Community College has announced its spring 2018 dean's List.

To be eligible for the list, full-time students must have declared a major; completed a minimum of 12 non-repeated, traditionally graded credit hours during the spring semester; and achieved a 3.250 to 3.749 grade point average for honors, or a 3.750 to 4.000 grade point average for high honors. Part-time students are eligible for the list if they meet the same requirements, except that their credit hours may have been completed during the fall and spring semesters of one academic year.

Alexandria T. Brandon, Justin N. Kaczowski, Laurie A. McArthur, Sonia M. McWhirt, Kelsy M. Pero

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BArT Announces Fourth Quarter Honor Roll

02:21PM / Monday, June 18, 2018

ADAMS, Mass. — Berkshire Arts & Technology Charter Public School has announced the students who made honor roll for the fourth quarter of the 2017-18 school year.

Students who earned 80 percent or above in all of their classes received the distinction of "Honors." Students who earned 90 percent or above in all of their classes received the distinction of "High Honors."

Academic courses at BART are aligned with the Massachusetts State Curriculum Frameworks for the appropriate grade level and include all standards deemed necessary for a complete, college-preparatory, middle and high school education.

Addison Chen, Terra Lim, Joseph McGovern, Jonathan Nondo,

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