Will Dudley graduated from Williams in 1989 with a double major in math and philosophy. He served as a Junior Advisor, was captain of the water polo team, and received a Herchel Smith Fellowship to study at Cambridge University. After a brief foray into power plant finance, he earned his PhD in philosophy from Northwestern more »

Edward Burger, Professor of Mathematics, began his tenure as Gaudino Scholar in the Fall of 2008. A distinguished author of numerous articles and books, Professor Burger is especially well known for his exceptional pedagogical talents. He is the recipient of numerous honors, including the 2007 Award of Excellence from Technology & Learning magazine, the 2007 more »

Robert Jackall, the Class of 1956 Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs, was named Gaudino Scholar in the spring of 2001. On September 11, 2001, the Dean of Faculty, Professor Thomas Kohut, asked him, as Gaudino Scholar, to organize the College’s intellectual response to the atrocities of that day. For the next three years, Professor more »

At the beginning of Professor Reinhardt’s tenure, the College’s annual convocation program commemorated the life and work of Bob Gaudino. Due to the scheduled speaker’s last-minute illness, President Hank Payne delivered on behalf of Preston Washington, ’71, the speech he had prepared. The remarks focused on seeking intellectual fulfillment over the whole of one’s life more »

In his first year as Scholar, Professor Fleischaker, a professor of philosophy, launched the Gaudino Forums, weekly gatherings during which faculty and students could discuss controversial issues of public concern. The forums were designed to raise matters that were close to the hearts of both students and teachers and which might not be discussed in more »

A member of the Music Department, Professor Bloxam was the first Scholar to come from Division I (Languages and the Arts). Her projects developed along two lines: working to foster experiential education within the curriculum, and organizing students and faculty to undertake extracurricular public art projects that addressed matters of public concern. Professor Bloxam began more »

Professor Beaver, of the Mathematics Department, became the first scholar to focus on the implications of Robert Gaudino’s educational theories for the teaching of the sciences. Immersing herself in the Gaudino materials (especially in Herzog’s “Suitable Uses of the Gaudino Fund”) she decided that an authentically “Gaudinoesque” approach would consider personal and individual experience as more »

An African historian and chair of the African and Middle Eastern Area Program, Professor Spear, like his predecessor William Darrow, emphasized the art of teaching, particularly on a diverse campus. He sponsored workshops on teaching and the curriculum and organized a faculty/student working group to examine in depth the relationship between a variety of pedagogical more »

Professor Darrow, a professor of religion, served as Gaudino Scholar for only one year before accepting a position as Dean. Still, in that period he brought to fruition a proposal for a “Pedagogy Seminar,” recast as a more ambitious “Gaudino Teaching Forum.” It initiated several events, including a challenging workshop with a facilitator from the more »

Professor Tauber used the position of Gaudino Scholar as a stimulator of change on campus. He led the formation of a committee whose self-defined mission was to examine critical aspects of the Williams experience, suggest changes, and see to it that the proposals receive serious consideration. In the course of its eight-semester existence, this “Gaudino more »

Professor Baker, the first Gaudino Scholar, set a model for innovative use of the position, since he felt that Professor Gaudino’s gifts were idiosyncratic and that attempts at imitation were bound to fail, to the detriment of the Memorial Fund’s larger goal. The most prominent and far-reaching of his projects was a Williams-in-Cairo program, which more »