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Language-based detection of depression with machine learning: systematic review and meta-analysis - npj Digital Medicine
Abstract Early detection of depression is critical for timely intervention. Natural language processing (NLP) and machine learning (ML) approaches have increasingly been used to automatically detect depression from text data, yet evidence regarding their performance remains limited. We systematically reviewed and meta-analyzed studies applying NLP and ML to identify depression from spoken or written language.
WCMA curator discusses Jewish themes in Sol LeWitt’s art
Last week, Professor of Art History at UMass Boston andcurator of the Williams College Museum of Art (WCMA) exhibition Strict Beauty: Sol LeWitt Prints David S. Areford gave a lecture at WCMA. The talk aimed to draw connections to Jewishness in the oeuvre of Sol LeWitt, a pioneer of conceptual art who was famous for producing a vast collection of pieces across various mediums, often mixing vibrant colors with precise lines, shapes, and angles.
Captain’s Corner: Rachel Neugart ’22
Team: Softball Hometown: Cold Spring, Minn. Residence: Lambert Major: Psychology and English When did you start playing softball? I probably started playing softball competitively for the first time when I was 10, but I played little league baseball from [ages] 5 to 9. And then before that, I had a bat in my hand by the time I could walk. I was one of those kids whose first gifts were a tee and one of those giant orange bats. Who are your idols?
As students struggle with mental health, unprecedented demand for therapy overwhelms IWS
Amid a nationwide crisis in student mental health, a Record survey found that students at the College are facing significant mental health challenges this semester, while the College has struggled to keep up with unprecedented demand for mental health services.
College embarks on fully in-person semester, but not without hiccups
The College welcomed students back this month for the first fully in-person semester since before the pandemic, entering a moment that President Maud S. Mandel called “precious and also precarious” in her Sept. 9 letter to the community. Though COVID-19 rates have remained low, the first few weeks have not been without complications, especially in the realms of dining and housing.
Even Psychiatrists Hate the Chemical Imbalance Model
This is a guest post by Nigel Jaffe, who studies clinical psychology. He hopes to help save it from itself. THIS IS A FREE VERSION OF A PAID POST. TO READ THE REST, SUBSCRIBE Prescription drug ads are as predictable as they are pervasive. Their formula, deployed via print ads, TV commercials, and subway billboards, is simple.
Even Psychiatrists Hate the Chemical Imbalance Model
This is a guest post by Nigel Jaffe, who studies clinical psychology. He hopes to help save it from itself. Prescription drug ads are as predictable as they are pervasive. Their formula, deployed via print ads, TV commercials, and subway billboards, is simple. First, they call out a common emotional problem—irritability, worry, mental fatigue—before rep…
College refreshes visual identity, students push back with memes
Nigel Jaffe and Tali Natter February 5, 2021 Goodbye, #FDCC09. Hello, #FFBE0A. Chief Communications Officer Jim Reische and Associate Vice President for Communications Meike Kaan announced on Wednesday that the Office of Communication has updated the College’s visual identity. The change will replace and expand the official standards governing the College’s brand, from colors to typefaces, and from letterheads to the cherished Ephelia logo.
Artist Otherwise Known As: Helene Ryu ’22
Arts Student Profiles I don’t recall exactly how my view of Helene Ryu ’22 changed when she started painting distorted portraits of her own mutilated face. For most of her friends and family, though, Ryu said her more vivid pieces tend to come as a bit of a shock. “It surprises them that a lot of the stuff that I make ends up being kind of dark and violent,” she said.
Mandel outlines College’s commitment to racial justice, faces renewed criticism – The Williams Record
After more than two weeks of pressure from students, alums and other members of the College community, President Maud S. Mandel released on Friday an outline of actionable steps the College will take to fight racial and social injustice. The initiatives are divided into four categories — people, philanthropy, partnerships and programming — and Mandel said each will continue to develop in the coming weeks and months.
College faces criticism for response to national BLM movement as Amherst establishes matching campaign – The Williams Record
News By Jeongyoon Han, Editor-in-Chief and Nigel Jaffe, Executive Editor | June 7, 2020 At a time when predominantly white institutions across the nation are responding to widespread protests denouncing police brutality and anti-Black racism, members of the Williams community — particularly students and alums — are placing increased pressure on the College administration to hold itself accountable for what they see as its delayed and limited support of the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement.
Ninja Sex Party’s Brian Wecht ’97 talks rings, physics and musical comedy
Nigel Jaffe and Tali Natter May 13, 2020 When Brian Wecht ’97 lost his high school class ring while living in Gladden his junior year, he didn’t think much of it. The ring was bulky and ornately carved, with a hefty green gemstone embedded in the center — “definitely not my vibe,” Wecht said — and he was content to forget about it.
Record Recs: (Free) ’50s classics, Westerns old & new
Arts With less than a month until classes end, students may be wondering how they’ll pass the time without lectures to fast-forward through and Zoom seminars to attend. If you’re one of them, you’re in luck — the College Libraries provide access to Swank, a free movie service that makes hundreds of classic titles available at the push of a button. Every week until the end of the semester, two Record editors will each choose five movies: four old favorites and one new discovery.
Adam Schlesinger ’89, co-founder of Fountains of Wayne and acclaimed songwriter, dies at 52
Adam Schlesinger ’89, an award-winning songwriter who co-founded the power pop band Fountains of Wayne with Williams classmate Chris Collingwood ’89, died on Wednesday in Poughkeepsie, N.Y. He was 52. The cause of death was complications from COVID-19, according to The New York Times. Although Schlesinger’s most famous song was Fountains of Wayne’s 2003 hit “Stacy’s Mom,” he wrote a wide array of successful pieces, both for his own bands and for movies, musicals and television.
IWS adjusts offerings as pandemic poses challenges to mental health – The Williams Record
News By Nigel Jaffe, Executive Editor | April 1, 2020 Beginning April 6, Integrative Wellbeing Services (IWS) will provide remote transition planning sessions in which students can work with therapists to assess their current or anticipated need for mental health care moving forward and develop a plan for accessing support, through either providers in their home community or teletherapy platforms offered by the College.
Faculty, staff couples share their stories
Features We’ve all heard the famous statistic: since the College became coed in the early 1970s, more than one in five married or partnered alums are in an all-Eph couple, according to Williams Magazine.
Anthropology class explores issues of “Town and Gown” – The Williams Record
Features By Nigel Jaffe, Features Editor | 6 hours ago Since 2015, Professor of Anthropology David Edwards and journalist Christopher Marcisz have co-taught “Town and Gown: Investigating the Relationship of College and Community.” We sat down to discuss past projects, development on Spring Street and the differences between anthropology and journalism. Nigel Jaffe: What inspired you to start teaching this course? Christopher Marcisz: It sprang up pretty organically.
Profiles of Presidents Past: Morty Schapiro
For Morty Schapiro, the best part of being president of the College was entry Snacks. “I did Snacks every Sunday night for nine years,” he said.
Hitched and living on Hoxsey: Lara and Jason Meintjes ’22 settle into life at the College
“Imagine yourself in a tutorial at Williams,” one of the questions on the College’s application reads. “Of anyone in the world, whom would you choose to be your partner in the class, and why?” For Lara and Jason Meintjes ’22, the answer was obvious. When the married couple applied to Williams as transfer students, they wrote their application essays about each other. This fall, they started at the College as sophomores. Their path to Williams was a winding one.
Profiles of Presidents Past: Adam Falk
In 2010, Adam Falk, then dean of the Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts and Sciences at Johns Hopkins, had his video interview with Williams’ presidential search committee. That same year, a swine flu pandemic broke out across the world. “I was actually recovering from this flu epidemic and [was] kind of amazed that I was coherent,” Falk said. Swine flu aside, the interview went well, and Falk became president later that year. Before then, Falk had spent almost his entire life in academia.
Behind the Uniform: Francis “Frenchie” Fredette
Francis E. Fredette Jr. – better known as Frenchie – has worked in the food service industry for 48 years and continues to love every second of it. He has one of the most vibrant personalities I know, and his buoyant sense of humor and lively anecdotes have been a highlight of my time working at Driscoll.
Campus Cribs: Sage B301 is the ‘God Quad’ of first-year housing
When we arrived at Sage B301, what immediately struck us was not the array of signs on the door reading “GOD QUAD” in bold italics. Nor the model of the three-mast German warship atop the bookshelf. Nor the life-size cutout of a man dressed like James Dean and covered in Post-Its containing quotations from members of Sage AB. It was the barking.
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