Wendy Williams has been a professor at Cornell for 26 years, studying real-world intelligence (and how to increase it), the culture of academic institutions (and how they are changing), and women’s and girls’ experiences and career trajectories in science. She is especially interested in helping underrepresented youth pursue science careers. Wendy was a House Fellow beginning in Fall 2008 when Keeton first opened, and she has been active in the Keeton community ever since. Her three daughters with Professor Stephen Ceci have all lived in Keeton: Nicole as a GRF in 2008-9 (B.S. & M. Eng. 2009), Sterling in 2018-2020 (B.A. Psychology & College Scholar 2021, now a Cornell Ph.D. student in Computing & Information Science), and Wynne, a junior majoring in Psychology & College Scholar, and Vice President of the Cornell Chorus.

As a faculty advisor to the A Cappella program, Wendy has brought musical per¬formances by the Hangovers, After Eight, Nothing But Treble, and other groups to dinners at Keeton. As one of his Cornell sponsors and hosts since 1998, she brought the actor John Cleese to speak and show one of his films to Keeton resi¬dents. She also gives occasional talks on her own work, and leads Keeton ice skating trips every winter.