Jefferson Wise, a recent graduate of Buckingham County High School in Buckingham, Virginia, is the recipient of the Harriett Pittard Beales Scholarship at William & Mary for the academic year 2017-2018.
2016-2017 News
From June 19-23, the Greater Williamsburg Women's Association and W&M's Muscarelle Museum of Art collaborated on the Cultural Arts Experience. Thirty middle school students attended.
Joey Ernest ’17 and Cosmo Cothran-Bray ’20 are serving as interns with the Young Shakespeare Camps while playing roles in "Hamlet" this summer in a co-production by the Theatre for Humanity of New York and the Virginia Shakespeare Festival.
PhD student Lauren Bridges gives a shout out to W&M on local TV
Jean Shuler ’63 has hiked to the top of Mt. Whitney, run marathons in London and Barcelona and explored Machu Picchu and Cuzco.
Terra Alpha Investments advocates for companies to adopt environmentally smart practices.
Conservation partners are celebrating the first successful breeding of the endangered red-cockaded woodpecker within the Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge.
Students experimented with various synthesizers available in the Music Library as part of Christopher DeLaurenti’s summer Introduction to Computer Music and Electroacoustics class.
It's the second year in a row Christian Cargill and Regan Rome have been so honored, with Rome also winning the award after the fall cross-country season.
Twitter may be quicker, but when it comes to matters of utmost international importance, W&M Government Professor Marcus Holmes says nothing can beat good old-fashioned face-to-face interaction between world leaders.
Natoya Haskins will become co-director of the William & Mary Undergraduate Research Experience program in July.
W&M Linguistics alumni Rachael Tatman and Ethan Roday recently earned a PhD and MS, respectively, from the University of Washington.
Ten undergraduate student composers ended their Spring 2017 semester with a three-day Composers Laboratory, joining with faculty and the guest ensemble Mind on Fire to workshop and then present their original compositions in concert.
A recent William & Mary physics Ph.D.is honored with Best Thesis award.
David Pratt, a Ph.D. candidate in American studies at W&M, argues gender bias and hard-drinking fictional detectives like Mike Hammer influenced the behavior of American men for 50 years.
Professor Simon Stow's book, American Mourning, published by Cambridge University Press.
Graduation photos from the 2017 Psychology Department Diploma Ceremony.
Jefferson Science Associates, LLC, announced today that William & Mary physicist Charles Perdrisat is a co-recipient of the 2017 Outstanding Nuclear Physicist Prize.
Andreas Stathopoulos is part of a collaboration that aspires to simulate the building blocks of matter on some of the biggest computers ever made.
2016-17 has been a stellar year for the William and Mary English Department, with multiple faculty members winning various awards and named professorships. Recipients of these honors range from the younger faculty members to the more seasoned professors, all rewarded for their dedication and innovation inside as well as outside the classroom.
Joel Levine, research professor in William & Mary’s Department of Applied Science, is being honored for a NASA career that spans four decades.
Total of 23 Film and Media Studies Students graduated on May 13th 2017!!!
Adam Lerner, class of 2012, has won the Porter Ogden Jacobus Fellowship, Princeton University’s top honor for graduate students.
Total of 27 Global Studies students graduated on May 13th 2017!!!
Barbara J. King is the author of "Personalities on the Plate: The Lives & Minds of Animals We Eat," a sampling of the characteristics of the animals eaten by humans and an exploration of some of the reasons why vegans, vegetarians and reducetarians resist the temptations of eating flesh.
The Global Education Office has been trying to increase the number and diversity of students studying abroad.
The Diploma Ceremony for the class of 2017 was held in the front Wren Yard on Sunday, May 14, 2017 at 1:30 PM. A glorious day of sunshine and warmth greeted faculty, some 130 economics grads, and their proud families.
Elizabeth Harbron and Kristin Wustholz both are color specialists in William & Mary’s Department of Chemistry, so it’s natural that they would collaborate to produce a new course they’ve titled Color, Light, & Chemistry.
This year Matthew Adan was honored with the "Major of the Year" award at the Kinesiology & Health Sciences department's graduation ceremony.
Next steps are taking shape for the new Arts Quarter at William & Mary.
The scholarships are awarded to sophomores and juniors nationwide who are committed to careers in the environment, Native health care or Tribal public policy.
Celebrating the graduation of the Class of 2017!
Two recent posts from Prof. Marcus Holmes and a colleague.
Shelle Butler is going to Amsterdam this summer to work with some of the world’s most highly valued works of art.
The following awards were presented during Commencement ceremonies on May 13, 2017.
Congrats to the 2017 grads!
Lorraine Pettit graduates Saturday with degrees in government and French and Francophone Studies, research trips to South Africa and France on her resume, and campus memories to savor.
A William & Mary physicist is the lead author on a paper describing the first experimental result from the newly upgraded Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility at the U.S. Department of Energy's Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility.
The top prize for the best article published in "The Monitor," the College of William and Mary's highly regarded journal of international relations was awarded to the same student, by two separate selection bodies in a double-blind procedure.
Kevin Kay ’17 couldn’t decide which part of his double major of music and physics he would pursue after graduating from William & Mary, until the answer was made perfectly clear.
Eight William & Mary ROTC cadets will be commissioned as officers in the U.S. Army during a May 12 ceremony on campus.
Three faculty members have been recognized with the Arts & Sciences award for teaching excellence.
Two Arts & Sciences faculty members were recently recognized for their service to their colleagues and the College.
A total of $97,776 has been dedicated to sustainability projects around campus.
Neal Courter began suffering from depression as a sophomore at W&M, and left school. He returned to finish two degrees and earn acclaim as one of the nation's top eight senior gymnasts.
People have been using these portage routes since the stone age. Mallory Moran is using a Canadian Fulbright Fellowship to pick up their story.
Celebrating a semester of successful undergraduate Honors theses completions.
The personal papers of William & Mary Chancellor and former U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates ’65, L.H.D. ’98 are now open to researchers and the public.
The pursuit of education has taken QuynhNhu Phan '17 around the world.
Colleen Truskey '17 has been selected as the student speaker for Commencement on May 13, in Kaplan Arena.
Military, government and academic experts regarding the United States’ Armed Forces spoke to a crowd of about 100 at the second annual All-Volunteer Force Symposium April 27 at William & Mary’s Sadler Center.
Anne Charity Hudley is one of the authors of "The Indispensable Guide," along with Cheryl Dickter and Hannah Franz.
The funding she'll receive is aimed at helping her, and 64 other grad students from across the country, finish their dissertations. About 1,000 people apply.
The gift will fund endowments and need-based fellowships/internships, among other priorities, in William & Mary's Institute for the Theory & Practice of International Relations and Public Policy Program.
The Food Truck for the Physics Mind paid a welcome visit to William & Mary yesterday.
Christopher Freiman, associate professor of philosophy at William & Mary, recently was compelled to write about his opinion on Americans’ obligation to allow immigrants the advantages of living in the United States.
This recurring feature highlights faculty members from William & Mary who are quoted in the national and international media.
W&M students at Swem Library are helping transcribe the thousands of royal documents being released to the public online.
W&M maintained its exceptional track record with the Fulbright program with 12 grads heading abroad for the 2017-18 academic year.
Their coursework finished, W&M pending graduates celebrate the Last Day of Classes by ringing the Wren Bell. There's more to it than you know.
Samantha Boateng is the 2017 recipient of the Concord Traveling Scholarship for Creative Writers.
Science and art are colliding on the William & Mary campus as part of a performance that will be staged this spring. Aura Curiatlas Physical Theatre is developing its production of “A Life With No Limits,” nspired by the work of astrophysicist Stephen Hawking and will perform the Virginia premiere of the show at the Kimball Theatre May 6-7.
W&M hosted a conference April 21-22 addressing the role higher education can play in increasing social mobility in America.
Corey D.B. Walker, a scholar, author and college dean, will return to Virginia Union University to lead the Samuel DeWitt Proctor School of Theology, where he once studied for the ministry, effective July 1, 2017.
The Department of Music is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Lauron Kehrer to the faculty beginning in August 2017.
A William & Mary scientist has a role in an upcoming episode of the PBS program Frontline.
Twenty talented and trailblazing professors from William & Mary have been selected to receive the 2017 Plumeri Award for Faculty Excellence.
Edward Snowden spoke via webcast to a full house in the Sadler Center’s Commonwealth Auditorium as part of a student-organized event co-hosted by the campus media council and the Institute for Humane Studies at George Mason University.
Renee Peace, business manager for the biology department, has been awarded the 2017 Charles and Virginia Duke Award.
Participation in the Virginia Neuroscience Initiative will open new opportunities for William & Mary’s neuroscientists.
Martha Mountain '86 brings her professional expertise to serving as guest lighting designer for the theatre department's production of 'Baskerville.'
Follow us here for the next installment in our Faculty Spotlight series, shining a light on our tremendous faculty!
Kyle Lopez '17 submitted 10 poems that dazzled the selection committee, which offered him a full-tuition deal and the chance for a Master of Fine Arts.
On Friday, April 7th 2017, students from the William and Mary Public Policy Program took part in their second policy dialogue of the semester.
Soltis provides a history of the barriers to higher education faced by undocumented students. She then discusses the development of Freedom University in Georgia, founded to help these undocumented students. Soltis outlines the ways that Freedom University promotes social consciousness and commitment to empower students to push for change to higher education policies related to undocumented workers and other groups facing discrimination.
Assistant Professor David Dominique is bringing his innovative views on playing and composing music to students.
Chemistry graduate student Shelle Butler will participate in the NSF IRES program in the Netherlands this summer.
One of Professor Poshyvanyk's papers to be honored at ICPC 2017.
Building a career as an English major? No problem.
Sarah Heins is the 2017 recipient of the John H. Willis Jr. scholarship, which was made possible by a generous donation to the William and Mary English Department by the Willis family.
Awards and prizes earned by Anthropology grad students have been adding up!
According to Clayton J. Cleveland, governments of countries around the world are more likely to work together in joint military operations because the monetary costs of unilateral action are becoming too high and are being viewed as politically inappropriate.
After a 40-year career with the Psychology Department at the College of William & Mary, Professor Nezlek begins his retirement journey.
The W&M Music Department is pleased to announce Dr. Richard Marcus as Assistant Professor of Music and Director of Bands.
Jozef Dudek and his colleagues recently carried out the first complex calculations of a particle called the sigma.
Robert B. Archibald, Chancellor Professor of Economics, retires after 41 years of service!
Zachary Nimmo, a junior and Monroe Scholar at W&M, is one of 240 recipients nationwide from a pool of more than 1,200 applicants.
A new educational studies minor will offer students with various majors a taste of educational research, theory and policy.
This recurring feature highlights faculty members from William & Mary who are quoted in the national and international media.
Combining her interest in anatomy with her talent for drawing, Molly Bryant '18 has found medical illustration to be a perfect mix of medicine and art.
Around one group of people, he seems to be a Democrat. Around another, a Republican. In yet another, a Libertarian. He’s a political chameleon, someone who engages in a type of social shape-shifting in order to blend in with those he is surrounded with, and his behavior is not unusual, according to researchers at William & Mary.
The William & Mary Program in Public Policy will host a daylong symposium April 27 focused on examining the all-volunteer structure of America’s military.
We are pleased to announce Dr. Carrie Dolan and Dr. Iyabo Obasanjo will be joining the faculty in the Fall semester and they will be working within the Public Health concentration.
William McIntosh is living a dream as a science fiction author, spending his days writing, revising and brainstorming new ideas for his stories — some of which may soon be on television.
In the spirit of learning more about the complexities of space exploration, W&M News recently sat down with Eugeniy E. Mikhailov, an assistant professor of physics, to pose a question. Just how long it would take to travel to the planet of Venus, in a car?
Psychology Professor Peter Vishton delivered the lecture, titled “The Illusion of Control: Understanding and Getting More out of Your Unconscious Mind,” on March 22 to a large crowd in ISC 3.
Ph.D. candidate David Ward's work won the Market Access International, Inc., award for “Excellence in Scholarship in the humanities and social sciences.”
Degrees of Separation, a special six-part series on public radio’s With Good Reason, will kick off March 25 with an episode exploring the origins of education in America.
Ann Marie Stock, a longtime campus leader known for her work around internationalization, will be William & Mary’s next vice provost for academic and faculty affairs.
Norman J. Ornstein, a national columnist and best-selling author, is the university’s 2017 Hunter B. Andrews Fellow in American Politics.
Summer Moore, a Ph.D. student, is a recipient of one of two William & Mary Interdisciplinary Awards for Excellence in Research.
For the second year in a row, a team from William & Mary took the top prize in a hackathon sponsored by Dominion Enterprises.
Beverly Thompson (PhD '99) honored at the Black Engineer of the Year Awards.
Senior Lecturer of Africana Studies and Linguistics Iyabo F. Osiapem teaches a class on Rastafari.
Ananda Menon, who is pursuing a master’s degree in W&M’s Department of Biology, is examining the effects of mercury on the sperm of birds.
Nikolas Vann, Applied Science Ph.D. student, is recipient of A&S Graduate Research Symposium Excellence in Undergraduate Mentoring Award.
Researchers at W&M worked on a project that presents what is perhaps the best way yet to model the swirl and snarl of political interactions on Twitter.
William & Mary’s 16th Annual Graduate Research Symposium will be held at the Sadler Center on the William & Mary campus March 24-25.
W&M English Professor Henry Hart new biography of Frost investigates him from a psychological point of view, breaking new ground.
Brodber's talk covers history of African Jamaicans, with attention to colonialism and nationalism; she shares a dramatic pedagogy of Emancipation Day in which Jamaicans from Woodside participated; John-Camara discussed her student group's trip to Woodside.
The Psychology department is hosting a colloquium by W&M alum Dr. Kris Preacher, Professor and Associate Chair of Psychology at Vanderbilt, on March 20, from noon-1pm in Tidewater B, Sadler Center.
William & Mary’s programs in business, education and history made strides in this year’s U.S. News and World Report magazine’s annual rankings of graduate and professional schools.
The two-day event, planned for March 17-18, will feature a keynote address by Lester Spence, associate professor of political science and Africana studies at Johns Hopkins University.
William & Mary students and faculty now have the opportunity to get one step closer to earning a private pilot certificate by attending the on-campus ground school taught by a Federal Aviation Administration-certified flight instructor.
Although America’s social welfare system may be lacking in relative size, it more than makes up for it with its complexities, according to Christopher D. Howard, William & Mary’s Pamela C. Harriman Professor of Government and Public Policy.
Nicole Santiago encourages the viewer to look deeper into her paintings, past the initial impression and into the larger possible messages.
TribeHacks, William & Mary’s annual student-run coding marathon, will move back to Swem Library, the venue of the very first event.
Plans are well underway for a celebration, commemoration and exploration honoring the 100th anniversary of women students at W&M
New class by Eliot Dudik, visiting assistant professor of photography, teaches students the art of bookmaking
The fellowship was created in 1998 by friends of the former state senator and William & Mary alumnus.
William & Mary Sociology Professor Graham Ousey recently co-authored a meta-analysis of studies examining the impacts of immigration on crime rates.
The William & Mary Government Department is proud to announce that Professor Chris Howard recently published his new book, Thinking Like a Political Scientist: A Practical Guide to Research Methods.
Please join the Special Collections’ staff in congratulating Mattie Clear for being accepted into the Library of Congress’ 2017 Junior Fellows Summer Intern Program, a very competitive program that only a select few get to enjoy.
Nine students from Prof. S. Balasundaram's Cultural Anthropology class submitted winning essays in a national competition.
Kinesiology and Health Sciences major Erin Heald '18 and a team of researchers are investigating the impact cambering could have on injuries to runners.
This recurring feature highlights faculty members from William & Mary who are quoted in the national and international media.
William & Mary is one of the country’s top producers of Peace Corps volunteers, according to a report released by the organization today.
Eddy Harris, William & Mary’s 1939 Artist in Residence, shows a different perspective of a seemingly familiar world.
On Friday, February 17th 2017, for their first policy dialogue of the spring semester, students from the William & Mary Public Policy Program traveled to D.C to hear from dc groupspeakers on the topic of defense and national security. As part of this trip they met with a member of the professional staff for the House Armed Services Committee as well as James Phillips, a Senior Research Fellow for Middle East Affairs at the Heritage Foundation and an expert on Middle Eastern terrorism.
Kayla Weldon ’18 will showcase her choreography of "Trinity" when fellow dance students perform it at a dance conference in March.
The lecture, sponsored each semester by Carl and Martha Tack, will be held March 22 at 7 p.m. in the Integrated Science Center (ISC).
The documentary film on the Bosnian War, was shown first at the university on Feb. 21, in part in response to W&M's 20-year-old Bosnia Project. It will continue being shown at other American colleges and universities.
Photos and illustrations illuminating the lives of Buffalo Soldiers during the Philippine-American War are currently on display in Swem Library’s Botetourt Gallery as part of an exhibit organized by the William & Mary Asian & Pacific Islander American Studies program.
Jolene Mafnas '17 takes on the lead role in Jesse Eisenberg's thought-provoking "Asuncion," opening Feb. 28.
Professor of Kinesiology and Health Sciences John Charles came to W&M in 1979 and has made a major contribution to the university and his profession. The National Association for Kinesiology in Higher Education recognized that in January.
The Office of Community Engagement has begun offering courses for students who want to delve into community engagement concepts — and earn academic credit at the same time.
Sofya Zaytseva, Applied Science Ph.D. student, is recipient of A&S Graduate Research Symposium Excellence in Scholarship Award.
Scholarship On Display is a rotating exhibit series showcasing faculty work from academic departments at the College of William & Mary.
Students are exploring business ideas, collaborating and benefiting from the help of faculty and professionals as the new semester started with the Alan B. Miller Entrepreneurship Center up and running.
Caitlin Lewis Smallwood ’88 directs a team of around 50 data scientists, engineers and mathematicians at Netflix in Los Gatos, California.
Dalton Bennett ’10 from The Washington Post spoke to an overflow crowd of 200 students, faculty and local residents on Tuesday, February 14th in Andrews 101.
Matthew Bondy ’17, an International Relations major of William & Mary, received the Best Paper Presented as a Poster Award, among undergraduate presenters, from the Midwest Political Science Association (MPSA).
Anne Charity Hudley has created a series of videos, podcasts and even an app to help teachers better understand and respond to cultural and language variations in STEM classrooms.
Rowan Lockwood, a professor in William & Mary’s Department of Geology, has strung those data pearls together to craft a set of suggestions for the re-oystering of today’s Chesapeake Bay.
After years-long research on the lives, struggles and performance culture of Pakistani “female spirited” transgender communities, known as hijras, Professor Claire Pamment is exploring spaces beyond the gender binary through theatre.
An international collaboration between William & Mary scientists and colleagues at the University of Oxford has discovered that the brown recluse makes extra-strong silk by spinning loops into each strand.
Life of Virginia Professor of Business and Affiliate of the Public Policy Program, Herrington Bryce has written a new book.
Jeffrey Doyon ‘85 donated a cello to the William & Mary Department of Music to repay its loan of one to him during his youth and while he was a student.
Students from the Walsingham Academy recently visited the new greenhouse atop William & Mary’s Integrated Science Center and taking on the role of citizen-scientists.
Alan Braddock, Ralph H. Wark Associate Professor of Art History & American Studies at William & Mary, co-edited, co-wrote the introduction and wrote an essay for the recently-published "A Greene Country Towne: Philadelphia’s Ecology in the Cultural Imagination."
Roessler Discusses Research Experience in second Sudanese civil war in Government Lecture
Here's the next installment of "Faculty Spotlight" - showcasing our amazing faculty!
A new minor in native studies officially began with the opening of the spring semester.
Winner of the 2016 American Studies Association's Critical Disability Caucus Graduate Paper Competition!
Since arriving at W&M in 1986, Zuber has quietly been pivotal to the teaching of writing, the pursuit of collaborative and interdisciplinary inquiry, internationalization and international students and to teaching of film and video production.
The Daily Work of Justice series aims to explore social justice issues by having people share their lived experiences
Thompson, assistant professor of English and American studies, will be recognized at W&M Charter Day on Friday, Feb. 10.
Students in the Musical Theatre Workshop pilot class are working on the 1940s-era musical “Swing Wings.” The class is an experiment this semester at William & Mary, as students develop a new musical.
Hundreds of members of the campus and local communities gathered in the Sunken Garden Thursday for the "No Ban in My Name" rally.
William & Mary Assistant Professor of Government Claire McKinney discusses women in U.S. politics.
Anna Klompen ’17 and Karina Brocco French ’16 made significant discoveries in Jonathan Allen’s lab in William & Mary’s Department of Biology.
This recurring feature highlights faculty members from William & Mary who are quoted in the national and international media.
The first phase of the Georgian Papers Programme – roughly 33,000 digitized documents, including some penned by King George III regarding the American Revolution – will be publicly released and accessible at no cost beginning Saturday, Jan. 28. William & Mary and the Omohundro Institute are the primary U.S. partners on the international project.
William & Mary will present an educational screening of Nate Parker’s “The Birth of a Nation” and two related discussions at the university on Feb. 3.
A well-done, less than 14-minute podcast broadcast by the Flat Hat. Well worth a listen!
Thomas Jefferson's honorary degree diploma, on loan from the Massachusetts Historical Society, will be on view at William & Mary’s Muscarelle Museum of Art at the beginning of February, providing a highlight for the 2017 Charter Day celebration on Feb. 10.
The new semester brings with it a vast array of opportunities for people to enjoy the arts at William & Mary.
Three members of the Class of 2017 receive $3,000 apiece for their work in creative non-fiction, poetry and fiction.
Can the same type of technology Facebook uses to recognize faces also recognize particles?
He’s a Latinist, a chemist, a translator of art history texts and a leading light of Humans of William & Mary. Meet Ben Zhang ’17, this year’s winner of the Jefferson Prize in Natural Philosophy.
The Whole of Government Center of Excellence, a new track within the W&M Master of Public Policy Program, will train civilian and military leaders to think holistically when dealing with issues of national security.
The White House announced Thursday that Thomas Shannon Jr. ’80 will be acting Secretary of State until the Senate confirms President Trump nominee Rex Tillerson for the office.
When you can’t make sense of quantum mechanics, try thinking like a Bayesian.
Daniel Delmonaco, who graduated in December, has been selected to receive William & Mary's 2017 James Monroe Prize in Civic Leadership.
William & Mary archaeologist Neil Norman found some almost unbelievably ancient stone tools at a site on the horn of Africa.
William & Mary alumnus Vince Haley '88 will serve on U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s White House policy team, according to announcement made Jan. 5.
The William & Mary Committee on Sustainability this fall awarded more than $50,000 in funding to faculty, students and staff for sustainability projects on campus and in the local community through Green Fee grants.
Sam Pressler ’15, the founder of Armed Services Arts Partnership, was named among the top 30 social entrepreneurs under the age of 30 by Forbes.
This recurring feature highlights faculty members from William & Mary who are quoted in the media.
The 10th anniversary festival runs Feb. 23-26 and will feature five films never before shown in Virginia and an array of special guests.
Recent research from psychology Professor John Nezlek found that practicing gratitude can lead to less stress and increased happiness.
Mr. Jeffrey Doyon of Arlington recently donated a beautiful cello to the music department
Clemons '89, a former football star, is a member of the W&M Athletics and Canadian Football League halls of fame, and is in heavy demand as a motivational speaker. Longtime coach and administrator Millie West will receive an honorary degree that day.
When Loretta Scott '10 graduated from W&M, she knew just what she wanted to do: move to New York!
Linguistics says good-bye to six of our December Graduates.
A group of William & Mary researchers led by Dan Cristol provided scientific evidence supporting a $50 million settlement resulting from decades-old mercury pollution.
At least three projects have been carried out involving faculty, staff and students and aimed at providing disadvantaged families and seniors a brighter Christmas.
A look back at the William & Mary students awarded national and international scholarships and fellowships in 2016.
A Career Planning forum helps Government students with their thinking about life beyond DOG Street.
William & Mary’s campus got a new look this year in renovation and building projects that updated facilities for 21st century learning and expanded the university’s capabilities.
The Nov. 29 event was sponsored by William & Mary's Institute for Historical Biology, the Africana Studies Program and the university’s Department of Anthropology.
Journal Club, a now-thriving weekly gathering, was founded by two Ph.D. students in the spring as a venue for grad students to share and discuss research.
William & Mary archaeologists were instrumental in bringing to light the lost city that figures so prominently in American history and legend alike.
This recurring feature highlights faculty members from William & Mary who are quoted in the media.
An exhibition at the Muscarelle Museum of Art explores the founding, funding and legacy of the Brafferton, W&M’s second-oldest building.
Successful Defense Completions
Maria Cristina Picardo, Applied Science Research Scientist, gives talk at the 2016 Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience in San Diego, CA.
On Nov. 17, faculty from the William & Mary Department of Government participated in a panel discussion about the election.
William & Mary’s Muscarelle Museum of Art will soon expand significantly as it becomes part of a new, multimillion-dollar, state-of-the-art Center for the Visual Arts.
Neill P. Watson III, 69, professor emeritus of psychology at the College of William & Mary and faculty member for 32 years, died on Nov. 10, 2016, after a short illness.
Prof. John Gilmour appeared on Fox News with Tucker Carlson to discuss the electoral college.
In W&M Professor Christopher DeLaurenti’s computer music class, students used hand-built analog synthesizers to create a chorus of unique noise.
Visiting Assistant Professor Eliot Dudik, who founded the photography program within the department of art and art history at W&M, photographed a Medal of Honor winner for a Veterans Day story in Vanity Fair.
Work is underway to restore the Crim Dell area with native plants.
William & Mary alumna Stephanie Murphy ’00 has become the first Vietnamese-American woman elected to Congress, according to an NBC News article.
Anne Charity Hudley has been elected for a three-year term on the Linguistic Society of America's Executive Committee.
Professor Phil Roessler' latest work on the dynamics of civil war draws interest worldwide.
This survey from Ohio is the last in a series of battleground state voter polling by TargetSmart and William & Mary.
Fifteen students in Professor of Hispanic studies Francie Cate-Arries translation course just subtitled a documentary on the murderous first three days of Gen. Francisco Franco's 40-year dictatorship.
Forty local kids learned the ins and outs of filmmaking in Swem Library on Oct. 22–23. Their self-made films will be screened at the Kimball Theatre Nov. 6.
This fall marks the first semester during which students in the fledgling photography program have their own darkroom and photo classroom.
W&M junior Bezi Yohannes began writing “Secrets of Meynch,” a coming-of-age fantasy adventure story for young adults, at only 11 years old.
A collaborative book-making experiment between visiting assistant professor, Eliot Dudik, and fellow photographer, Jared Ragland, with only 24 hours to complete from beginning to end.
The research, conducted by W&M Professor Jennifer Mellor and Molly Smith ’16, was born from W&M’s collaborative summer research program with EVMS.
A survey of voters in the battleground state of Florida showed among registered Republicans who were early voters in the state that 28 percent had voted for Hillary Clinton.
Associate Professor of German Studies Bruce Campbell enlightened his audience on why, years after World War II, authors of detective pulp fiction remain stranded at the intersection of Nazi memory and literature.
New venue, old friends as Biology Department alumni return for a wonderful reunion.
WMSURE’s Autumn Blast Research, a day-long seminar designed to teach current high school students about W&M’s unique undergraduate research opportunities, took place Oct. 23.
Faculty discuss the results of a poll among fellow International Relations scholars on their expectations for U.S. foreign policy under either a Trump or Clinton presidency.
A W&M assistant professor of psychology and undergraduate student are conducting a study that aims to find out why some people are more likely to develop fears through observation.
This recurring feature highlights faculty members from William & Mary who are quoted in the media.
A new lecture series on a recent trend.
A Q&A with Martin Gallivan on "The Powhatan Landscape: An Archaeological History of the Algonquian Chesapeake"
Brianna Little '17 wins $3,500 prize to be used to have her work published.
W&M Government Professor Paul Manna’s self-made online game features trivia on American presidents and America’s favorite pastime.
Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe spoke to representatives from 14 institutions of higher education in Virginia who gathered at W&M Oct. 17-18 for the Commonwealth Data Analytics and Humanities Summit.
If the known flavors of neutrinos — tau, electron & muon — aren't crazy enough for you, there's the sterile neutrino. Or maybe there isn't.
Every year, the William & Mary Alumni Association honors a select group of outstanding young faculty members.
The Department of Theatre, Speech & Dance at William & Mary has decided to suspend operations of the main performance season of the Virginia Shakespeare Festival for the coming three years.
The Tom W. Bonner Prize, awarded each year by the American Physical Society, is among the top honors a nuclear physicist can receive. The 2017 Bonner Prize goes to a physicist who has been at William & Mary since 1966.
A polling partnership between TargetSmart and William & Mary is producing voter surveys in battleground states leading up to the November Presidential Election.
The Vinyl Institute honored William H. Starnes with the Roy T. Gottesman Leadership Award at the vinyl industry annual meeting recently in Washington, D.C.
The Neuroscience Program is proud of the 2016 Excellence in Neuroscience Award winners
The first installment of a new monthly feature, "Faculty Spotlight," which focuses on the fabulous faculty of Classical Studies!
The manuscript is the same kind of Quran the first Muslims in America — enslaved West Africans — would have used.
Representing the humanities, Prokhorova, a Russian studies and film and media studies associate professor, defeated Marcus Holmes (government), Rowan Lockwood (geology) and Ryan Vinroot (mathematics).
On September 30, the Linguistics Program welcomed members of the Language Conservancy to campus to show their film Rising Voices.
Next week, alumni from around the globe will return to William & Mary to celebrate and reconnect with classmates and their alma mater.
Associate Professor of Philosophy Christopher Freiman is featured on the AEON magazine website, writing about the root of wrongdoing.
Sravan Yeluru '17 and former student Ryan Metzger have developed a mobile app that connects students not through parties and clubs, but through academics.
On Oct. 27, 7 p.m. in Commonwealth Auditorium, Bruce Campbell, associate professor of German studies, examines German pulp fiction in the Tack fall lecture "The Detective is [not] a Nazi."
William & Mary junior and Quapaw tribal member Mackenzie Neal is in Washington, D.C., this week as one of about 100 youth delegates chosen to participate in the Eighth Annual White House Tribal Nations Conference and White House Tribal Youth Gathering.
Reflecting on John McGlennon's decade as Department Chair.
Professor John Parman won the Larry Neal Prize for best article in Explorations in Economic History, and Professor Brian Beach won the Cole Prize for the best article in the Journal of Economic History.
The results of the first survey conducted through William & Mary’s polling partnership with TargetSmart are out today, and they show Hillary Clinton with a three-point lead over Donald Trump among likely voters in Ohio
Homecoming Events planned for Oct 13-16. Good-bye Millington, Hello ISC!
William & Mary Associate Professor Michael Luchs has ingeniously integrated the COLL Curriculum 300 theme of 'well-being' into his class in the Raymond A. Mason School of Business.
Vice Provost for Research Dennis Manos and two faculty members updated William & Mary’s Board of Visitors on progress on its initiative in engineering and design.
ISC 3 came on line for the beginning of the semester and was dedicated at a Sept. 22 ceremony held in conjunction with the fall meeting of the university’s Board of Visitors.
The annual Raft Debate will be held at the Phi Beta Kappa Hall on Oct. 3.
A VIMS marine biologist and W&M undergraduate students collaborate on the Eastern Shore to uncover the secrets behind shark behavior
Theatre Professor Matthew Allar, recent graduate Joseph Biagini and alumna Amy Altadonna – unbeknownst to one another – all ended up in Juneau, Alaska, this August, working on the same play, "Peter and the Starcatcher."
Senior Melissa Commander traveled to Cuba with her grandmother in July after winning the Concord Traveling Scholarship. She wrote about, and presented, that experience at Ewell Hall on Sept. 19.
Professor Ann Marie Stock has been named the inaugural William & Mary Libraries Faculty Scholar.
William & Mary professors working with data firm to produce election surveys in key battleground states.
Brandon Buncher has been awarded a Leadership Scholarship by the Society of Physics Students (SPS). These awards recognize a student's leadership role in their institution's chapter society and encourage the study of physics and the pursuit of scholarship.
All events to be held in the Tucker Theater on the William & Mary Campus. All events are free and open to the public. The Writers Series is made possible by a generous bequest from the late Patrick Hayes, longtime friend of the College. For further information, contact Prof. Chelsey Johnson at cjohnson@wm.edu.
Whether visual art, theatre, dance, music or literature, the new semester brings with it a vast array of opportunities for people to enjoy the arts at William & Mary.
Q&A with Kate Harrigan
Philosophy Professor Paul Davies and Associate Professor Matthew Haug both call on neuroscience and social science in their arguments. Now they are hoping to team up.
It has been 15 years since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, a day that forever changed this country.
Sora Edwards-Thro was featured in Stamps Scholars for her use of technology to promote literacy in Haiti.
Yes. We know the stone isn’t very pretty. But we want to find where it came from so we can buy a bunch more. Why? History.
The third-year program, aimed at all first-year students, seeks to give them a year-long launch pad to a successful college experience.
A sampling of the changes that have taken place since last year.
William & Mary students taking classes in economics, government, international relations and public policy this fall will enjoy updated classrooms and new technology in the newly renovated John Tyler Hall.
Professor McHenry discusses the wage gap between black and white physicians
This recurring feature highlights faculty members from William & Mary who are quoted in the media.
W&M faculty members discuss what each candidate’s presidential priorities may be in national defense, the economy and domestic and foreign policies once elected.
The Virginia Symphony Orchestra will perform a free concert at William & Mary’s Martha Wren Briggs Amphitheatre at Lake Matoaka on Sept. 1.
Curiosity and hope are essential to navigating today’s increasingly complex world, Nicco Mele ’99 told new William & Mary students at Opening Convocation.
Jiajia Chen '18 and Debbie Ramer, an instructor in special education at the William & Mary School of Education, will receive the 2016 President’s Awards for Service to the Community.
The department welcomes 7 new faculty members for the 2016-2017 academic year!
Work is still going on, but the third phase of William & Mary’s Integrated Science Center will be open when classes start. (With one exception.)
For the first time, community members joined new W&M students for the annual SHOW Day.
Anna Fridley joined the campaign of Shelly Laurenzo '11 and helped her win a seat on the Waynesboro school board.
Five projects received funding totaling $20,000 thanks to gifts from Tim Dunn ‘83, Ellen Stofan ‘83, and Andrew ’93 and Sarah Sugerman ’92.
Associate Theatre Professor Elizabeth Wiley has netted some prestigious accolades over the past year for her unique side job narrating audiobooks.
For more than 50 years, M.A. and Ph.D. students have been trained in the art of editing. A new class of apprentices is about to begin its journey.
The Office of Community Engagement funded three internships with community organizations in Williamsburg for the first time this summer.
Visiting Assistant Professor of Religious Studies Mark McLaughlin has found a creative way to bring important religious sites in India into the classroom.
Did you know there are heirloom pigs, just like heirloom tomatoes? Once you’ve bitten into a pork chop from a “Real Pig,” like an Ossabaw Island Hog, you’ll know why.
Nicco Mele is presently director of the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School.
When it comes to geology, few places are as wealthy as the Commonwealth. Just ask the governor.
They say that hindsight is 20/20, but the Class of 2020 will soon bring the future into focus at William & Mary as the freshmen — along with new transfer and graduate students — take their place at the university.
Virginia Foundation for the Humanities (VFH) announces AFST alumni Justin G. Reid as the new director of African American Programs.
Last year’s William & Mary iGEM team won several prizes, including the Grand Prize. This year’s project is going to be bigger. And better. And more useful.
This recurring feature highlights faculty members from William & Mary who are quoted in the media.
The following books by William & Mary faculty members were published in 2016.
They're not unique to William & Mary, but research labs structured along the multi-level model are surprisingly rare outside of William & Mary. You see, we operate in that sweet spot between the small college and the enormous research institute.
Education professor Jeremy Stoddard recently developed a program designed to teach high school kids about political issues and campaigns.
Sadie Meadows '17 is nearing the end of a nine-week internship with the Orange County Department of Social Services. She has written about what she's learned, and taught.
Professor Elizabeth Canuel of William & Mary’s Virginia Institute of Marine Science was awarded the honorary title of Geochemical Fellow at the annual Goldschmidt Conference.
Pioneering oncologist Dr. Vincent DeVita, a William & Mary alumnus, looks back on 50 years — and looks ahead to victory in the war on cancer.
After a 47-year career with the Psychology Department at the College of William & Mary, Professor Ventis begins his retirement journey.
Mark Swingle ’76 was the first employee hired when the Virginia Aquarium & Marine Science Center was nothing more than a tiny office. The aquarium is now celebrating its 30th anniversary.
W&M architecture instructor Ed Pease was part of the two-man team that designed Williamsburg’s Stryker Center.
Local serial drama podcast features more than 30 performers with ties to W&M.
It was a banner year for Virginia’s bald eagles as well as for Virginia’s bald-eagle researchers.
