Graduate Studies Advisory Board

The Graduate Studies Advisory Board is a group of educational, corporate, and community leaders with a commitment to enhancing the quality of graduate education in Arts & Sciences at William and Mary.

By increasing graduate funding to provide competitive stipends and research and travel awards, the Graduate Studies Advisory Board is playing an important role in the overall development of W&M’s graduate programs in Arts & Sciences. Since 2005, the Board has recognized outstanding graduate research by funding the Distinguished Dissertation Awards and Distinguished Master’s Thesis Awards. In addition, the Board has noted that encouraging outstanding applicants to accept W&M’s offer of admission is vital to the success of W&M’s graduate programs. Board members fund Graduate Studies Advisory Board Fellowships that are offered to exceptional prospective students who are applying for admission.

The missions of the Graduate Studies Advisory Board are:

• Development/fundraising to increase graduate Arts & Sciences financial resources
• Assisting in the building of a graduate Arts & Sciences community
• Enhancing professional development opportunities for graduate students
• Advocating for graduate Arts & Sciences within the W&M community

The Board meets twice per year in Williamsburg and has three subcommittees that continue the work of the Board between these meetings: the Development and Communications Committee, the Student Professional Development Committee, and the Nominations Committee.

Graduate Studies Advisory Board Officers

President: Larry McEnerney
Vice-President: Cynthia Morton
Past President: Patricia Barry
Chair, Student Professional Development Committee: Diane Alleva Cáceres
Chair, Development and Communications Committee: Ann Koch

Board Member Biographies

Patricia (Patti) Barry ’63 BS Chemistry
Patricia Barry recently retired after serving five years as the founder and Executive Director of the Merck Institute of Aging & Health and as a Clinical Professor of Medicine at the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences.  Dr. Barry earned a BS in Chemistry from the College of William and Mary, received her M.D. degree and her postgraduate training in Internal Medicine at the University of South Florida College of Medicine, and obtained her M.P.H. from Boston University. Prior to assuming her position at the Merck Institute, she was Professor of Medicine, Chief of the Geriatrics Section of the Department of Medicine, and Director of the Gerontology Center of Boston University.  She is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians and the American Geriatrics Society and a former member of the Board of Directors of the Fund for William and Mary.  Her home is in Gloucester Point, Virginia, with her husband Dr. Marshall Barry, W&M Class of ’61.

John D. Burton ’89 MA History, ’96 Ph.D. History
John Burton is the Director of the American Studies Program at DePaul University in Chicago, IL.  As a graduate student at the College of William & Mary, he worked for the Department of Archaeological Research for Colonial Williamsburg.  Dr. Burton teaches the core course for the DePaul American Studies Program, as well as a course entitled Social and Cultural History of the U.S.  He is studying American Loyalists in the Bahamas and co-directs the DePaul Bahamas Study Abroad Program.

Diane Alleva Cáceres ’87 BA Economics, ’89 MA Government
Diane Alleva Cáceres is Founder and Managing Director of her international trade, investment and enterprise development consulting firm, Market Access International, Inc. in Smyrna, GA founded in 1997.  She brings 17 years of experience providing technical assistance at the macro and micro level to governments and the private sector in core practice areas ranging from market and industry research and strategy development to financial mobilization to specific trade and investment-related activities in support of economic development goals of both regions and countries worldwide.  For instance, she continues to work with the Canadian government to encourage business partnerships between the Atlantic Provinces and the US; with member countries of the European Commission to further innovation and trade ties with the U.S.; and on economic growth and poverty reduction projects supported by the U.S. Agency for International Development.  After graduation, she worked in a variety of international trade and investment positions in Washington DC, including several years with the Australian Trade Commission.  She was also selected as a Rotary Scholarship recipient to study in France for a year.  She was elected as a Life Member to the Council on Foreign Relations in 2002.  As a student at W&M, Ms. Alleva Caceres was co-captain of the swim team.

D. Nelson Daniel ’90 BS Geology & Economics
Nelson Daniel is an attorney with the law firm Taylor, Porter, Brooks & Phillips in Baton Rouge, Louisiana where he specializes in environmental law.  He earned his Juris Doctor at the T.C. Williams School of Law at the University of Richmond.  Prior to law school, Mr. Daniel worked as an environmental consultant in Roanoke and Blacksburg, Virginia.  Following his graduation from the College of William & Mary, Mr. Daniel served in the United States Army and was stationed at Ft. Carson, Colorado.  He left active service to attend graduate school and earned an MS in Geology from Indiana University.  Nelson and his wife Nicole (also a graduate of William & Mary) have two sons and live in Baton Rouge.

David R. Daugherty ’69 BS Biology, ’71 MA Biology
David Daugherty is a psychiatrist with Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN. He joined the staff there in 1996 with his primary interests being the development of innovative evaluation and treatment methods, electronic communication with patients, consultation liaison psychiatry, and adult attention deficit disorder. After completing his medical school and psychiatric training at Mayo, Dr. Daugherty and his medical school classmate spouse, also a psychiatrist, joined the faculty of the University of Tennessee Medical School in Memphis where he was a part of the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.  Three years later, he joined his wife in the formation of Chamberlin Clinic, a private group psychiatric practice in Memphis.  After twelve successful years, they both returned to Rochester to join the staff of Mayo Clinic   At W&M, he played basketball through four rebuilding years and was treasurer of Kappa Sigma.

Ann L. Koch ’83 BA Religion
Ann Koch is the Senior Associate Director of Foundation Relations at Johns Hopkins University.  She earned a BA in Religion (’83) from William & Mary and her MA in Humanities (’92) from the University of Chicago.  She has nearly 20 years of fund raising experience in higher education and has been with Johns Hopkins for over 11 years.  She also has held development positions at the University of Chicago and the Newberry Library (Chicago).  Koch previously served on the Friends of the Swem Library Board for six years.  She currently serves on the boards of the Roland Park Library Initiative and the Carroll Museums in Baltimore.

Peter Martin ’71 MS Physics, ’72 PhD Physics
Peter Martin is currently an adjunct faculty member of the Physics Department at Virginia Commonwealth University.  He spent 27 years in industrial research and management with Altria Inc. in both the USA and Switzerland, and took early retirement in 1998.  Dr. Martin has since helped develop a physics course for non-scientists at VCU and spent a year teaching at the VCU campus in Qatar.  He grew up in England, earned a B.A. and M.A. from Cambridge University in Mathematics and Physics, and a Diploma in Education from Oxford University, and came to America to teach in 1965.  Entering William & Mary in 1966, he completed his graduate degrees in experimental nuclear physics and helped coach the very first William & Mary soccer team.  He has been a member of the Board of Directors of the International School of Lausanne and the Editorial Advisory Board of “Filtration News”, and has recently developed a mini-course in Science for the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at the University of Richmond.   Dr. Martin and his wife, Patricia, live in Richmond, and have two grown sons who both live abroad.

Larry McEnerney ’76 BA English & History
Larry McEnerney is the Director of University Writing Programs at the University of Chicago. He teaches in the Graduate Divisions, the Graduate School of Business, the Law School, post-graduate institutes, and the undergraduate College.  He consults for writing worldwide to professional firms, universities, academic societies, businesses, and government agencies. He is also a principal in UpFront Publications and the president of Clarison, Inc., a developer of internet-based programs for writing.  Larry and Cathe (College of W&M '75) have three children, the youngest of whom, Kate, is W&M Class of 2008.

George Miller ’67 BS Physics, ’69 MS Physics, ’72 PhD Physics
George Miller is the tenth Director of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, a position he assumed in March 2006 after a distinguished career in national security work at the Laboratory.  While serving as Director, Dr. Miller is responsible for the management of the Laboratory and will lead the institution through its transition to a new management contractor.  Throughout his tenure, Dr. Miller has tackled a variety of management and scientific challenges in the interest of national security, particularly nuclear weapons.  Dr. Miller holds memberships in the American Physical Society, Sigma Pi Sigma - National Physics Honor Society, and the California Council on Science and Technology and is Chairman of the Science and Technology advisory panel to the Commander of the United States Strategic Command.

Brian J. Morra ’78 BA History
Brian J. Morra is the Sector Vice President for Business Development & Strategic Planning in Northrop Grumman Corporation's Electronic Systems Sector.  In this role he is responsible for the sector's global  marketing operations, long-range planning, and all investment planning and oversight.  He received an M.P.A. from the University of Oklahoma (1984) and M.A. in government and national security studies from Georgetown University (1987).  Mr. Morra is also a graduate of the U.S. Air Force's Air Command and Staff College and has been an adjunct faculty member at the Joint Military Intelligence College and at Air Command and Staff College.  He served a total of 15 years in the United States Air Force - active and reserve components.  Mr. Morra has served on the Foundation Board of Coppin State University (an HBCU), on the board of directors of CEA, Inc. (an Australian high tech company), and as a long-standing member of the system engineering advisory board at the University of Virginia's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.

Cynthia Morton ’77 BS Biology
Cynthia Morton is the William Lambert Richardson Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Biology and Professor of Pathology at Harvard Medical School, Associate Director of the Harvard-Partners Center for Genetics and Genomics, and Co-Director of the Biomedical Research Institute and Director of Cytogenetics at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston.  She received her Ph.D. in Human Genetics from the Medical College of Virginia in Richmond.  Dr. Morton is a past member of the Board of Directors of the American Board of Medical Genetics where she served as Secretary, Treasurer and Chair of the Accreditation Committee.  She was the Chair of the Molecular Genetic Pathology Policy and Exam Committees of the American Board of Medical Genetics and the American Board of Pathology.  She served as a member and Chair of the Board of Scientific Counselors of the National Institute of Deafness and Other Communication Disorders.  Currently she is a member of the Counsel of Scientific Trustees of the Deafness Research Foundation and serves as a member of the Board of Regents of the National Library of Medicine.  Dr. Morton is the Editor of The American Journal of Human Genetics.  As a student at W&M, she was active in music, as well as a resident advisor, orientation aide, Kappa Kappa Gamma social sorority, and a member of Mortar Board.

Bradley (Lee) Roberts ’70 MS Physics, ’74 PhD Physics
Bradley Roberts was a Research Associate at the Rutherford High Energy Laboratory (England) 74-76, Research Associate at the MIT Laboratory for Nuclear Science 76-77, and joined the faculty at Boston University in September 1977, where he is now Professor of Physics.  He served as Associate Chairman of the Physics Department from 79-81, Chair of the Brookhaven National Laboratory AGS Users' Group 89-90, Member of the BNL AGS Program Advisory Committee 88-91, and Co-Spokesperson (co-leader) of the muon g-2 experiment at BNL from 1989 to present.  Dr. Roberts’ research has been funded by the National Science Foundation continuously since 1978.  He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, and a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and Sigma Xi.  He received a BS in physics from the University of Virginia in 1968.

Robert (Rob) Saunders '00 BS Physics
Robert Saunders was selected to serve as the 2008-09 Guenther Congressional Science Fellow after completing science policy internships on the North Carolina Board of Science and Technology (2006-08) and the Duke University Office of Federal Relations (2004). He received a PhD in Physics from Duke University and was a postdoctoral fellow in Radiology at Duke from 2006-08.  As President of the Duke Graduate and Professional Student Council from 2003-2005, he worked on student health insurance, childcare, and transportation policies.  He was later elected to serve on the Duke University Board of Trustees.  While a graduate student at Duke, he was honored with the William J. Griffith University Service Award (2006) and the Samuel DuBois Cook Student Award for Community Development (2004).  As an undergraduate at the College of William & Mary, he received the Benjamin Ewell Award (2000) for exemplifying a liberal arts education through his activities as well as his studies.

William (Bill) Tropf '68 BS Physics
William Tropf is recently retired Head of Missile Engineering at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory.  This work spanned missile development from concept through test, principally for Naval air defense and ballistic missile defense.  His technical specialty is optics and especially optical properties of materials.  He has contributed chapters to several standard references including the Handbook of Optical Constants and the Optical Society of America's Handbook of Optics.  Dr. Tropf received his Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Virginia.  He lives in Highland, Maryland where he is active in the Boy Scouts, The Plumbing Advisory Board of Howard County, and the Columbia Foundation charity.

Edwin Watson II ’68 BA History, ’70 MA History
Edwin Watson is the President and CEO of the Fredericksburg Area Museum.  He has worked at a number of museums including Tryon Palace in NC as chief curator for two years, Kansas City Museum for two years, Virginia Museum of Transportation for three years, and Belle Grove Plantation for three years before moving to Fredericksburg in 1986.  He teaches history as an adjunct faculty member at the University of Mary Washington and Germanna Community College.

Emeritus Members

James  Baroody '68 MS Physics

Sherry Manning ’67 MS Math

Ronald J. Monark ’61 BA Economics

Maciek Sasinowski ’93 MS Physics, ’95 PhD Physics

Kumiko (Jean) Takeuchi ’76 MA Chemistry