A portion of this issue of Ideation is devoted to the relationship of the College of William and Mary with the Chesapeake Bay.

For the past few years, the water off Gloucester Point has been some of the most analyzed H2O anywhere.

They swim in schools of thousands--maybe hundreds of thousands--but there's some concern that the Chesapeake Bay's population of menhaden may not be all they should be.

On a day warm enough to discourage backyard grilling of hot dogs, students and technicians from the Applied Research Center were standing around a yard in Colonial Williamsburg helping to heat a clay oven up to 600 degrees. Celsius.

That's James Monroe clutching an American flag, standing just abaft the commander-in-chief, in the iconic painting, Washington Crossing the Delaware.

On a pleasant October afternoon, the York River beach at Gloucester Point made an ideal venue for culling and counting several test bags of oysters by staff of VIMS' Aquaculture Genetics and Breeding Technology Center (ABC).

For the past two summers, a particular townhouse in Waynesboro attracted a certain amount of attention from the neighbors. A mix of characters, mostly young, came and went at odd hours.

Numbers of our national bird are soaring, but its outlook in the Bay isn’t all blue skies.

Don't ask her about dinosaurs, because Rowan Lockwood isn't that kind of paleontologist. Dinosaurs have the glamour, but Lockwood prefers to study fossils of clams and other mollusks.

It's scary, that is, to consider how many fish and shellfish must die each year after finding their way into crab pots that are baited, set and then--for one reason or another- left to lie on the bottom of the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries.

Inspired by students and driven by their involvement, Project PLAID is a shining example of the power and benefits of undergraduate research.

Everything changes after the surgeons open your skull.

Sally Price is the Duane A. and Virginia S. Dittman Professor of Anthropology and American Studies.

Adam Potkay, professor of British literature, is in the final throes of his book, The Story of Joy, from the Bible to Late Romanticism, due for publication by Cambridge University Press in 2007.

Will an exhibition in Paris mean vindication for the missing Titian?

George Gilchrist opens an incubator in his lab in Millington and gazes with satisfaction on his stash of Spanish flies.

Bismuth is an element with many uses and many virtues—and a few quirks.

An undergraduate course at William and Mary was singled out in a national study of chemistry courses conducted by the Center for Educational Policy Research (CEPR) on behalf of the College Board.

James F. Harris, Jr., Haserot Professor of Philosophy, directed an NEH Summer Seminar last summer titled "The Principles of Separation of Church and State."

The College of William and Mary has received a $1.8 million grant from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) to support undergraduate science education at the College.

The College of William and Mary has received a RO1 grant totalling $1.437 million from the National Cancer Institute to work in a multidisciplinary collaborative to advance proteomics/bioinformatics technology that ultimately could result in improved sensitivity of cancer detection.