Ideation Magazine: Summer 2007
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You are reading the fourth issue of Ideation, a look at some of the research and scholarship that's going on at the College of William and Mary.
Global trouble spots: Iraq, North Korea, Latin America, Northern Ireland. They've been there and seen that--and earned the wisdom of experience.
Choice is generally thought to be a good thing. But with any choice comes consequence--intentional or otherwise.
Elizabeth Harbron is describing a bit of choreography: "There are two groups and they start out like this, OK?" she says, right arm out, bent at the elbow, with forearm vertical.
It's a handle Algernon Charles Swinburne would probably relish. He loved to push opposites to the point where they would meet--where pain becomes pleasure, where love becomes hate.
In its brief career, the H.L. Hunley was a success and a failure. Now, years after its resurrection, the Confederate submarine is a mystery and a research project.
Back in the day, Richmond's Jackson Ward was home to a thriving African-American community every bit as vibrant as Harlem or Atlanta's Sweet Auburn.
Classes and projects involving faculty-mentored undergraduate research--such as the one centering around the St. Luke Building--will become more common at William and Mary.
In 2002, when Suzann Matthews joined William and Mary's Board of Visitors, she got on board just in time for a big budget squeeze.
When Margaret Saha met Arnold Beckman, he was nearly 100 years old, but he still had a spark in his eye.
A $500,000 grant is buying a new computer cluster to study the qualities of piezoelectrics--materials that convert energy from one form to another.
Three William and Mary faculty members have secured prestigious year-long fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH).
Nikos Chrisochoides was awarded the 2007 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship in Medicine and Health, one of just two such awards given this year.
Seeds four centuries old, found in a well at Jamestown, are sprouting new clues about the early days of the Jamestown Colony.
In the world of sensors, Bill Bean is a facilitator, a matchmaker, a quarterback. Above all, he is an "honest broker" trying to introduce people working on sensor technology in Hampton Roads to people who can use sensor technology-and to each other.
It's midway through the 400th anniversary year of the founding of Jamestown, and the nation's media are still discovering Werowocomoco.
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