Press Release Archive

The College of William and Mary will test its emergency alert system Wednesday July 2, 2008. The drill will be conducted at 12:15 p.m.

W&M Laycock Center to hold open house.

Two students at the College of WIlliam and Mary were featured on a National Public Radio program discussing how the age of voters and candidates will play a role in the upcoming presidential election.

Researchers from the College of William and Mary have discovered that what’s good for an area’s bird population also is good for people living nearby—especially during an outbreak of West Nile virus.

Mitchell B. Reiss, vice provost for international relations at the College of William and Mary accepted an appointment this month to the Congressional Commission on the Strategic Posture of the United States.

A group of conservationists and eagle researchers recently took a break in a day of review and discussion of the current status of bald eagles to honor Bryan Watts, the center’s director, and Mitchell Byrd, director emeritus, of William and Mary’s Center for Conservation Biology.

His Excellency Dennis Richardson, Australian ambassador to the United States visited the William and Mary campus June 13, 2008.

The 2008 Harriman Fellows are Andrew Blasi from the College of William and Mary, Matthew McGrath from Vanderbilt University and James Nadel from Tufts University.

Shay Jannat, a rising junior at the College of William and Mary, was recently awarded a prestigious Thomas R. Pickering Undergraduate Foreign Affairs Fellowship.

James R. Golden, who has led the College of William and Mary’s economic development efforts since 1999, has been named vice president at the College.  Subject to approval from the William and Mary Board of Visitors, Golden’s new title will be vice president for strategic initiatives.

Gov. Timothy M. Kaine officially signed the statewide higher education bond package Thursday that includes $38.1 million to fully fund construction of the new School of Education at the College of William and Mary.

The College of William and Mary will test its emergency alert system Friday on May 30, 2008.

Elizabeth “Libby” Overbey Omohundro, 91, a former elementary school teacher and friend of the College of William and Mary, died May 19, 2008 in Gloucester, Va.

Michael Blaakman, a rising senior at the College of William and Mary, was recently named a 2008 Gilder Lehrman History Scholar.

Larry I. Palmer Named Director of VCU and William and Mary Health Policy and Law Initiative program announced May 15, 2008.

The presidents of the College of William and Mary and Virginia Commonwealth University today announced a signature collaboration to address one of the most difficult issues facing U.S. communities today – health policy.

Former W&M graduate student Jody Lynn Allen was presented the Thatcher Prize at William and Mary’s commencement ceremony May 11.

Deborah D. Morse, professor of English at the College of William and Mary, was presented with the 2008 Thomas Ashley Graves Jr. Award at the College’s May 11 commencement exercises.