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An undergraduate think tank?
Joseph McClain for Ideation magazine | November 11, 2009

The Project on International Peace and Security engages undergraduates in knotty security issues—and teaches them how to write policy briefs.

 
ChAP: Biofuel from aquatic algae
Joseph McClain for Ideation magazine | November 11, 2009

A number of researchers converge on a way to take algae and make it into fuel on an industrial scale.

 
In praise of post-docs
Erin Zagursky | November 11, 2009

William & Mary's interdisciplinary environmental program is expanding, thanks to a new post-doctoral fellowship program.

 
Nuclear traffic control
Joseph McClain for Ideation magazine | November 11, 2009

Lizabeth Allison studies nuclear transport, but her work has nothing to do with nuclear energy.

 
Musicologist Preston is National Humanities Center Fellow
Lillian Stevens for Ideation magazine | November 11, 2009

Eminent musicologist Kitty Preston will use her National Humanities fellowship to finish her book on women managers in 19th Century opera.

 
Never trust a whimbrel
Joseph McClain for Ideation magazine | November 11, 2009

These shifty, stilt-legged shorebirds continue to surprise even seasoned scientists.

 
For whom the bell didn't toll
Erin Zagursky for Ideation magazine | November 11, 2009

A group of students journey to Spain to trace the twisted threads of the legacy of that country's tragic civil war.

 
Getting to the bottom of Lake Matoaka
Joseph McClain for Ideation magazine | November 11, 2009

William & Mary's landmark lake is full of history, even below the waterline.

 
‘The past isn't dead. It isn't even past.’—Faulkner
David Williard for Ideation magazine | November 11, 2009

William & Mary's Susan Donaldson spearheads important scholarship on the dark days of lynching...and their present-day echoes.

 
Questions of governance
Ideation magazine staff | November 11, 2009

From its base in the power center of Washington, D.C., the Global Environmental Governance Project engages the tough problems surrounding international environmental institutions and laws.

 
Murray Scholars probe Eastern Shore culture
Joseph McClain for Ideation magazine | November 11, 2009

Our Murray Scholars, under the leadership of Dan Cristol, each year take a trip to the farm of the program's benefactors.

 
Basement to ceiling
Joseph McClain | July 28, 2009

Seniors in the geology department do a whirlwind tour from the bottom of a slate quarry to the top of the Blue Ridge Mountains.

 
'Travels with Tooy' wins another award
Joseph McClain | June 23, 2009

Richard Price's ethnographic account of a "trip down the rabbit hole" with a Samarka curer has won the Gordon K. and Sybil Lewis Memorial Award for Caribbean Scholarship.

 
A walk through the new ISC 2
Joseph McClain for Ideation magazine | June 5, 2009

Rogers Hall has been renovated and is now part of the Integrated Science Center. The labs are working, even as unpacking continues.

 
Ecofashion: We're not only what we wear
Lillian Stevens for Ideation magazine | May 28, 2009

We're also who made what we wear and what it's made from. (And other fashion truisms that will keep green the new black.)

 
Waiting for the word
Joseph McClain for Ideation magazine | May 27, 2009

Henry Hart hopes that ”appetizer” booklets will spur publication of ambitious post-World War II literary anthology.

 
Follow Azalea the eagle on line
Joseph McClain | May 21, 2009

Our Center for Conservation Biology invites the public to watch the growth and development of Azalea, an eagle chick hatched at the Norfolk Botanical Gardens.

 
It came. Out of the muck of Crim Dell...
Joseph McClain | February 26, 2009

Members of a freshman seminar have found a strain of bacteriophage that may be previously unknown to science. The phage was found in William & Mary's landmark Crim Dell.

 
2 alumni win Darwin-Wallace Medals
Joseph McClain | February 26, 2009

The Linnean Society of London has awarded Darwin-Wallace medals every half-century since 1908. The most recent class includes H. Allen Orr ’82, ’85 and Mohamed Noor ’92.

 
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Nanotechnology postdoc wins Outstanding Young Researcher Award
Joe McClain | October 7, 2008

A researcher in the Department of Applied Science wins an award for working with materials that are just a few atoms thick.

 
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Evolution of a research initiative
L. H. Brumfield | August 29, 2008

SOMOS-the Student Organization for Medical Outreach and Sustainability-started as an annual trip, but has grown in size, scope and everything else.

 
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The sad fate of bluebird number eight
Rachel Apostoles | August 28, 2008

Tracking young bluebirds through telemetry can offer up some surprises.

 
Brooklynd Saar and Professor Elizabeth Harbron in a lab.
Inaugural class of Dintersmith Fellows
the Ideation writers | July 31, 2008

Now a few select students can spend the summer getting a head start on honors thesis research.