Current Stories

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

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

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

Lizabeth Allison studies nuclear transport, but her work has nothing to do with nuclear energy.
Eminent musicologist Kitty Preston will use her National Humanities fellowship to finish her book on women managers in 19th Century opera.

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

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

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

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

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.

Our Murray Scholars, under the leadership of Dan Cristol, each year take a trip to the farm of the program's benefactors.
Seniors in the geology department do a whirlwind tour from the bottom of a slate quarry to the top of the Blue Ridge Mountains.

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.

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

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.)

Henry Hart hopes that appetizer booklets will spur publication of ambitious post-World War II literary anthology.
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.
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.
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.
A researcher in the Department of Applied Science wins an award for working with materials that are just a few atoms thick.
SOMOS-the Student Organization for Medical Outreach and Sustainability-started as an annual trip, but has grown in size, scope and everything else.
Tracking young bluebirds through telemetry can offer up some surprises.
Now a few select students can spend the summer getting a head start on honors thesis research.
















