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Winter 2008-2009 Issue

Integrated Science Center: Open for ideas and advancement
Joseph McClain for Ideation magazine | January 9, 2009

ISC 1 is open and producing science. ISC 2 is under construction. Just wait until we build ISC 3.

 
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Drawing the hypotenuse: The need to build ISC 3
Joe McClain for Ideation magazine | January 9, 2009

ISC 1 and 2 will go a long way, but the third phase of the Integrated Science Center will bring it all together.

 
Biological research in the ISC: Cure cancer by studying yeast? Yes.
Joe McClain for Ideation magazine | January 9, 2009

Research now under way in the new Integrated Science Center: What can an understanding of the genetics of yeast do to get us closer to a cure for cancer? Plenty.

 
Chemistry research in the ISC: Investigating the theft of electrons
Joe McClain for Ideation magazine | January 9, 2009

Oxidative damage of protein happens to us all, but our bodies usually fix the problem. Usually.

 
Undergraduate Research in the ISC: On the trail of the bacteriophage
Joe McClain for Ideation magazine | January 9, 2009

In the teaching labs of the Integrated Science Center

 
Support from Gates and Hewlett foundations take PLAID to the next level
Joe McClain for Ideation magazine | January 9, 2009

Project-Level Aid, the foreign-aid tracking program based at William and Mary, prepares for launching version 2.0.

 
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Home at the Institute
Joe McClain for Ideation magazine | January 9, 2009

The College's new Institute for the Theory and Practice of International Relations has a new home.

 
Music in time of war and peace
Lillian Stevens for Ideation magazine | January 9, 2009

The Middle Eastern Music Ensemble offers a window into a culture that is becoming more and more a part of our own.

 
All ready for the takht
Lillian Stevens for Ideation magazine | January 9, 2009

The instruments for making Middle Eastern music are a blend of the familiar and the exotic.

 
Fear is only too real. It also changes things.
Erin Zagursky for Ideation magazine | January 9, 2009

Fear and other negative emotions make your world completely different. But don't worry--it happens to everybody.

 
Subtleties of subtitles
Erin Zagursky for Ideation | January 9, 2009

You, too, can now understand Cuban films, thanks to Anne Marie Stock.

 
Update on our Faculty-Student Research Initiative
Joe McClain for Ideation magazine | January 9, 2009

One of William and Mary's strengths is the involvement of our students in research...and it's about to get stronger.

 
Inaugural class of Dintersmith Fellows
the Ideation writers | January 8, 2009

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

 
Travels with Tooy wins Victor Turner Prize
Joseph McClain | November 15, 2008

Book by Richard Prize wins top honors for ethnographic writing.

 
Study shows mycobacteriosis spread in stripers
Dave Malmquist | November 15, 2008

Chronic bacterial disease now affects more than half the Bay's striped bass.

 
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Marine Technology Society honors VIMS professor
Dave Malmquist | November 15, 2008

Mark Patterson gets some well-earned plaudits for his work with underwater instrumentation.

 
Grants to produce more math, science teachers
Erin Zagursky | November 15, 2008

Some 33 students will be supported in math-science education initiative.

 
Global study shows rise in marine 'dead zones'
Dave Malmquist | November 15, 2008

Hypoxic areas in the world's oceans have grown by a third between 1995 and 2007.

 
Eagle researchers honor two of their own
Joe McClain | November 15, 2008

Bryan Watts and Mitchell Byrd are two reasons there are bald eagles in Virginia today.

 
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College libraries ranked among nation's best
Brian Whitson | November 15, 2008

Great libraries make great research and scholarship possible.

 
Chemist joins inaugural Walk of Fame class
Joe McClain | November 15, 2008

Bill Starnes joins a class that includes George C. Scott and Daniel Boone.

 
William and Mary isn't using quill pens
Erin Zagursky | November 15, 2008

Randy Coleman uses technology to teach chemistry better.

 
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$2.5 million commitment will assist libraries
Brian Whitson | November 15, 2008

A gift from an alumna and her husband will help keep William and Mary's libraries first-rate.

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

Tracking young bluebirds through telemetry can offer up some surprises.