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Winter 2008-09



 

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.

 
A more vivid PLAID
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.

 
Key to a culture
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.

 
Be afraid. Be very afraid--or just plain disgusted.
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.

 
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.

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

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

 
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.

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

Great libraries make great research and scholarship possible.

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

Book by Richard Prize wins top honors for ethnographic writing.

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

Randy Coleman uses technology to teach chemistry better.

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

Tracking young bluebirds through telemetry can offer up some surprises.

 
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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.

 
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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.

 
Preston is Fulbright Distinguished Chair
Author: Erin Zagursky | January 1, 2009

Katherine K. Preston will spend the spring 2009 semester at the University of Leiden in the Netherlands, after being named the Walt Whitman Distinguished Chair of American Culture by the Fulbright Center of the Netherlands.

 
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.

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

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

 
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.

 
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.