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ARES will parachute down to above the surface of Mars
Airplane over the Red Planet
Joseph McClain | May 2, 2012

William & Mary might become the base for a mission to Mars. The mission is called ARES—the Aerial Regional-scale Environmental Surveyor. Joel Levine explains that the idea is to send an airplane to Mars.

 
Architectural rendering of Phase 3 of William & Mary's Integrated Science Center
Phase 3
Joseph McClain | May 2, 2012

Members of the Committee on Buildings and Grounds of William & Mary’s Board of Visitors were treated to an advance look at the Machine for Science and other features of Phase 3 of the College’s Integrated Science Center.

 
Science, in 3 to 5 minutes
Justine Whelan '14 | April 17, 2012

There are the arts, and then there are the sciences. There is literature, language and film, and then there is calculus, physics and experiments.

 
Rocking the geologists
Alla Herman '15 | March 12, 2012

The William & Mary Department of Geology has acquired a world-class mineral collection that geologists say will be a valuable resource in the department for many years.

 
Making ‘spider-sense’
Joseph McClain | March 2, 2012

The world may just have moved a step closer to the reality of comic books.

 
Special ops
Justine Whelan '14 | December 15, 2011

It all was hypothetical—but very realistic. Mitchell, Emily Pehrsson ’13, Dallen McNerney ’14, and Connor Smith ’14 represented William & Mary at a CIA Crisis Simulation Competition in November.

 
The Yankee Well ...
Justine Whelan, Ideation intern | November 28, 2011

The mist turns into a legitimate drizzle as Joe Jones stands over a hole in the ground on the Historic Campus of William & Mary. He has just removed a large plywood cover sheltering a pit approximately two feet in depth.

 
Geology at the half-century mark
Joseph McClain | November 4, 2011

William & Mary’s Department of Geology is celebrating its 50th birthday—not even a tick of the clock in terms of the age of the earth.

 
Teaching through research
Staff | October 2, 2011

"We’ve determined as a faculty that our undergraduate students should comprehend the tools of research as an essential part of their future problem-solving and decision-making,” says Joel Schwartz, director of the Charles Center and dean of honors and interdisciplinary studies.

 
Fulbright Fellow Chi-Kwong Li helps Hong Kong universities expand curricula
Joseph McClain | October 2, 2011

William & Mary mathematician Chi-Kwong Li has been awarded a Fulbright grant by the Council for International Exchange of Scholars.