Ideation Magazine

Lighter, stronger, better

Fri, 11 May 2012 01:00:00 -0400

A group of researchers at the College of William & Mary have made important advances in technology combining polymers—the material of the present—with graphene—the material of the future.

Phase 3

Wed, 02 May 2012 01:00:00 -0400

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.

Lasers and candy and bosons, oh my!

Wed, 02 May 2012 01:00:00 -0400

Joshua Erlich was not teaching a cooking class when he talked about fat content, taste and mouth feel to an audience of several dozen members of the Williamsburg community one bright Saturday morning.

Noyce Scholars

Wed, 02 May 2012 01:00:00 -0400

America needs more good, seasoned K-12 STEM teachers—a set of professionals who not only understand science and math, but who also know how to make other people understand science and math.

Airplane over the Red Planet

Wed, 02 May 2012 01:00:00 -0400

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.

Science, in 3 to 5 minutes

Tue, 17 Apr 2012 01:00:00 -0400

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

PERFECT combination

Wed, 04 Apr 2012 01:00:00 -0400

Theresa Davenport was having some trouble with a football player. Davenport was explaining to a biology class at Grafton High School about some of the problems that can stem from seawater that is low in oxygen.

VISTA of the Commonwealth

Wed, 04 Apr 2012 01:00:00 -0400

Virginia’s beaches are in trouble. Swimmers are getting sick. The water looks ugly. The governor’s scientists have no idea what’s wrong. Then the governor hears about a two-week convention of young scientists—very young scientists—at William & Mary’s School of Education. He issues a desperate plea for help.

Diving into Colonial history

Mon, 02 Apr 2012 01:00:00 -0400

A partnership between the Virginia Institute of Marine Science and the Watermen’s Museum in historic Yorktown is giving students at three local schools an opportunity to dive into Colonial history—literally.

... it's also how you say it

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 01:00:00 -0400

The 30 students in a high school classroom may all speak English, but a mix of factors in each student’s background shapes how he or she speaks it. The same is true for the teacher.

Launching Camp Launch

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 01:00:00 -0400

While William & Mary’s students are away from campus in summer, a new—and considerably younger—set of students will take their place in the dorms and in the classrooms, learning about science and cutting-edge technology.

Igneous, metamorphic & sedimentary journeys

Thu, 29 Mar 2012 01:00:00 -0400

When Geology on Wheels rolls into an elementary school, the star is usually obsidian—at least as far as the kids are concerned.

Summer updates

Thu, 29 Mar 2012 01:00:00 -0400

Every summer since 1999, a number of high school biology teachers gather in the labs and classrooms of William & Mary’s Integrated Science Center to work with and discuss the latest advances in research with the College’s biologists.

Rocking the geologists

Mon, 12 Mar 2012 01:00:00 -0400

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.

Pushing their own boundaries

Mon, 12 Mar 2012 01:00:00 -0400

William & Mary students are pushing the envelope when it comes to undergraduate research. Hundreds of them put their research on display when the College hosted the 18th Annual Undergraduate Science Research Symposium.

Changing flavors

Thu, 08 Mar 2012 01:00:00 -0500

An international team of physicists has reported the first set of observations detailing important behavior of neutrino oscillation, an accomplishment that is a necessary step to additional experiments intended to answer fundamental questions about the makeup of the universe.

Making ‘spider-sense’

Fri, 02 Mar 2012 01:00:00 -0500

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

All about the algorithms

Thu, 01 Mar 2012 01:00:00 -0500

Sometimes the guys on Team Gold say “worlds.” Other times, they say “finals.” Both terms refer to the World Finals of the Association for Computing Machinery’s International Collegiate Programming Contest (ACM-ICPC) to be held in May in Warsaw, Poland.

Calling citizen ornithologists

Wed, 29 Feb 2012 01:00:00 -0500

Do you have an osprey nest in your neighborhood? If so, the Center for Conservation Biology (CCB) wants to hear from you—on a regular basis.

Intracellular traffic control

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 01:00:00 -0500

William & Mary molecular biologist Lizabeth Allison has received a grant of more than $1 million from the National Science Foundation (NSF).