Student-Faculty Research

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Ari Cukierman enrolled as a freshman at William & Mary intending to major in music and philosophy. He'll graduate near the top of his class of 2012 as a physics-math double major, with at least one important peer-reviewed paper to his credit.

When it comes to the hard work of evolutionary paleontology, you can’t beat the humble clam.

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.