The team's idea to teach children to read and write in Haitian Creole using laptops finished second in a contest at UC-Berkeley. They're in Haiti now, implementing the approach.
1693 Scholars News Stories
From before the 2015-16 Academic year
William & Mary has logged an unusual "clean sweep" in a prestigious national scholarship program, with all four of the university's nominees winning Goldwater Scholarships.
Venture capitalist and former William & Mary Rector James B. Murray Jr., J.D. '74, LL.D. '00, will speak at the university's 2015 Charter Day ceremony.
Reed Beverstock '14 and Daniel Duane '15 make up a team that is preparing video modules to be used in an initiative titled Enhancing Problem-Solving Skills Using Online Tutorials.
Fellows will be working in Mexico, Senegal, Timor-Leste, Nepal and Uganda, with 12 host organizations. Eight are current students or recent graduates from W&M.
Dressed as Charles Darwin and armed with an erupting bottle of "science juice," Dan Cristol scored a victory for the natural and computational sciences on Wednesday night.
Murray House on Chandler Court, donated to the College by Jim J.D. '74, LL.D. '00 and Bruce Murray, will enable the 1693 Scholars Program to continue to reach its full potential.
Ethan Roday is working on an iPad app that will allow composers to write scores on their tablet devices.
Two winners of the 1693 Scholarship, William & Mary's most selective merit-based academic award, will make the short trip from their Hampton Roads communities to campus for freshman orientation.
The scholarships and fellowships are designed to provide undergraduate and graduate students with resources to acquire language skills and experience in countries critical to the future security and stability of the U.S.
For his 1693 (Murray) Scholar's Project, Colton O'Connor spent three weeks in southwest Louisiana working to preserve the Koasati language.
Mapping for Results is an innovative initiative organized by a partnership between the World Bank, Development Gateway and AidData.
A team of W&M researchers help Ugandan scientists prepare for a promising but uncertain future.
Weaver Memorial Endowment Connects Students to Todd - and the World
When Mohima Sanyal '14 would drop a transgenic mouse into the lab’s Y-shaped maze, she had a pretty good idea of how the mouse would react.
Her name is Olivia Walch '11, and she was officially crowned America’s Next Great Cartoonist on July 15.
For her Murray project, Jennifer MacLure undertook a creative writing project inspired by one of her favorite poets, Hilda Doolittle.
Michelle Munyikwa '11 is one of only 15 students to be selected as a UNCF - Merck Undergraduate Fellow.
1693 (Murray) Scholar Francesca Fornasini explored 2 Northern Italian Dialects for her Murray Scholar's Project
We have a lot to celebrate right now in the Murray Scholars program!
Murray Scholar Caitlin Clements '11 helped organize the Third Annual Global Film Festival at W&M
Francesca Fornasini, Jennifer MacLure and Colton O'Connor were inducted into the William and Mary Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa in the fall of 2009.
Our Murray Scholars, under the leadership of Dan Cristol, each year take a trip to the farm of the program's benefactors.
Murray Scholar Michelle Munyikwa is a member of Dr. Liz Allison's research lab at W&M, which studies how tiny protein messengers move between the nucleus and the cytoplasm of the cell.
It's probably the world's only birdhouse with the scales of justice on one side and the William and Mary cipher on the other.
The five Murray Scholars who are members of the William and Mary Class of 2011 bring impeccable academic credentials that jealously were sought by such notable institutions as Princeton, Yale, Pennsyvlania and M.I.T.
The five Murray Scholars who are members of the William and Mary Class of 2011 bring impeccable academic credentials that jealously were sought by such notable institutions as Princeton, Yale, Pennsyvlania and M.I.T.
Two faculty members at the College of William and Mary have received the Commonwealth's highest honor for professors.
