A graduate student is researching regional differences in milkweed and the implications of those differences on populations of monarch butterflies in eastern North America

The “People behind the papers” interview was prompted the recently published paper and highlights her international collaboration in the field of cell structure and development.

“Brain Dance” is the 12th Tack Faculty Lecture and one in a yearlong series of events at the university to commemorate the 50th anniversary of William & Mary’s first African-American residential students.

Khalil Russell '21 is a 1693 Scholar who has a passion for breeding fish. It's one reason he chose to study at William & Mary.

A developing technology will project an audible alarm to alert birds that they need to switch off cruise control and look ahead.

William & Mary has joined six other Virginia research institutions in a formal agreement that will encourage shared use of scientific instrumentation.

Conservation partners are celebrating the first successful breeding of the endangered red-cockaded woodpecker within the Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge.

The following awards were presented during Commencement ceremonies on May 13, 2017.

Renee Peace, business manager for the biology department, has been awarded the 2017 Charles and Virginia Duke Award.

W&M Associate Professor recognized by her alma mater, Howard University during celebration of its 150th Anniversary

Ananda Menon, who is pursuing a master’s degree in W&M’s Department of Biology, is examining the effects of mercury on the sperm of birds.

Anna Klompen ’17 and Karina Brocco French ’16 made significant discoveries in Jonathan Allen’s lab in William & Mary’s Department of Biology.

A well-done, less than 14-minute podcast broadcast by the Flat Hat. Well worth a listen!

The edition is the only one in the U.S. and one of three in the world belonging to a library, according to WorldCat’s global library catalog.

The William & Mary Committee on Sustainability this fall awarded more than $50,000 in funding to faculty, students and staff for sustainability projects on campus and in the local community through Green Fee grants.

A group of William & Mary researchers led by Dan Cristol provided scientific evidence supporting a $50 million settlement resulting from decades-old mercury pollution.

You probably have never seen a black rail. Most people — even serious birders — haven’t. The last Virginia sighting was in 2014, but that doesn’t mean they’re not out there.

Millington Hall is being slowly eaten away...

New venue, old friends as Biology Department alumni return for a wonderful reunion.

A grant from the National Science Foundation to a multi-institutional team headed by researchers at William & Mary’s Virginia Institute of Marine Science will fund an effort to identify how policymakers and coastal residents can best respond to rising seas.

Homecoming Events planned for Oct 13-16. Good-bye Millington, Hello ISC!

ISC 3 came on line for the beginning of the semester and was dedicated at a Sept. 22 ceremony held in conjunction with the fall meeting of the university’s Board of Visitors.

Work is still going on, but the third phase of William & Mary’s Integrated Science Center will be open when classes start. (With one exception.)

Last year’s William & Mary iGEM team won several prizes, including the Grand Prize. This year’s project is going to be bigger. And better. And more useful.

Mark Swingle ’76 was the first employee hired when the Virginia Aquarium & Marine Science Center was nothing more than a tiny office. The aquarium is now celebrating its 30th anniversary.

It was a banner year for Virginia’s bald eagles as well as for Virginia’s bald-eagle researchers.

The new 113,000-square-foot ISC 3 is scheduled to be fully on line in fall.

A recent announcement from Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe included notice that two William & Mary scientists received matching funds to help bring their discoveries into the market.

The W&M Herbarium is part of a global effort digitizing natural history collections. More than half of its roughly 81,000 specimen records are available for free online.

A team from William & Mary is a finalist in the 2016 American Society for Microbiology Agar Art contest, and your vote can help win the People’s Choice Award.

Students will be able to check-out the solar-powered bike-car hybrid, which is one of the projects approved this spring for green fee project funding.

W&M Professor Dan Cristol is one of the authors of a new paper that confirms an additional challenge for migratory birds, beyond the vicissitudes of weather, predators and the bad luck of running into a wind turbine or a window.

The William Small Award for Faculty Excellence remembers the contributions of 18th-century professor and Thomas Jefferson teacher William Small

Work by the university's researchers has been prominent in the national — and even the international — media recently.

It takes a research university to bring together the resources required to address big questions, but the term “research university” takes a bit of unpacking in the context of an institution that, as the charter mandates, "shall be called and denominated, for ever, the College of William and Mary."

The scholarships are reserved for students studying math, science or engineering who intend to pursue a Ph.D.

Photo booth technology has advanced tremendously from the old days!

William & Mary ichthyologist Laurie Sanderson has a patent pending on a new type of filter that is designed to be clogless, or at least clog-resistant.

It’s nesting season for bald eagles, and the birds are nesting closer and closer to campus — but William & Mary's naturalists have found no eagle nest on the campus itself. Yet.

More than 150 grad students from the arts and sciences presented their research March 18-19 at the Sadler Center

It didn’t take long for W&M students to start charging their laptops and phones with the new solar-powered charging station built into a picnic table Tuesday outside Sadler Center.

Anna Klompen W&M '17, recently was awarded a Grant-in-Aid of Research from Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society. Jon Allen, her undergraduate research advisor, reflects on how this award became a springboard for his own career.

Halleran is the co-recipient of the 2016 Jefferson Prize, sharing the award with Isaac Alty, a chemistry and ancient Greek major.

"It was amazing to experience others engaging with my research and offering ideas on the directions I can take my project"

Two William & Mary professors have been recognized as 2016 recipients of Outstanding Faculty Awards by the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia.

Joanne Watters Elena is program director of NIH's National Cancer Institute. Conclusive evidence, she said, remains elusive.

Drs. Matthias Leu and Oliver Kerscher are in video describing methods and purpose of this collaborative project.