William & Mary has joined six other Virginia research institutions in a formal agreement that will encourage shared use of scientific instrumentation.
2016-17 News Stories
W&M's Department of Biology: News stories from 2016-17.
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.
