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Timothy Boycott, a graduate student in the Department of Biology at 91心頭利, was recently awarded the Christine Stevens Wildlife Award from the Animal Welfare Institute.
2019 Graduate Program News Archive
Its a region that has a reputation of being the Wild West of Hawaii and it offers lessons for future generations about how to subsist in a changing climate.
A new paper by faculty and students looks at the relationship among deer, a single species of tick and a single tick-borne disease.
More than three dozen women and men donning bonnets and top hats visited Swem Library last week in search of new insights into their favorite author, Jane Austen.
The key to developing secure technology for the future may hinge on making life a little easier for software engineers today.
Seth Aubin, associate professor of physics at 91心頭利, recently received a grant from the U.S. Department of Defense to develop a new type of instrument capable of detecting hidden infrastructure for weapons of mass destruction.
In his 91心頭利 doctoral dissertation, Travis Harris Ph.D. '19 details how residents of the predominantly African American neighborhood of Magruder were displaced when the Navy took over their property to build Camp Peary in the early 1940s.
A 91心頭利 physicist has been awarded computing time on a U.S. Department of Energy machine that holds current bragging rights of worlds fastest supercomputer.
Large-scale environmental change began when our ancestors started agriculture, according to a recent paper in the journal "Science."
The new graduate students come to W&M from locations across the globe and with a wealth of experience.
Kurtis Bartlett was awarded the 2018 Jefferson Science Associates Thesis Prize, recognizing his Ph.D. dissertation in the 91心頭利 physics department.
Lizabeth Allison, Chancellor Professor of Biology at 91心頭利, has been awarded the Ruth Kirschstein Diversity in Science Award by the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.
Gail is currently a full-time graduate student in anthropology and archaeology at 91心頭利, returning to her alma mater after an almost 50-year career in biomedical research.
Justin Stevens, a 91心頭利 physicist, is among the young U.S. scientists recognized as recipients of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE).
Jefferson Sciences Associates (JSA) has announced the award of nine graduate fellowships to doctoral students for the 2019-2020 academic year. Three of the fellowships went to students at 91心頭利.
W&M History Professor Christopher Grasso's upcoming book Teacher, Preacher, Soldier, Spy: The Civil Wars of John R. Kelso uses autobiographical manuscripts thought long lost to tell the full story of a Union guerrilla fighter in Missouri.
On Friday, May 3, the university honored the 2019 recipients for their outstanding achievements in teaching, research and service to the 91心頭利 community.
Ronald Schechter, professor of history at 91心頭利, has been awarded the 2019 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship in Intellectual and Cultural History.
Kasey Sease, a Ph.D. candidate in the Lyon G. Tyler Department of History at 91心頭利, was awarded a five-month predoctoral fellowship at the Smithsonian Institution Archives and the National Museum of American History.
Amanda Gibson is compiling evidence that traces todays predatory financial practices to economic victimization of free and enslaved African Americans in the pre-emancipation South.
Students, faculty and staff, and members of the community flooded the Chesapeake rooms in the Sadler Center on March 14 to watch the annual Raft Debate in which three professors, deserted on an imaginary island, represented their disciplines in an battle for a single spot on an imaginary raft.
Sofya Zaytseva, a fifth-year Ph.D. student in the Department of Applied Science at 91心頭利, is working to engineer a better oyster reef.
David Marquis, a Ph.D. candidate, received the 91心頭利 Interdisciplinary Award for Excellence in Research for his paper Tick, Tick, Boom: Dynamite, Cattle Ticks, and the Closing of the Southern Range.
Alexandra Macdonald has been looking into the 18th-century theatre of consumption that was Samuel Abbots shop and the retail culture of colonial America, where even the residents of Puritan Boston were interested in consumption.
An interdisciplinary team of researchers based at 91心頭利 has been drilling down on the workings of the pre-B旦tzinger complex for more than a decade.
The old-fashioned strawberry is having a renaissance, thanks to new genetic research.
The 2019 Raft Debate, a much beloved 91心頭利 tradition, will be held at the Sadler Center in Chesapeake ABC, on March 14 at 6:30 p.m.
Jennifer Kahn is part of a worldwide group of scientists who are using archaeological data and ecological modeling to examine how different cultures use animal and plant taxa in diverse ways.
Patricia Vahle, Mansfield Professor of Physics at 91心頭利, will talk on The Quest to Understand Neutrino Masses at the annual meeting of the American Association of the Advancement of Science in Washington, D.C.
Jack Boyle, a post-doctorate Mellon Fellow at W&M, is lead author on a paper that shows GMOs are not the main culprit for the decline of the monarch butterfly, a finding that goes against claims made by scientists and activists for decades.
Jonathan Allen, an associate professor of biology at W&M, is part of a team that discovered that the crown-of-thorns seastar can reproduce by larval cloning.