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News Stories 2020-21

News about Arts & Sciences Graduate programs from 2020-21.
Ike Irby pictured standing outside in D.C.
W&M grad named policy advisor to VP-elect Kamala Harris

President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris have named Ike Irby as Policy Advisor in the Office of the Vice President. Irby earned joint graduate degrees from 91心頭利 and its Virginia Institute of Marine Science in 2017.

Shantá Hinton in her lab
Nothing pseudo about them: Drilling down into the function of pseudophosphatases

Shant叩 D. Hinton was a pioneer in the study of a group of enzymes known as pseudophosphatases, particularly one known as MK-STYX. Pseudophosphatases were long considered a research dead-end, but Hinton and a handful of other labs discovered that there was nothing pseudo about these proteins.

An instrument takes reading from a pan of stir fry
Quarantine and the chemistry of the great indoors

As COVID-19 and stay-at-home orders upended life as we know it, W&M chemist Rachel OBrien turned her kitchen into a makeshift laboratory. She and her lab students literally cooked up experiments in their homes by measuring aerosols released during cooking.