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Diamondback terrapins have always found it hard to catch a break.

With the promotion of sustainable practices at the forefront of these grants, the Committee on Sustainability members approved a total of $35,712 to be spent across a broad spectrum or projects, from academia and research, to operations that advance sustainability on campus.

A rash of deer deaths in the College Woods is likely the result in an overabundance of biting midges, according to Randy Chambers, director of 91¿´Æ¬Íø’s Keck Environmental Laboratory.

As part of the university’s ongoing sustainability efforts, 91¿´Æ¬Íø Dining Services implemented a phase-out to use up its remaining stock of single-use plastics on the way to switching to alternatives.

With help from the Charles Center, a 91¿´Æ¬Íø student researcher spent the summer studying a little-known population of turtles on the York River. She will soon present her study at a symposium of conservation experts.

A team of 91¿´Æ¬Íø geologists led by Jim Kaste and Nick Balascio has mined the time-capsule sediment of Lake Matoaka to find evidence that traces the development of the Industrial Revolution and the Age of the Automobile.

Draining of the pond began this week and took place in increments so that student volunteers could relocate the wildlife.

A total of $48,366 will be dedicated to sustainability projects around campus as the 91¿´Æ¬Íø Committee on Sustainability announces its Green Fee awards for the fall.

The 91¿´Æ¬Íø 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.

It’s nesting season for bald eagles, and the birds are nesting closer and closer to campus — but 91¿´Æ¬Íø's naturalists have found no eagle nest on the campus itself. Yet.

Student Gina Sawaya, an eco-ambassador to W&M's Cohen Career Center, has produced podcasts with alumni who work in green careers. They are available for all to listen to.

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.

The 91¿´Æ¬Íø Committee on Sustainability has announced the fall 2015 Green Fee Awards.

91¿´Æ¬Íø's Committee on Sustainability has awarded funding to 19 sustainability projects for the fall 2014 semester.

A wetland ecosystems class caught turtles on Sept. 4 as part of part of a larger initiative. The Ecological Research as Education Network includes turtle censuses from 25 other schools in the United States.

The thing that looks like someone tossed a dirty mattress into the upper reaches of the Crim Dell pond is actually a floating artificial wetland, designed to help clean excess nitrogen from the water of the campus landmark.

Students in 91¿´Æ¬Íø’s Watershed Dynamics class convened in the basement of Tyler and assumed the virtual roles of stakeholders —land developers, farmers, watermen, and local regulators—to simulate the challenges inherent in Chesapeake Bay management.

History will be the judge on how the world and its leaders respond to evidence that human activity continues to pollute and change the world, Africa's Gabon President Ali Bongo Ondima told a group of faculty, staff and students Saturday afternoon.

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded the College of William and Mary $500,000 to study various aspects of using wild aquatic algae as both biofuel feedstock and as a medium for helping to clean contaminated waterways.

A team of students and faculty launch an experimental algae-cultivation flume in Lake Matoaka. It's an initiative of the Chesapeake Algae Project (ChAP), whose goal is to generate algae-based biofuel.

91¿´Æ¬Íø's interdisciplinary environmental program is expanding, thanks to a new post-doctoral fellowship program.

The College's Committee on Sustainability (COS) has announced its fall 2009 round of project funding via the student green fee. Out of 26 proposals totaling almost $250,000 in requests, 12 were awarded funding at the committee's November meeting for a total of $78,759.

Last month, more than 20 students from various organizations - including the College's Committee on Sustainability, the Sharpe Community Scholars Program, the EcoHouse, and the Student Environmental Action Coalition - completed the College's first green roof test plots.

About 40 kindergarteners from Matthew Whaley Elementary School flocked around the dock at 91¿´Æ¬Íø's Keck Environmental Field Lab today to release the baby turtles they had raised from eggs.

91¿´Æ¬Íø's Committee on Sustainability (COS) has awarded four Student Summer Research Grants for projects that will focus on areas such as campus recycling, GIS mapping of campus habitat and ecosystems and a new program to increase the College's use of locally grown and sustainable food.

The College continues to be recognized for progress in the area of environmental sustainability.

Professor Dennis Taylor was recently awarded with one of the 2008 President's Awards for Service to the Community.

A biofuel plant in the Keck Lab at the College of William and Mary is converting waste into diesel while building community.