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The College of William and Mary’s libraries are among the best in the country, according to the latest rankings from the Princeton Review.
A dozen students at the College of William and Mary are among the statewide recipients of the Virginia Space Grant Consortium\'s scholarships and fellowships for the 2008-09 school year, the consortium announced July 24
Note from Interim President Taylor Reveley regarding the state budget picture.
Kate Mize, a Galileo Magnet High School graduate from Halifax, Va., has been named recipient of the 2008-09 Harriett Pittard Beales Scholarship at the College of William and Mary.
Mitchell Reiss, vice provost for international affairs, testified July 15, 2008 before a subcommittee of Congress\'s House Armed Services Committee.
Congressman Rob Wittman (R-VA) met with William and Mary Interim President Taylor W. Reveley III and Provost P. Geoffrey Feiss during the Congressman’s tour of the College's campus on July 1, 2008. The visit to the College’s Williamsburg campus was Wittman’s first since his election to Congress last year.
Wittman, who is concerned about the Chesapeake Bay and the issues surrounding it, also met with John Wells, dean and director of William and Mary’s Virginia Institute of Marine Science. While in Williamsburg, the congressman heard presentations on William and Mary’s extensive undergraduate research program and the work of the college’s Center for Excellence in Aging and Geriatric Health.
Wittman represents Virginia’s 1st District. He filled the vacated seat of Congresswoman JoAnn Davis who passed away last fall.
College of William and Mary Interim President W. Taylor Reveley, III, had a significant part in a national news story Tuesday regarding a proposed overhaul of the process involved when the president and Congress send armed forces into war.
The July 8 issue of The Richmond Times-Dispatch featured a study at William and Mary on the impact of crab pots on diamondback terrapins.
Access to National War Powers Commission report (pdf).
The College of William and Mary will test its emergency alert system Wednesday July 2, 2008. The drill will be conducted at 12:15 p.m.
W&M Laycock Center to hold open house.
Two students at the College of WIlliam and Mary were featured on a National Public Radio program discussing how the age of voters and candidates will play a role in the upcoming presidential election.
Researchers from the College of William and Mary have discovered that what’s good for an area’s bird population also is good for people living nearby—especially during an outbreak of West Nile virus.
Mitchell B. Reiss, vice provost for international relations at the College of William and Mary accepted an appointment this month to the Congressional Commission on the Strategic Posture of the United States.
A group of conservationists and eagle researchers recently took a break in a day of review and discussion of the current status of bald eagles to honor Bryan Watts, the center’s director, and Mitchell Byrd, director emeritus, of William and Mary’s Center for Conservation Biology.
His Excellency Dennis Richardson, Australian ambassador to the United States visited the William and Mary campus June 13, 2008.
The 2008 Harriman Fellows are Andrew Blasi from the College of William and Mary, Matthew McGrath from Vanderbilt University and James Nadel from Tufts University.
Shay Jannat, a rising junior at the College of William and Mary, was recently awarded a prestigious Thomas R. Pickering Undergraduate Foreign Affairs Fellowship.