A CAREER award from the NSF will allow Nathan Kidwell and his lab to investigate the chemistry of hydroxyl radicals.
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Trio of theorists join $11.24 million nuclear physics collaboration group
Department of Energy funding will allow physics department to add a new faculty member and a graduate student.
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Britescope: A new laryngoscope, enhanced by artificial intelligence, with the potential to save lives
Failed emergency intubation leads to a large number of deaths in the U.S. A better laryngoscope can reduce that number. Ran Yang and her team are working on one.
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Mollusks — dead and alive — can help predict future shellfish extinction
Rising ocean temperatures are likely to result in extinction of some species of mollusks. But which will we lose first?
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Gang Zhou named fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers
He becomes the third current member of William & Mary's Department of Computer Science to hold the distinction.
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P5: Charting the course for the next era of particle physics
The Particle Physics Project Prioritization Panel is tasked with drawing up a plan for particle physics research for the next decade or so. William & Mary's Christopher Monahan is a member of the group.
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Archaeology reveals sustainability mistakes from the remote past that carry lessons for our immediate future
Many early societies relied on cultural land-use templates that didn't always work out so well. Jennifer Kahn says we have better information today.
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William & Mary makes significant contributions at Town Hall Meeting on Hot & Cold QCD
A theorist, an experimentalist and a data scientist/physicist gave presentations at the quantum chromodynamics sessions at MIT.
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The Tryptophan Myth … and other biochemical facts of Thanksgiving dinner
Have that nap. But don't blame your Thanksgiving "food coma" on an innocent amino acid.
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Orginos & Stathopoulos are instrumental in new Department of Energy SciDAC initiative
The U.S. Department of Energy has directed $35 million to a multi-institution investigation of quantum chromodynamics. And William & Mary's Kostas Orginos is one of the leaders.
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William & Mary’s iGEM team returns from Paris bearing Gold
The competition was fierce, from the cream of the international research-university crop, and William & Mary brought home significant honors.
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William & Mary’s iGEM team is taking their chassis project to Paris
William & Mary's iGEM teams have been successful in iGEM international competitions, even winning the Grand Prize in 2015.
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Chlorophyll may biochemically recycle antioxidants
Those antioxidants that we're encouraged to include in our diet may be getting a boost from the "ultimate green molecule."
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NSF CAREER award: A ‘weird machines’ approach to more secure computer microarchitecture
Dmitry Evtyushkin wants to establish a new paradigm to make computers more resistant to "information leakage."
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Mentoring for Careers in Physics matches undergraduate women with established professionals
MCP pairs female undergrads 1:1 with women practicing physics/engineering outside of academia.
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Off-the-shelf crypto-detectors give a false sense of data security
A team of computer scientists outlines a leading reason behind insecure data and makes recommendations about how to fix the problem.
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Pondering at the pond: Crim Dell’s freshwater jellyfish make a mysterious and unexpected return
They may be brainless, but they have a mind of their own: the freshwater jellyfish of Crim Dell are back in bloom.
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Whimbrel flight study will inform decisions on Dominion’s offshore wind farm
New technology allows researchers to track the altitude of migrating shorebirds, data that will be taken into account in planning sites for offshore wind farm turbines.
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Geologist Nick Balascio is conducting high-latitude research in Norway as a Fulbright Scholar
Geologist Nick Balascio is one of William & Mary's two Fulbright Scholars for 2022-23. He will conduct research in Norway and engage with iEarth, the Norwegian initiative aimed at earth-science undergraduates.
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Chemistry partners with data science to develop a new investigative technique
Kristin Wustholz's chemistry lab has "planted a flag in the ground" regarding a new technique for multicolor single-molecule imaging.
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Chemists walk out in the morning dew … and come back bearing ‘biogrime’
Rachel O’Brien and a pair of undergraduate researchers get past the poetics and into the chemistry of dew.
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DOE funding will advance Monahan’s probe of the interior structure of the proton
Protons and neutrons make up 95 percent of all visible matter. The interior of each proton and neutron is a wild land of particles and antiparticles popping in and out of existence. William & Mary…
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APS fellowship helps complete transition from machine gunner to researcher
U.S. Marine Jacob Stechmann ’24 became interested in medicine by helping Army medics treat wounded Kurds in Syria. He now researches artery function at William & Mary.
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Anna Mehlhorn ’22 carries on a venerable tradition of combining art and science
Anna Mehlhorn has combined her biology major and art/art history minor to follow in the steps of the great naturalist-illustrators of the past.
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Caitlin Dolt emerges from the rabbit hole to cry ‘Io triumphe!’
An intriguing set of mysteries has surrounded William & Mary's first-edition copy of Isaac Newton's masterwork. Caitlin Dolt ‘22 brought her knowledge of Latin and physics to the task. (And also persistence: At one point,…
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Four graduate students honored with Sanderson Awards for Excellence in Undergraduate Mentoring
The S. Laurie Sanderson Awards for Excellence in Undergraduate Mentoring recognize the "under the radar" contributions of graduate students in the university's Arts & Sciences programs.
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A new, fine-grained map shows radon-gas risk zones in Williamsburg
Researchers in William & Mary's Department of Geology have been working since 1989 on mapping the presence of dangerous radon gas in and around Williamsburg,
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Charles Center announces first undergraduate Research Incubator program awards
The Roy R. Charles Center at William & Mary has announced its first slate of awards under the Faculty-Mentored Research Incubator program.
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Misinformation examination: How trust and distrust shift during COVID-19
Yifan Sun is a member of a team of scientists that surveyed social media users in Georgia and Massachusetts to gain insights on what pandemic-related information people accept — or what they don't.
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William & Mary physicist invited to White House fusion energy summit
Saskia Mordijck will take a brief leave from her plasma experiments in Los Angeles to participate in the March 17 White House Summit: Developing a Bold Decadal Vision for Commercial Fusion Energy.