Spring 2024 awardees include section leader Amy Alyson Teller and clinical faculty member Debbie Ramer, plus five student organizations.
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Transformative impact of 2024 Plumeri Awards celebrated
Ten leading faculty are recognized with excellence awards.
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W&M Commencement awards celebrate individual excellence
Honorees demonstrated outstanding scholarship, service, leadership, teaching and character.
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W&M’s success preparing students for careers draws national praise
University receives Congressional funding to expand internship program; W&M president honored by national organization for university-wide effort.
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The advocate: Kristen Popham ’20 is a law student dedicated to advancing human rights
For her efforts to further gender equality around the world, Popham was awarded the prestigious Ruth Bader Ginsburg Memorial Scholarship by the New York State Bar Association on April 6.
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Osborne, Payne receive W&M’s 2024 Duke Award for exemplary accomplishments
Darrell Payne and Dorothy "Dot" Osborne are the 2024 Duke Award recipients.
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W&M classical studies professor receives highly selective Rome Prize
Only 2.9% of applicants were chosen for the honor, which supports research in the arts and humanities.
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W&M’s Annabel Richter ’24 receives selective Gaither Fellowship
In the last five years, five William & Mary students have been selected for James C. Gaither Junior Fellowships at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
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AAAS honors W&M biologists Allison and Swaddle as lifetime fellows
Professors Lizabeth Allison and John Swaddle have been recognized for excellence in research and student education.
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W&M professor receives Guggenheim Fellowship in Dance Studies
Emily Wilcox, associate professor of Chinese studies at William & Mary, has been selected to receive the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship in Dance Studies.
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Truth and ‘Fiction’
Oscar winner Cord Jefferson ’04 shares career advice during the Ampersand International Arts Festival.
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Rankings highlight Vision 2026’s Careers Initiative
W&M continues its values-based approach as rankings, job outcome listings are on the rise.
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W&M’s Christie S. Warren receives Fulbright Scholar Award for research in Sweden
Professor Christie S. Warren of William & Mary Law School has been awarded the Fulbright-Lund Distinguished Chair in Public International Law for the 2024-2025 academic year.
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Peel Hawthorne epitomizes Aceto Award attributes
The Aceto Award is awarded to a member of the instructional or professional faculty “who demonstrates an exceptional commitment to excellence in service to the campus community.”
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It’s just rocket science
William & Mary alumnus Russell “Buzz” Wincheski joins the NASA Inventors Hall of Fame.
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Power plays: W&M alumnae tap varsity sports experience to build winning careers
William & Mary alumnae athletes turned business and nonprofit executives share their stories.
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Home & hearth matter
Ted Decker '85 leads The Home Depot, the world's largest home improvement retailer.
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Just keep showing up
Kirsten Schimke Jones ’93 reflects on her journey from W&M volleyball star to helping families of young athletes create a supportive environment.
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Winter 2024 William & Mary alumni book roundup
Looking for an engaging read? Check out these new titles from W&M alumni.
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A personal playbook for life
Being an ‘outsider’ helped actor Stephanie Szostak ’94 find herself.
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W&M’s Irina Novikova named fellow of the American Physical Society
The award recognizes the excellence of her quantum physics research.
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Two William & Mary alumni selected as Schwarzman Scholars
Nitya Labh ’22 and Alton Coston ’23 have been awarded one of the world’s most prestigious graduate fellowships.
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Denys Poshyvanyk elevated to fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers
He becomes the fourth current member of William & Mary’s Department of Computer Science to achieve the distinction.
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W&M salutes students, employees for values in action
This fall’s faculty and staff award recipients are Charlie Foster, director of the Office of Student Veteran Engagement, and Michael Gaynes, teaching professor of art.
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Jen Mackesy ’91 celebrates National Women’s Soccer League title
Co-owned by Jennifer Tepper Mackesy '91, NJ/NY Gotham FC won the 2023 National Women's Soccer League Championship.
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Jill Ellis ’88, L.H.D. ’16 to be inducted into Virginia Sports Hall of Fame
The William & Mary alumna and former U.S. Women's National Team head soccer coach will be inducted into the hall of fame.
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W&M’s Christopher ‘Chuck’ Bailey elected president of the Geological Society of America
Bailey’s presidential address on Oct. 15 encompassed scientific research and communication themes that also describe his 27 years of teaching at W&M.
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‘Twice the Citizen’: W&M Law School dean promoted to major in Army Reserve JAG Corps
His dual roles perfectly reflect a motto of the Reserves — “Twice the Citizen” — captured in the two-headed eagle that adorns the official shoulder sleeve insignia of the U.S. Army Reserve Command.
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W&M grad student selected as 2023 Tillman Scholar
Evan Turner, a student in the Online Military and Veterans Counseling program at William & Mary, has been named a 2023 Tillman Scholar.
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Two Southside Virginia students awarded Beales Scholarships at William & Mary
Recipients are chosen based on academic performance, extracurricular community activities and service, outstanding character and other personal achievements.