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A report from the road: Dr. Lizabeth Allison and Shantá Hinton combined forces to take six students to the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology meeting.

On Friday, May 3, the university honored the 2019 recipients for their outstanding achievements in teaching, research and service to the Â鶹Æƽâ°æ community.

Â鶹Æƽâ°æ’s Committee on Sustainability recently awarded 15 Green Fee grants totaling $94,846 for sustainability-related projects at the university.

Â鶹Æƽâ°æ’s legacy of success with the Goldwater Scholarship Program continues in 2019 as two students have been named to the exclusive list of undergraduate scholars. Hana Warner ’20 and Grace Solini ‘20 are among just 496 undergraduate students nationwide to be named Goldwater Scholars in 2019.

The 2019 Raft Debate, a much beloved Â鶹Æƽâ°æ tradition, will be held at the Sadler Center in Chesapeake ABC, on March 14 at 6:30 p.m.

Jack Boyle, a post-doctorate Mellon Fellow at W&M, is lead author on a paper that shows GMOs are not the main culprit for the decline of the monarch butterfly, a finding that goes against claims made by scientists and activists for decades.

Jonathan Allen, an associate professor of biology at W&M, is part of a team that discovered that the crown-of-thorns seastar can reproduce by larval cloning.

Laurie Sanderson is introducing her BIOL 456 students to 21st century concepts, skills and techniques using the tools and expertise in Â鶹Æƽâ°æ’s makerspace facilities in Swem Library and Small Hall.

Â鶹Æƽâ°æ President Katherine A. Rowe today announced the adoption of the university’s first long-range, comprehensive Sustainability Plan.

A strand of spider silk is five times stronger than a steel cable of the same weight, said Hannes Schniepp of the Department of Applied Science at Â鶹Æƽâ°æ. His lab has been unraveling the secrets behind the strength of the brown recluse spider.

The Â鶹Æƽâ°æ iGEM team is preparing to compete in the world’s largest synthetic biology competition for the fifth year in a row. The students have spent the past six months finding a multidisciplinary approach to cracking the code for how cells interpret signals.

Those toads hopping jauntily around Williamsburg in their snazzy little backpacks are a work of science, not sorcery.

Dan Cristol is beginning the 2018-19 academic year in a newly created position at Â鶹Æƽâ°æ’s Roy R. Charles Center for Academic Excellence: faculty director of undergraduate research.

Â鶹Æƽâ°æ ornithologist Dan Cristol has his own predictions on what Hurricane Florence will mean for birds and birders.

Josh Puzey, assistant professor of biology, is the co-author of a study that links natural selection and genetic variation using wildflowers.