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The Charles Center’s Research Ambassadors program strives to make undergraduate research more accessible for all students.

Thanks to the combined power of irrepressible curiosity, passionate faculty mentorship, and Charles Center Research in Motion grants, W&M undergraduates are connecting with students and scholars from across the country.

�鶹�ƽ��’s undergraduate iGEM team won a Gold Medal and was nominated for a major award at the iGEM Giant Jamboree, the annual conference and award ceremony of the International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) Foundation.

The American singer, songwriter, producer, visual artist and two-time Grammy winner Frank Ocean can now say that mathematics proves he’s the most influential artist of the 21st century.

A team of undergraduates at �鶹�ƽ�� has earned high honors in the world’s largest synthetic biology competition for engineering a potential COVID-19 therapeutic.

As the race for a COVID-19 vaccine presses on throughout the globe, a team of budding synthetic biologists at �鶹�ƽ�� are researching another equally critical tool in the fight against the novel coronavirus – therapeutics.

As the race for a COVID-19 vaccine presses on throughout the globe, a team of budding synthetic biologists at �鶹�ƽ�� are researching another equally critical tool in the fight against the novel coronavirus – therapeutics.

Grace Solini, a member of �鶹�ƽ��’s class of 2020, will receive the Thomas Jefferson Prize in Natural Philosophy.

The next big thing in materials science may already be here – and it’s clogging up your showerhead.

�鶹�ƽ��’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 �鶹�ƽ�� 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.

Likhitha Kolla is this year’s recipient of �鶹�ƽ��’s Thomas Jefferson Prize in Natural Philosophy. The award is endowed by the trustees of the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation to recognize excellence in the sciences and mathematics in an undergraduate student.

Halleran is the co-recipient of the 2016 Jefferson Prize, sharing the award with Isaac Alty, a chemistry and ancient Greek major.

An interdisciplinary team of �鶹�ƽ�� students have brought home one of the biggest prizes in synthetic biology, an honor that has been called the World Cup of Science.

�鶹�ƽ�� has logged an unusual "clean sweep" in a prestigious national scholarship program, with all four of the university's nominees winning Goldwater Scholarships.

Larry Leemis has been preparing a record number of students for success in the actuarial science field.

Drew LaMar is the principal investigator on a $935,551 NSF grant to form a virtual “hub,” where mathematicians and biologists can share information and ideas of best practices.