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�鶹�ƽ�� Assistant Professor R. Benedito Ferrão will spend a year in Goa, employing the power of art and remembrance to actualize a modified understanding of the region’s cultural identity.

This summer, Carrie Cooper, dean of university libraries, represented �鶹�ƽ�� as a judge on the "Star of Outlook English Talent Competition," the largest, most influential English-speaking competition in China.

The Hixon Family Scholarship Endowment will provide undergraduate scholarships for students who are residents of African countries.

�鶹�ƽ�� has the highest percentage of undergraduates participating in study abroad programs compared to any other public university in the United States, according to a report released by the Institute of International Education.

Developing global partnerships and opportunities to collaborate internationally is a hallmark of the Educational Policy, Planning and Leadership Department (EPPL) at �鶹�ƽ��.

AidData, a 35-person research lab located within �鶹�ƽ��’s Institute for the Theory and Practice of International Relations, has received a $1.5 million grant from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.

De Seta is a practicing attorney in Naples, Italy, and is currently studying in the Law School’s LL.M. program, while maintaining his firm’s practice.

Claire Murphy '19 is a Biology major and Marine Science minor. She's currently on SIT's semester program, Australia: Rainforest, Reef & Cultural Ecology. One of the research projects has involved tracking platypuses.

History professor Gérard Chouin and other scholars will soon publish a group of four papers with new evidence supporting his hypothesis that the medieval bubonic plague epidemic spread to Sub-Saharan Africa.

The LL.M. program at �鶹�ƽ�� Law School offers students from all over the world the chance to explore the American legal system while also being a part of the �鶹�ƽ�� student community.

William and Mary alumna Soh Yeong Roh ’84 will deliver the 2017 George Tayloe Ross Address on International Peace. Her talk, entitled Neotopia: Technology and Humanity, will be held Tuesday, October 10, 2017, at 5pm in Brinkley Commons, at the Raymond A. Mason School of Business, 101 Ukrop Way. The lecture is free and open to the public.

�鶹�ƽ��ing scholars are able to use the Wolf Law Library and all of its resources to dive deeper into their particular areas of interest and become acquainted with different language sources.

Some of the top business and government officials from the United States and Spain — including the defense leaders of both countries — gathered at �鶹�ƽ�� on Saturday as part of the 2017 U.S.-Spain Council Forum.

Anne Rasmussen, �鶹�ƽ�� professor of music and ethnomusicology, spent the first six months of this year as a Fulbright U.S. Scholar researching Islamic music in Indonesia.

Geology professors Christopher Bailey and Nicolas Balascio melded a class field trip with an NSF-funded research project above the Arctic Circle in Norway.

ITPIR's third Shark Tank competition proved the power of research, collaboration, mentoring and creative approaches to using data in solving real world problems.

The Confucius Institute at �鶹�ƽ�� recently completed its annual Chinese Culture Summer Camp for eight lucky youngsters.

A contingent of �鶹�ƽ�� students worked and studied this summer at CERN, the European high-energy physics facility renowned as the site of the discovery of the Higgs boson.

On July 15, 2017, �鶹�ƽ�� will welcome 25 of Africa’s brightest, emerging civic leaders for 15 days of leadership training, public policy seminars, mentorship and collaboration with local faculty and community members.

�鶹�ƽ�� singers started off in their usual formal performance mode. But by the end of their summer trip to South Africa, the W&M Choir and Botetourt Chamber Singers had warmed up to a very different way of experiencing music.

Terra Alpha Investments advocates for companies to adopt environmentally smart practices.

Twitter may be quicker, but when it comes to matters of utmost international importance, W&M Government Professor Marcus Holmes says nothing can beat good old-fashioned face-to-face interaction between world leaders.

Shelle Butler is going to Amsterdam this summer to work with some of the world’s most highly valued works of art.

Walter Isaacson, president and CEO of the Aspen Institute, best-selling author and former chairman and CEO of CNN, served as the keynote speaker at �鶹�ƽ��’s 2017 Commencement ceremony.

Lorraine Pettit graduates Saturday with degrees in government and French and Francophone Studies, research trips to South Africa and France on her resume, and campus memories to savor.

People have been using these portage routes since the stone age. Mallory Moran is using a Canadian Fulbright Fellowship to pick up their story.

The personal papers of �鶹�ƽ�� Chancellor and former U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates ’65, L.H.D. ’98 are now open to researchers and the public.

The pursuit of education has taken QuynhNhu Phan '17 around the world.

Military, government and academic experts regarding the United States’ Armed Forces spoke to a crowd of about 100 at the second annual All-Volunteer Force Symposium April 27 at �鶹�ƽ��’s Sadler Center.

The gift will fund endowments and need-based fellowships/internships, among other priorities, in �鶹�ƽ��'s Institute for the Theory & Practice of International Relations and Public Policy Program.

W&M students at Swem Library are helping transcribe the thousands of royal documents being released to the public online.

W&M maintained its exceptional track record with the Fulbright program with 12 grads heading abroad for the 2017-18 academic year.

The William and Mary Confucius Institute sponsors a unique cross-cultural opportunity in Williamsburg.

Representing New Zealand, the team ended with a top-five small delegation finish. Eight students won individual commendation or diplomacy awards.

According to Clayton J. Cleveland, governments of countries around the world are more likely to work together in joint military operations because the monetary costs of unilateral action are becoming too high and are being viewed as politically inappropriate.

Professor Bill—the Reves Center’s Founding Director—died in 2015 after a long illness. This conference in his honor will provide an opportunity for those have been inspired by his scholarly, institutional, policy and pedagogical contributions to gather together to reflect on his life and career, and on the topic which he cared about most deeply.

Ann Marie Stock, a longtime campus leader known for her work around internationalization, will be �鶹�ƽ��’s next vice provost for academic and faculty affairs.

Senior Lecturer of Africana Studies and Linguistics Iyabo F. Osiapem teaches a class on Rastafari.

Dania Matos may be �鶹�ƽ��’s first deputy chief diversity officer, but her mission is something she wants the entire campus community to share.

Professor Darryl Cunningham helps LL.M. students get practical skills through his Family Law clinic and the Legal Aid Society of Eastern Virginia.

�鶹�ƽ�� is one of the country’s top producers of Peace Corps volunteers, according to a report released by the organization today.

The documentary film on the Bosnian War, was shown first at the university on Feb. 21, in part in response to W&M's 20-year-old Bosnia Project. It will continue being shown at other American colleges and universities.

Photos and illustrations illuminating the lives of Buffalo Soldiers during the Philippine-American War are currently on display in Swem Library’s Botetourt Gallery as part of an exhibit organized by the �鶹�ƽ�� Asian & Pacific Islander American Studies program.

After years-long research on the lives, struggles and performance culture of Pakistani “female spirited” transgender communities, known as hijras, Professor Claire Pamment is exploring spaces beyond the gender binary through theatre.

Robert M. Gates, former Secretary of Defense, discussed current world issues during a 90-minute question-and-answer event at Phi Beta Kappa Hall on Feb. 9. W&M President Taylor Reveley moderated.

Hundreds of members of the campus and local communities gathered in the Sunken Garden Thursday for the "No Ban in My Name" rally.

Doug Bunch's Global Playground aims to raise awareness and share resources with people of the developing world to create educational opportunities where they do not exist.

The first phase of the Georgian Papers Programme – roughly 33,000 digitized documents, including some penned by King George III regarding the American Revolution – will be publicly released and accessible at no cost beginning Saturday, Jan. 28. �鶹�ƽ�� and the Omohundro Institute are the primary U.S. partners on the international project.

The new semester brings with it a vast array of opportunities for people to enjoy the arts at �鶹�ƽ��.

The Whole of Government Center of Excellence, a new track within the W&M Master of Public Policy Program, will train civilian and military leaders to think holistically when dealing with issues of national security.

The Reves Center presents the 2017 George Tayloe Ross Address on International Peace by Sir Hilary Beckles, Vice Chancellor, University of the West Indies and Chairman of the Caribbean Community Commission on Reparation and Social Justice.

�鶹�ƽ�� archaeologist Neil Norman found some almost unbelievably ancient stone tools at a site on the horn of Africa.