Arts & Sciences Events

Greg Smith, Department of Applied Science, College of William and Mary

We will screen "Berlin - Sinfonie einer Grossstadt"

Applications will be accepted for Beijing, Cape Town, Montpellier, Santiago de Compostela, Siracusa, and St. Petersburg until February 8, 2012.

RPSS's spring film series begins February 2nd, at 5 p.m. in Washington Hall 201.

Two concurrent one-hour panel sessions with Q&A, one in the humanities/social sciences and one in the natural/computational sciences, followed by a dessert reception.

Are you an Arts and Science student wondering how to start your career? Please join us for an opportunity to have lunch with Craig Anzalone and receive one-on-one coaching on how to apply your A&S degree.

Kevin Quinlan's Brown Bag on his senior research in the Scottsville Mesozoic Basin.

Invited Speaker, Andrew Bailey, University of Notre Dame

Join Alexandra as she performs her Senior Recital, featuring works of Bellini, Schubert, Strauss, Debussy and Barber.

Annual Gala with The William and Mary Botetourt Chamber Singers, Dr. Jamie C. Barlett, Conductor. Featuring: Harris Simon, piano and harmonica, The William & Mary Jazz Ensemble, Dr. Paul Bhasin, director, and The Wham Bam Big Band.

The College of William and Mary's Lemon Project and Department of Theatre, Speech and Dance presents The Lemon Project Celebration of Dance Sun., Feb. 5 at 3 p.m.

Invited Speaker, Chris Frey, University of Chicago

John McGlennon, chair of the government department, will hold two information sessions for majors and prospective majors.

Are you considering a teaching career with your science or math degree? Learn how the Teachers for a Competitive Tomorrow and Noyce programs provide funding for summer internships and up to $10,000 in yearly scholarship support.

Screening of "Circle of Deceit" ("Die Faelschung", 1981, dir. by Volker Schloendorff)

Eddy Zhang (William & Mary) discusses compiler and runtime support for the rapid increase of parallelism, the rise of heterogeneity and the diversity of memory devices.

Senior Rachael Tatman will present her Honors Project research.

Emily Wilcox, Modern Languages and Literatures, will give a talk called "Is Heritage Gendered? Debates Over Female Movement in the Making of Chinese Classical Dance."

John McGlennon, chair of the government department, will hold two information sessions for majors and prospective majors.

Dr. Eric Horsman will be visiting from East Carolina University to talk about deformation variation around the San Andreas Fault.

Brother 2, Wednesday, Feb. 8.

"fine singers who blend and balance...." Joan Reinthaler, The Washington Post "consistently beautiful performance ...because of their exotic inscrutability...."Charles T. Downey, The Washington Post

A lecture by Dr. Pawan Dhingra, Oberlin College and the Smithsonian Indian-American Heritage Project. Sponsored by: Asian Middle Eastern Studies Program, the India Initiative and Sociology

A lecture by Dr. Pawan Dhingra, Oberlin College and the Smithsonian Indian-American Heritage Project. Sponsored by: Asian Middle Eastern Studies Program, the India Initiative and Sociology

Speaker: Pawan Dhingra, Title of presentation: 'I Didn't Pick This Country': Immigrants' Global Trajectory and Dissatisfaction in U.S. Entrepreneurship"

Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, Professor of Political Science at NYU, will lecture and take questions on his new book entitled, "The Dictator's Handbook: Why Bad Behavior is Almost Always Good Politics."

The first spring Policy Dialogue is on February 10th. The theme is "The Executive/Agency Side of Policy" and we will have three speakers.

Lev Reyzin (Georgia Tech) will discuss learning interaction network and the classical multiarmed bandit problem.

The Division of Consolidated Laboratory Services provides analytical testing services for agencies of the Commonwealth of Virginia, local government, federal agencies and other states. DCLS scientists will highlight exciting student opportunities.

Presented by Richard Engler, Office of Pollution, Prevention, and Toxics at the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

Katie Clough and Andrew Bessler will present their Honors project research.

John Bruno of the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill will discuss the poor health of coral reefs in Florida and the many threats facing coral reefs around the world.

Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, Professor of Political Science at NYU, will lecture and take questions on his new book entitled, "The Dictator's Handbook: Why Bad Behavior is Almost Always Good Politics."

Juliette Mammei, University of Massachusetts, Title of Talk: "The Precision vs. the Energy Frontier - Testing the Standard Model at Jefferson Lab"

Stephen Hurley and Emily Matson will present their Honors projects.

Invited Speaker, Chris Tucker, University of Auckland

The Repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell: Presentations by Professor Shannon Gilreath of Wake Forest University School of Law and Ms. Michelle Benecke of the Servicemembers Legal Defense Network.

Grab some friends to make a team of up to 4 people to design and create an outfit using a variety of materials given to you Project Runway style!

Come to Tidewater in the Sadler Center with a team of four to design an outfit with the given materials and win a year of Netflix! Not a designer? Watch the teams work, episodes of Project Runway and vote for the winner!

Come to the Psychology Department in the ISC to sign up for a major declaration advising appointment.

Five W&M law students will present papers addressing issues regarding the interface of law with current matters of bioethical and health law concern. A paper will be presented each day at 1 p.m. in Rm. 119. Free and the public is welcome.

Alexandria Brown will present her Honors Project research.

Larissa Kruesi and Ian Goodrum will present their Honors project research.

Ari Cukierman will present his Honors Project research.

Invited Speaker, Douglas Portmore, Arizona State University

Interested in doing an honors thesis in Government, Public Policy or International Relations? Professors Mike Tierney and Paul Manna will answer your most pressing questions.

Leksa Pravdic and Jacob Lassin will present their Honors project research.

Fiesta de Baile del Cono Sur

Danielle Greene will present her Honors Project research.

Rebecca Koenig and Elizabeth Wallace will present their Honors Project research.

Senior Madeline Chessman will present her Honors Project research.

Jacqueline Stykes and Becky Little will present their Honors Project research.

Collin McMillan (W&M) discusses structural information such as function calls and API usage to locate relevant source code, which can be reused in programmers' projects.

Ksenija Kapetanovic and Kathryn Rehain will present their Honors project research.

Senior Kenay Sudler will present her Honors Project research.

Please join the Africana House in welcoming Professor Jody Allen for tea and an interesting discussion. Come take a break to relax with refreshments and a enjoy a great talk. Please encourage students to come out to this event as well!

Ann Katherine Allen will present her Honors Project research.

Dr. John Miller (University of Virginia) on Virgil's Salian Hymn to Hercules

Senior Andrew Ojeda will present his Honors Project research.

Introduced by Professor Yanfang Tang, Suzhou River is being screened as part of the annual Global Film Festival.

The fifth annual W&M Global Film Festival is scheduled for Feb 16-19. The 2012 theme is Global Film and the City. Sponsored by the Reves Center for International Studies.

The 5th annual William & Mary Global Film Festival's theme will be "The City." Check back here or at the GFF website (http://filmfestival.wm.edu/) in Fall 2011 for developing information.

Join a presentation by Laith Ulaby during Dr. Anne Rasmussen's Music and Nationalism Class. Open to the public.

Senior Patrick King will present his Honors Project research.

Chris Tyson and Timothy Becker will present their Honors Project research.

Class of 1939 Artist-in-Residence, Gillian Pederson-Krag, will talk about her artwork. Thursday, Feb. 16, 4:30 p.m., Andrews 101

Feb 16, Th 5:30 Washington 201 Eastern Promises (dir. David Cronenberg, Canada, USA, UK 2007) Introduced by Rachel Faith

By Annie Baker Directed by Larissa Kruesi '12

Travel to Georgetown with the W&M Career Center to find a job or internship in the nonprofit and government sectors!

Hank Hoffmann (MIT) discusses a radical approach that is capable of meeting the constraints of modern computing systems by adding a self-awareness dimension to computational models.

Lecture at the Reves Center by Laith Ulaby. Refreshment to follow.

Senior Emma Caverly gives a brown bag about her thesis research on organic Carbon export in agricultural runoff.

Speaker: Gwen Spencer, Cornell University

Professor David Herman, Chair of the Slavic Department at the University of Virginia, will be giving a lecture about Tolstoy and his fiction on February 17th at 3 pm.

David Mullins of Oak Ridge National Laboratory presents "Chemistry in Two Dimensions: Surface Science and Heterogeneous Catalysis"

Elucidating the role of developmental regulators in Arabidopsis root patterning

By Annie Baker Directed by Larissa Kruesi '12

Coffee hour with Tokyo rock band The Suzan Feb. 18 at 1:30.

Sponsored by the Center for Student Diversity and the Department of Music

Organized by the Chinese Student Organization at William & Mary, the parade starts at Sadler Center and ends in front of Kimball Theater at Merchant's Square.

Feature event on Global Film Festival's "China's Urban Filmmaking" co-Sponsored by the William and Mary Confucius Institute

By Annie Baker Directed by Larissa Kruesi '12

Bodrov's "Prisoner of the Mountains"

The W&M Wind Symphony performs well-known popular classics in this culminating event of the 2012 W&M Global Film Festival.

Senior Elizabeth Childress will present her Honors project research.

Leigh Gayle and Stephanie Kane will present their Honors project research.

Senior Ellie Walsh will present her Honors project research.

Charles Ritinski and Eric Ames will present their Honors project research.

Kraemer Lecture delivered by Asma Afsaruddin, Chair and Professor of the Department of Near Eastern Languages & Cultures at Indiana University, Bloomington. This lecture is open to the public.

William and Mary Medical Relief Nicaragua is looking for new 2012-2013 team members! APPLY by March 16, 2012. The WMMR winter break trip to Nicaragua is especially of interest to pre-meds & pre-dents who are looking for some international aid experience.

Senior Lindsay Hundley will present her Honors project research.

Lecture by Kraemer Islamic Scholar Asma Afsaruddin, Competing Visions of the Shari'a: The Real Clash in the Islamic World. Free. All are welcome. Sponsored by the Program in Comparative Legal Studies and Post-Conflict Peacebuilding and the Reves Center.

Nicky Bell and Devin Braun will present their Honors project research.

Professor Laura A. Heymann, William & Mary Class of 2014 Professor of Law, will present the 2012 Blackstone Lecture titled "Dialogues of Authenticity." Free and the public is welcome.

Andrew Frantz and Diana Ohanian will present their Honors project research.

Learn about the importance of doing an internship from a panel of representatives at three organizations offering internships for computer science students. You will also have an opportunity to network individually with each panelist.

Phi Alpha Delta Undergraduate Pre-Law Fraternity Hosts LSAT Workshop with TestMasters

Im Rahmen der Filmserie und des Filmabends wird Fassbinders "Effi Briest" aus dem Jahre 1974 gezeigt.

Senior Matthew Sparacino will present his Honors project research.

Austin Strange and John Kirn will present their Honors project research.

Join the Music in American Culture Series for a public lecture by Ali Colleen Neff, Doctoral candidate at UNC-Chapel Hill.

Heightened security pushed illegal border-crossers into the treacherous Arizona desert in unprecedented numbers. This influx and the attendant rising death toll have elicited complicated feelings about human rights, labor, and national security.

Kirk W. Cameron (Virginia Tech) discusses the motivation and challenges facing the Green Computing movement in HPC.

Tracey L. Meares, the Walton Hale Hamilton Professor of Law at Yale Law School, will present the 2012 Wythe Lecture titled "The Good Cop: Knowing the Difference Between Lawful or Effective Policing and Rightful Policing (and Why It Matters)." Free.

Co-sponsored by: Reves Distinguished Lecture Series, Latin American Studies, Latin American Student Union, Department of History

Activist Mike Wilson will be speaking on campus as part of Border Awareness Week sponsored by Latin American Studies and the Latin American Students Union.

Human rights activist Mike Wilson will deliver a talk entitled: "Migrant Deaths in Indian Country: A Violation of Human Rights in the Name of Homeland Security"

Join the Music in American Culture Series for a public lecture by Anthony Kwame Harrison, Associate Professor of Sociology and Africana Studies at Virginia Tech.

The final film in the Russian Studies "Cinema/City/Migration" film series. When a father and son from the Uzbek steppe move to Moscow in search of the boy's missing mother they are condemned to the lot of the 'gastarbeiter'.

The next, and final, film in this semester's film series, Russians: Cinema, City, Migration, Another Sky (dir. Dmitry Mamulya, Russia 2010), will be screened Thursday, Feb. 23, at 5:30 p.m. in Washington 302. It will be introduced by Sophie Kosar.

By Tennessee Williams Directed by Richard Palmer

Yizhou Sun (UIUC) discusses the problem of mining heterogeneous information networks, by leveraging the semantic meanings of the types of objects and links in a network.

W&M Viol Consort in masterclass with baroque musician John Mark Rozendaal. Open to the public.

Are TV crime shows accurate? What is life really like in a forensic science lab? Find out when a scientist from the Virginia Department of Forensic Science discusses career opportunities in the field and highlights lab activities in the Richmond facility.

Students who have conducted research in the sciences will present their work at the 18th Annual Science Symposium.

Steven Weinberg, University of Texas, Title of Talk: "The Dark Universe."

Dr. Lynne Parenti of the Smithsonian Institution will explore the links between biology and geology at all scales, and the importance of recognizing and classifying natural biogeographic regions.

Title: "Everyone Poops and Other Tales from Prehistory"

Invited Speaker, Susan Wolf (UNC Chapel Hill), "Love: The Basic Questions."

"A graceful, energetic ensemble..."Allan Kozinn, The New York Times

By Tennessee Williams Directed by Richard Palmer

Please join Melissa Workman as she presents her Senior Recital on French Horn and Piano.

By Tennessee Williams Directed by Richard Palmer

By Tennessee Williams Directed by Richard Palmer

Join Soprano Kate Allen as she presents her Senior Recital featuring the works of Puccini, Copland, Rogers and Hammerstein, Kern, Lloyd Weber and many more.

Please join the students of RUSN 308 this Sunday, February 26th, at 7 pm in Washington 201 for a screening of Alexander Sokurov's "Alexandra."

Come celebrate one of the biggest nights for film lovers...The 84th Academy Awards!

Catholic Campus Ministries is located at the corner of Richmond Road and Harrison Ave. Admission is free!

Christoph Treude (University of Victoria) discusses how social media artifacts such as tags, feeds and dashboards, bridge lightweight and heavyweight task management in software development.

Invited Speaker, Mark LeBar, Ohio University

Join Warrenetta Mann & Patrick Hudgins from the W&M Counseling Center, and WMSURE co-directors Anne H. Charity Hudley and Cheryl Dickter for a conversation on solo status and stereotype threat.

Hakan Friman, an international criminal law scholar, will speak about the crime of aggression and the Kampala amendments to the ICC Statute and the new crime of aggression as agreed last year at the Kampala Review Conference.

Learn about the Psychology Major and Minor requirements.

This is an informal meeting for those interested in a psychology major or minor.

Bartok's last composition, the Piano Concerto No. 3, is crisp, clear and exhilarating. W&M's own Anna Kijanowska joins us on the piano for this rollicking show of both virtuosity and inward reflection.

Learn about exciting internship opportunities for science students across a variety of areas. The Disney Science Internship Coordinator will highlight programs and explain the application process.

Invited Speaker, James Beebe, SUNY Buffalo

Learn about the curriculum, courses, policies, advising process and possible careers for both pre-med & non-pre-med students. Sign-up for an NSCI advisor at the meeting.

Partly funded by the Reves Center for International Studies.

The Department of Art & Art History and Andrews Gallery present: "Tonic" Ceramic work by Mike Jabbur