Arts & Sciences Events

Tim Carlson, the codirector of IFE, a French institute which allows you to study and do an internship in Paris, Strasbourg or Brussel, will be on campus on September 4th. Come meet Tim to learn about this great program

Meet with Dominique Miles from American University of Cairo (AUC) about semester and summer study abroad programs in Cairo, Egypt.

First meeting of the Latin American Student Union, LASU.

The Institute of Bill of Rights Law: Student Division, American Constitution Society, Federalist Society, and Student Intellectual Property Society would like to invite W&M's pre-law students to join us for the Privacy & Technology Symposium. This event w

Chinese language and culture courses open to the College and local community.

Please join us for this opportunity to learn about strategy consulting careers and to practice consulting cases with industry professionals. A free lunch will be provided.

Come see Alex "The Butcher" Johnson present our first Brown Bag of the year. Bring a lunch and chow down as you're regaled with tales of his thrilling exploits!

by Kyle Bradford, Oregon State University

Andrew Pyles, who has been nominated for a 2012-13 Park Graduate Award, will discuss WiFi power management on Smartphones.

"Methicillin resistance in Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA): a model for the dissemination of antibiotic resistance genes"

Speaker: Oleg Shpyrko (University of California San Diego) Title: X-ray Nanovision

The Workshop will be held on our Virginia Beach campus in the law school starting at 8:30 a.m. both Saturdays, September 8 & 15.

Davison Douglas, Dean and Arthur B. Hanson Professor of Law at the W&M Law School, will give a talk called "Pauli Murray and the Pursuit of American Democracy." Everyone is welcome and light refreshments will be served.

This workshop is aimed at those applying to law school within the next academic year, or those who are graduating in December or May and plan to apply to law school at some point after graduation.

(Posted 9 May 2012) This brief discussion will help students of all ages to cope, to self-soothe and to flourish.

Learn about voting rights restoration in Virginia and volunteer in a new student-run clinic to assist individuals with voting rights restoration applications.

Please join the W&M Department of Music and the Music in American Cultures lecture series for a presentation by Dr. Christian McWhirter, assistant editor for the Papers of Abraham Lincoln at the National Archives.

The Hampton Roads Alliance for Environmental Education will hold its annual meeting at VIMS. The conference theme is "Keeping Hampton Roads G.R.E.E.N."

Ceramic sculptor Andrea Keys Connell exhibits her work at Andrews Gallery, Sept. 13 - Oct. 11

Dr. Sue Rankin is a Senior Research Associate in the Center for the Study of Higher Education at Pennsylvania State University. She will also present "Building Inclusive Communities: The State of Higher Education for LGBT People" at 7 p.m.

Va. Attorney General Kenneth Cuccinelli will present a lecture titled "Balancing Power: Federalism, the State, and Individual Rights" on September 13 at 1 p.m. in room 119 of the Law School. Free and the public is welcome.

Ceramic sculptor Andrea Keys Connell exhibits her work at Andrews Gallery Artist talk at 4 p.m., Thursday, September 13, with reception to follow.

The Reves Center for International Studies, in conjunction with the Department of Government, the International Relations Program and the Institute for the Theory and Practice of International Relations at the College of William & Mary

Dr. Sue Rankin is a Senior Research Associate in the Center for the Study of Higher Education at Pennsylvania State University. She will also facilitate a brown-bag discussion on Creating Inclusive Classrooms with faculty at 12 p.m. in Blow Hall 201.

The DHS Office of Public Affairs (OPA) is responsible for managing external and internal communications.

The Friday Dialogues are held at the William & Mary Washington office, located in the Carnegie Endowment building near Dupont Circle. Typically, speakers address the group in a conference room setting, with a break for lunch in the middle.

Meet with Raquel Ramirez from International Studies Abroad (ISA) about semester and summer study abroad programs around the world.

Meet with Katie Jafarli from the Council on International Educational Exchange (CIEE) about semester and summer study abroad programs around the world.

Julia Maciel, the Former Minister of Planning of Paraguay (2005-2006), will be giving a presentation in Blow 201 on Friday, September 14, at 2:00pm.

Laura Sheppardson, University of Mississippi Bicircular Matroid Designs

Quick, Simple, and Easy Solutions to Hard Software Problems

"Using R and information-theoretical statistics approaches in undergraduate research"

Are you interested in spending a semester in France, taking courses at a French Universit?, and living with a French family? The deadline to apply to William & Mary's Study Abroad Program in Montpellier is October, 1st

Come enjoy some food, mingle with faculty and hear more about the organization. The current menu is a taco bar catered by Moe's Southwest Grill.

Open enrollment for courses in Beginning Chinese I, Business Chinese, Calligraphy and Paper Cutting.

Interested in applying for a Gilman Scholarship? Interested in W&M's program in La Plata, Argentina? Interested in both? Join us for a conversation!

Meet with Lindsay Orchard from ASE about semester and summer study abroad programs in Bath, England.

Social networking is part of your job search strategy.

If you want to know what classes you can take next, the list of Course offered in French and Francophone Studies for the Spring of 2013 is available now on the French and Francophone section website.

The National Institute of Standards and Technology offers a valuable summer internship experience to students in the sciences.

Meeting of the Latin-American Student Union, LASU

Speaker: Dr. Frank A. Narducci (Associate Editor Physical Review Letters/Physical Review) Title: Successfully publishing in Physical Review Letters/The Physical Review

The Global Education at the Reves Center will offer a special program just for you on Thursday, September 20 from 4 -6 pm in the Reves Room

A film about life in "solares," public housing units in Havana. Panel discussion following screening led by the documentary's filmmakers Maria Elena Perez and Duniesky Canton Fernandez.

Speaker: Dr. Frank A. Narducci (Naval Air Systems Command) Title: A Magnetometer and Gradient Magnetometer Atom Interferometer

Come see Kyle Stark talk about his research into fecal coliform at the Jamestown colony. Bring a lunch and join us for our second brown bag presentation of the semester!

Speaker: Anke van Zuylen, William and Mary Title: Algorithms for Aggregating Structured Information

Hao Han, who has been nominated for a 2012-13 Park Graduate Award, will discuss improving the power efficiency of Wi-Fi tethering.

"Virus Hunting in the Age of Metagenomics"

Speaker: Kevin Pitts (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Title: Three Decades of the CDF Experiment, Many Decades of Sensitivity

Join W&M Applied Faculty members Stephanie Nakasian and Harris Simon as they celebrate the release of their new CD. Part of the Dewey Decibel Series at the Williamsburg Regional Library.

Dance the night away to Arabic, Persian, and Turkish music!

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Students who received summer research scholarships from the Charles Center will present their work in poster and oral presentation sessions during the week of September 24-28.

There are many potential career paths to pursue with a science degree. Learn about your options and how to best prepare to travel your chosen path.

Swem Library marks the 50th Anniversary of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring with a documentary film, panel discussion and reception.

Professor Katherine Preston will present a talk titled "Musicks of Various and Sundrie Kinds: The Musical Soundscape of Williamsburg in the Late 18th Century"

The second film in this fall's film series, Russia: Performing Gender and Sexuality Onscreen, hosted by the Russian Section and RPSS.

Distinguished Professor and current President of the Mineralogical Society of America, Dr. Michael Hochella from Virginia Tech presents our first Geology seminar of the semester!

Informational meeting on Field Research on the US-Mexico Border, a Winter Break project on Immigration, Border Studies and Human Rights.

Come to an informational meeting about this one-credit guided research course, January 6-13, 2013.

W&M Music faculty member Tom Marshall will be performing as part of an ensemble presenting music from the courts, chapel and concert halls of the 17th and 18th centuries.

This two-day conference with 8 prestigious speakers will explore themes from the work of P. F. Strawson in contemporary moral philosophy, psychology, and the law, including new work on blame, punishment, and the moral emotions.

This event brings to campus representatives from up to 100 graduate and professional schools and programs across the country. Students can learn about specific programs and discuss the application process with informed representatives of the schools.

Paul E. Galanti, USN Ret., will give a talk about his experiences as a prisoner of war in Vietnam from 1966-1973 and the remarkable aspects of his life and career afterwards.

It is a wonderful opportunity for IR Faculty and students to get together and celebrate new academic year.

Professor John MacKay of Yale University will be giving a talk on Vertov's groundbreaking film, Man with a Movie Camera (1929), on Thursday, September 27, at 5 p.m. in Washington 201.

Professor John MacKay Director of Film Studies Program Yale University

From Oscar- and Emmy-nominated filmmaker Kirby Dick comes The Invisible War, a groundbreaking investigative documentary about one of America's most shameful and best kept secrets: the epidemic of rape within the U.S. military. Discussion to follow.

Join professor Ryan Carnegie for VIMS' After Hours lecture as he explores how development of disease resistance among Bay oysters calls for a shift in restoration strategies. {{ http://www.vims.edu/public/afterhours/registration/sept.php,Register here.}}

W&M Chinese House will screen an action comedy flim "Let the Bullets Fly" on Thursday, Sept. 27.

Join us at the 2012-2013 Preview ... The Institute of Bill of Rights Law at William & Mary Law School marks the commencement of the new term of the United States Supreme Court each fall with its Supreme Court Preview.

This exhibition presents 100 works dating from the 1920s through the 1990s by 43 black artists who participated in the multivalent dialogues about art, identity and the rights of the individual that engaged American society.

Peter Steele gives the Geology department the lowdown on his summer spent siting seismometers for the EarthScope program. Bring your lunch and start the weekend a little early!

Professor Erwin Chemerinsky of the UC Irvine School of Law will present the W&M 2012 Constitution Day Lecture titled "The Roberts Court at Age Seven" on Sept. 28 at 12:50 in rm 127 at the Law School. Free and all are welcome. Sponsored by IBRL.

Nan Zheng, who has been nominated for a 2012-13 Park Graduate Award, will discuss a user verification system using mouse dynamics.

Professor Emeritus Orrin Pilkey of Duke University examines human interactions with the shoreline in light of rising sea level, storm activity, and beach erosion.

"Zooplankton and biogeochemical cycling in the changing ecosystem of the West Antarctic Peninsula"

Mary Odekon, Skidmore College Title of Talk: Do Stars Really Form in Clusters?

Information session on the Cadiz, Spain summer program as well as the La Plata, Argentina and Seville, Spain semester programs.

Drs. Richard and Sally Price will be our keynote speakers, discussing their work on Romare Bearden and the history of African American Art: Harlem Renaissance, Civil Rights Era, and Beyond.

The Family Weekend Concert will feature the W&M Wind Symphony, W&M Symphony Orchestra, W&M Choir and W&M Women's Chorus.

Extended Deadline for Conference Papers

A little talk about next to nothing --- Nature's little neutral one, the neutrino, is the lightest and most weakly interacting of the known zoo of particles that make up our world, but it may hold the key to understanding our Universe.

The Middle Eastern Music Ensemble performs new repertoire for a new season in the Muscarelle Museum, upstairs gallery.

Join us for the first Ewell Concert of the 2012-2013 season! W&M Performing Arts faculty member Maria Yefimova presents a tribute to Claude Debussy.

Sponsored by the William & Mary Confucius Institute. Free and open to the public. Tickets required, available from WMCI and Kimball Theatre.

The deadline for submitting a Fulbright application for 2013-2014 is September 12 at noon!

The collection of vases helps showcase the development of Attic pottery, beginning with the patterned decoration of the Geometric Amphora and ending with the later red-figure decoration of the Attic Red-Figure Column Krater by the Orestes Painter.

"Open Minds: An Exhibit of Psychology Department Faculty Publications" displays significant published works and awards won by this outstanding group of faculty members.