This semester we feature five lectures by AMES fabulous faculty, each of whom volunteered to offer a view into their current projects or recently published research.

Family Weekend features events and special programs designed to showcase life at William & Mary. Learn about world-class faculty, experience special performances from one of many talented student groups, and connect with families from across the nation.

The student Election Law Society is hosting five events in their Voting in 2020 Lunch Series.

Annual Physics Open house goes virtual! This year we will explore the "The Art of Physics"  in which Art and Science merge together! We offer engaging and fun physics activities for all ages.

Modern Arabic Poetry Reading

Dr. Stefani Crabtree from Utah State University will give a talk on archaecology. 

Hear from Professor Silvia Tandeciarz as she explores the power of arts and humanities in democratization and how transitional justice initiatives enhance a shared commitment to human rights.

Interested in learning about Anthropology’s One-Year MA and Undergraduate Honors Programs? Come to the information session hosted by Drs. Jenny Kahn and Jonathan Glasser.

David Brashear examines the importance of the 1922 Chicago Tribune contest to build "the world's most beautiful office building."

Join the Writing Resources Center for a workshop designed to help you turn your ideas into a compelling academic essay. In the “Writing Academic Essays” workshop, you'll learn about developing a thesis, structuring an argument, and using evidence.   

Join discussion on Asian Americans and the 2020 Presidential Election with Janelle Wong .

Join the International Law Society, the Comparative Legal Student Scholars, and the American Constitution Society for a fireside chat with professor Jenik Radon of Columbia University, moderated by professor Iria Giuffrida. 

The Election Law Society will host Commissioner Donald Palmer of the Federal Election Commission at 1PM, October 23, on Zoom.

Alexis Ohman, Anthropology, will present her Ph.D. Defense, "Rations and Recreation: Comparative Zooarchaeological Analysis of Betty's Hope Plantation and Shirley Heights Fort in Antigua, West Indies"

The Federalist Society is excited to welcome Professor Josh Blackman from South Texas College of Law and William & Mary’s own Professor Neal Devins for a conversation on Chief Justice John Roberts & Stare Decisis.

On October 27th, in line with the news of allegations of hysterectomies and other unwanted medical surgeries at ICE facilities -- Health Law & Policy Society, Women's Law Society and Immigration Law & Service Law Society will be co-sponsoring a Q&A panel.

Join The Lemon Project as we discuss Ta-Nehisi Coates’ June 2014 article “The Case for Reparations.” 

Chris Rodning of Tulane University will give a talk on Joara, Cuenca, and Fort San Juan: Indigenous Peoples and Iberian Colonists in the Western North Carolina Piedmont, 1540-1600. 

The Election Law Society will host Professor Ned Foley of the Ohio State University Moritz College of Law at 1PM, October 28, on Zoom, as part of their Voting in 2020 Lunch Series.

Zhaoliang Duan, Computer Science - Defense [Zoom]
Title: Single Image Direct-Global Illumination Separation
Ph.D. Candidate: Zhaoliang Duan

Location: Zoom Online Meeting https://cwm.zoom.us/j/92649487852

Hear from Professor Braddock as he draws on historical and current examples to describe an “ecology” of art interlaced with the people and environments surrounding us.

Virtual talk : “The Impact of COVID-19 on College Students Studying Abroad” by Eric Pedersen, Ph.D.

W&M and UVA are hosting a coordinated virtual event on October 29 at 11 AM.

The W&M Confucius Institute and Law School are honored to host Frank R. Samolis through Zoom for a virtual lecture on U.S. and China trade relations as of 2020.

Lecture hosted by the Center for the Study of Law and Markets.  William &  Mary faculty, staff and students welcome.

Join the W&M community for an evening discussion regarding the future of U.S. diplomacy with Ambassadors Mari C. Aponte, Barbara A. Leaf '80 and Tom A. Shannon '80, D.P.S. '20.

Join Colette Loll, the Founder and Director of Art Fraud Insights, as she details the stories behind her groundbreaking exhibition.

Tunas and billfishes support commercial and recreational fisheries around the world. Join Bruce Collette, John Graves, and Val Kells for highlights of these incredible fish and their five-year journey to create the book Tunas and Billfishes of the World.

Dr. Adriana Martinez from Southern Illinois Univ. is presenting: The Hydrological Impacts of the U.S.-Mexico Border Fence Along the Rio Grande!

Click on the event title & go to the Contact Information to email Nick Balascio for the zoom link to attend.

 Du Shen, Computer Science - Dissertation Defense [Zoom]
Title: Exploring Heterogeneous Architectures with Tools and Applications
Advisor: Dr. Xu Liu

Please join the Data Privacy & Cybersecurity Legal Society as it welcomes back (virtually) alumna Maeve Olney for a conversation about her practice in data privacy and cybersecurity at Hunton Andrews Kurth. Use this link to attend the event at 1 PM!

The Election Law Society will host an Election Debriefing at 1PM, November 4, on Zoom, as the final event of the Voting in 2020 Lunch Series.

Richard Freund will speak on "Holocaust Escape Tunnels" in a virtual lecture on ZOOM. WEDNESDAY, 4 NOVEMBER 2020 @7:00 PM
ZOOM LINK: HTTPS://CWM.ZOOM.US/J/96732686071

Diskussion zum Film In den Gängen (Regie Thomas Stuber, 2018) https://cwm.zoom.us/j/95488510488

Denise Erin McKaig, Physics - Final Oral Dissertation Defense
Zoom link: is available upon request. Please email [[w|evwilk,Ellie]]
Title: Quantitative Analysis of Blood Pressure Waveforms of ICU Patients that Have Experienced a Hemorrhage Event

Join us for a special discussion with Elizabeth Mead who curated the exhibition Looking out, at, in and back again.

Four steps are required at least two weeks before you defend. November 6th is the last day by which you may meet this requirement if you intend to graduate in January 2021.

Honorlock will host a Q&A session this Friday as a follow up to their earlier tutorial session. 

In this seminar Dennis Hallema will discuss how to properly train a classifier for the purpose of predicting potential fire control locations, and show what a prediction map looks like.

A talk with Professor Tara Grove about textualism, the Supreme Court's decision in Bostock v. Clayton, and the future of LGBTQ+ rights.

Hear from Professor Patricia Vahle as she discusses the NOvA particle physics experiment and her investigation of the absence of an expected asymmetry of the Universe.

The William & Mary Tax Conference offers lawyers and accountants an in-depth look at current topics in tax law. Please plan to join us for our 66th conference.

Join us as we invite students to share their experiences learning at W&M throughout this semester. 

The WRC will be open for online consultations during the first week of finals for half-hour sessions. Make an appointment online--the schedule opens Saturday, November 14.

Apply to work on one of the Spring 2021 sustainability projects/research for 1-3 ENSP credits!

Join Pamela Eddy and Jim Barber, professors in the Higher Education Program, for a conversation about their recent books, with a focus on leadership and student support during the pandemic.

The Center for the Study of Law and Markets at William & Mary Law School will host Professor Jamel K. Donnor for a lecture titled "Racial Capitalism and College Sports."

Join us as Professor Fabrizio provides a first-hand account of the Nepal expedition — from extreme heat to wild rhinoceros encounters — and what they hope to discover with the information they gathered.

The Virginia Coastal Policy Center will host its last webinar of the fall semester on November 18 on the topic, "Liability in the Face of a Changing Climate."

Hear from a panel of K-12 and university educators how they have navigated challenges of pivoting to remote instruction during the pandemic and discovered opportunities for effective online learning.

Hear from Professor Fabricio Prado as he explores how early trade networks to South America jump-started the U.S. national economy.

The Charles Center and the Institute for Integrative Conservation are pleased to offer an integrative conservation research program for W&M undergraduate students in 2021. Applications are due on December 4, 2020.

Zhaoliang Duan, Computer Science - Dissertation Defense
Title: Single Image Direct-Global Illumination Separation
Advisor: Dr. Pieter Peers

Your defense must be scheduled and completed by this deadline.

Join art historian Elaine Ruffolo for an unhindered gaze into court life in Mantua.

Final submission deadline for A&S graduate students to satisfy degree requirements for graduation in January 2021.

Associate Professor Natoya Haskins will present her research on the lived experiences of African American women in Counselor Education and ways that counselor education and the counseling profession can address their unique professional needs. 

Join us as we support and learn from three female scientists who are graduate students at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science.

Join our Director David Brashear and Dean of University Libraries Carrie Lynn Cooper for a virtual Muscarelle Explorations Book Club!

To help students working on applications (to graduate school, internships, scholarships, etc. ), the WRC will offer winter break bonus hours December 6, 7, and 8 from 7pm to 9pm. Make an appointment online--the schedule opens Saturday, November 14.

Ruiqin Tian, Computer Science - Dissertation Proposal [Zoom]
Title: Performance Optimization with an Integrated View of Compiler and Application Knowledge
Advisor: Dr. Bin Ren
Location: Zoom Online Meeting
Dissertation
 

Join us for a special lecture with Thiago Piwowarczyk the founder and owner of New York Art Forensics Art.

Title: Provable Algorithms for High Dimensional Machine Learning Problems

Advisor: Zhenming Liu

Location: Zoom Meeting

Mohamed Ibrahim, Computer Science - PhD Dissertation Defense
 

A virtual book launch featuring 13 chapters that look ahead to how NATO can best address the cyber threats, as well as opportunities and challenges from emerging and disruptive technologies in the cyber domain over the next decade.

The ReVISION Bootcamp is an annual event for all online instructors to revise their summer courses.

To prepare competitors for Moot Court's tryout tournament, we will present tips & tricks on oral argument and answer questions about the virtual nature of this year's competition. To receive a link, RSVP here: https://forms.gle/K9CVMrMoD1pSWdmy9.

Join us for a special STLI workshop focused on the multimedia phenomenon known as vlogging and how you can use it in your online courses. The workshop will be facilitated by Jeremy Higham of Higham & Company.

To prepare competitors for Moot Court's tryout tournament, we will present tips & tricks on oral argument and answer questions about the virtual nature of this year's competition. To receive a link, RVSP here: https://forms.gle/jjEjqtv8i3Q5oLc1A.

Trying out for Moot Court? Attend a substantive Q&A on this year's Bushrod problem with the problem writer! Submit questions here: and RSVP to receive a link here: https://forms.gle/ZwTA6NAtPPTYi3j38. 

2021 has already brought us an insurrection at the Capitol and the second Impeachment of Donald Trump. 

Consider the BA/MPP program and get your Master of Public Policy by adding just 1 year to your W&M bachelor’s degree! Graduates gain marketable analysis skills & work in nonprofits, government, private sector, and more. Open to ALL undergraduate majors.

Frozen Obsession follows the Northwest Passage Project team, including Dr. Donglai Gong from VIMS, on their 18-day, 2,000-mile expedition aboard the icebreaker R/V Oden in the Arctic in search of clues to understanding the effects of climate change.

Scientists Lisa Kellogg and Eric Hilton discuss the development of the RecFish app, winner of VIMS Innovation Fund awards in 2018 and 2019. RecFish will aid in fisheries management by providing fish population data gathered by anglers.

The Student Intellectual Property Society (SIPS) will host Brian Focarino for a virtual lunchtime talk about his trademark, copyright and advertising work at a leading IP law firm.

Join us as we continue to share tips and tricks to engage students online. 

W&M Sustainability Earth Week Committee

This session is open to all interested students, especially graduating seniors and graduate students interested in earning a master's degree in public policy at W&M. 

Please join us at noon on Zoom https://cwm.zoom.us/j/98191204527?pwd=d1BWWEhZN0tsWnlqZHdMMFNWK2ZBQT09

pass code 1693

Join The Federalist Society for a conversation on the Current State of Stare Decisis with Jennifer Caughey of Jackson Walker. 

Join the Human Security Law Center in welcoming Arthur Traldi, International Criminal Prosecutor, who will be speaking about potential changes in U.S. atrocity crime policy under the Biden administration. Zoom: https://cwm.zoom.us/j/96732910046

Daniel Griffin, MD, PhD, Ctrop of Columbia University presents

"COVID-19: Phases, Timing of Therapeutics, Focus on Immunization"

Join Meghan Sinton Miller, professor and STLI Fellow, as she discusses ways to make classes flexible and supportive without having to change course content. Meghan will also review ways to connect students to different support systems on-campus.

Prof. Twomney (Saint Lawrence U.) will speak on "Othering Blackness: Ideas of Racial Difference in Medieval & Early Modern Europe'

Monday, February 8, 2:00-3:20 pm

This session is open to all interested students, especially graduating seniors and graduate students interested in earning a master's degree in public policy at W&M. 

The Center for the Study of Law and Markets will host a lecture by Professor Bruce Caldwell.  He is Research Professor of Economics and Director, Center for the History of Political Economy, at Duke University.

Welcome back everyone! Join us on 2/10 at 4PM  for the first virtual seminar of 2021 presented by PhD student Teri Oehmke from UC Berkeley with a seminar on fluid mechanics (full title next page) | Click the event title to contact Brent Owens to attend!

Decolonization is not a Metaphor

Faculty Discussion, Zoom.  

The W&M Law Moot Court team invites you to watch the live-streamed event of the Competition's final two teams argue a first and second amendment issue. 

Believe it or not, poop plays an important role in the ocean! Without oceanic poop, there would be up to 50% more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere! VIMS graduate student Kristen Sharpe will discuss her research on zooplankton poop.

On February 16th at 7pm Department of Defense recruiter, James Dillon, will lead a workshop on how to improve your chances of obtaining one of the DoD’s dozens of internships, fellowships, and permanent positions. Read more and REGISTER here

A conversation with philosopher and essayist Susan Neiman on her book Learning from the Germans: Race and the Memory of Evil, published in 2019, which asks what Americans can learn from Germans about confronting the evils of the past. 

An overview of the new special exhibition at the Jamestown Settlement Museum by Luke J. Pecoraro, Ph.D., Director of Curatorial Services at the Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation. Please contact Joni Carlson [[w|jdcarlson]] for Zoom link. 

How are pandemics like COVID linked to conservation, equity, and governance?

What has changed in the last four years in the U.S., in Germany, and in their relationship with each other? How do we account for the rise of right-wing political groups in both Germany and the U.S. 

Slice of Data Science is a fun way for students to obtain quick, direct insight into some of the latest applications in data science, machine learning, artificial intelligence, computer vision, natural language processing, and more.

STLI is pleased to announce the Teaching & Learning Talks series for Spring 2021. This three-part series will focus on student engagement.

Assistant Professor Heartley Huber will discuss the significant impact peer partners can have on the social development, inclusion, and acceptance of students with disabilities in schools. 

Decolonization is not a Metaphor: Faculty Discussion with Modern Language and Literature Dept. 

We will discuss Eve Tuck and K. Wayne Yang. “Decolonisation is Not a Metaphor" and Patrick Wolfe, “Settler Colonialism and the Elimination of the Native."

Discovering your family roots is a journey. This program, in collaboration with The Let Freedom Ring Foundation, will focus on resources ranging from oral histories to vital records & historic newspapers used to research African American family history.

To kick off the Asian Centennial at W&M commemorating the admission of Chen Pu-Kao, the first Chinese, Asian, and student of color so far on record, the Asian, Pacific, and Middle Eastern Film Series presents Larissa Lam's film "Far East Deep South."

Join Tribe Innovation and STLI on February 19 at 1 pm via Zoom to explore how we can carry forward the teaching and learning adaptations from COVID-19 to enhance the W&M educational experience in the post-pandemic world. 

Life cycle of SARS-CoV-2 viewed through the lens of proximity proteomics

A reading group for those who don't have time to read!

Professor Sonn is Hamad Bin Khalifa Al-Thani Professor in the History of Islam and Director of the Alwaleed Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University. RSVP for Zoom information.

Professor Guy-Uriel Charles will present the 2021 Cutler Lecture. He is currently the Edward and Ellen Schwarzman Professor of Law at Duke Law School.  Admission is free and all are welcome.

The Russian and Post - Soviet Studies Program invites you to the Tepper Speaker Series: Global Russia.

Join Mike Blum, Roy Petersen, and Troy Davis as they discuss and demonstrate the basics of producing your own professional-looking videos for engaging your students and developing instructor presence. 

The William & Mary Journal of Race, Gender, and Social Justice presents its annual symposium -- Justice Along Borders: Social Justice and Its Intersection Between Law, Immigration, and Human Rights. 

Speaker: Dr. Kevin Leach, Postdoctoral Research Scientist and Lecturer at the University of Michigan.

Prof. Geraldine Heng (U. Texas) will give the 2021 Fauvel Lecture on "Teaching Early Global Literatures: Worlding the World, Traveling the World."

Zoom link: https://cwm.zoom.us/s/6281668144

Meeting ID: 628 166 8144

The Black Law Students Association will host its annual (and first-ever virtual) symposium on February 26.  RSVP for Zoom details.

Join Dr. Eric Hilton, curator of the VIMS Nunnally Ichthyology Collection, as he tells the story of the Coelacanth- from its fossil record to its unlikely discovery and why it may be more closely related to four-legged land animals than other fishes.

We need your help! Your feedback could offer constructive suggestions that will be used to improve the Climate Action Plan.

Speaker: Huajie Shao, UIUC

Monday, 3/1/2021, Noon 12:00 PM

The Student Intellectual Property Society (SIPS) will host Tanya Fickenscher Leonard for a virtual lunchtime talk about her IP work at Major League Baseball.

Use assignments like "Pink Time" and "unessays" to encourage students to take charge of their learning and to focus less on grades.

Ambassador Dennis Ross is presented by W&M Hillel, the W&M Reves Center for International Studies, the W&M Global Research Institute, and the W&M Department of Government.

Spring 2021 Session A classes end for the Online MBA, Online MSBA, Online MS in Marketing, and Online Certificate in Foundations of Business Analytics.

 Ilit Ferber, who teaches Philosophy at the University of Tel Aviv will be giving a talk on her new research Wednesday, March 3 at 11am on ZOOM.

Speaker: Ziyu Yao, Ohio State University 

This session will focus on questions of diversity and inclusion in the foreign language classroom with an emphasis on issues of representation, accessibility, and engagement.

Faculty will learn about trauma-informed teaching practices that include suggestions on how to draft a syllabus, provide advance notice to students regarding the subject to be discussed, and for facilitating class discussion.

A talk with Shannon Minter from the National Center for Lesbian Rights about LGBTQ+ rights and his work. 

Join Mike Blum, Roy Petersen, and Troy Davis as they discuss and demonstrate the basics of producing your own professional-looking videos for engaging your students and developing instructor presence. 

Join distinguished scholars from all over the world as they discuss and debate the principles that form the building blocks of our technical age. Go to https://borjsymposium.wixsite.com/2021 for more information!

Speaker: Yu Huang, PhD candidate in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Michigan

Join Peiyu Yang as she introduces several strategies for guiding students through a digital story map assignment, with an emphasis on classes in the humanities.

Join Italian Studies at W&M for a lunchtime conversation with acclaimed Italian columnist and writer Beppe Severgnini.

The William & Mary Graduate Symposium on Racial and Social Justice will give graduate students the opportunity to present their research, on any topic related to racial and/or social justice, to a supportive community of student scholars and faculty. 

Speaker: Dr. Nate Veldt, Postdoctoral associate in the Center for Applied Mathematics at Cornell University

Learn more about SMARTRIQS, a free and open source platform that allows users to create online experiments using Qualtrics. SMARTRIQS creator, Dr. Andras Molnar, will present. The Social Science Research Methods Center will host this event. 

A reading group for those who don't have time to read!

Join Anne Rasmussen as she explores university-supported technologies used to practice editing, uploading, presenting, organizing, and storing audiovisual materials from her own ethnographic research. 

Join us for 15 minutes to share instructional strategies and questions related to teaching. 

Eurocentrism, Knowledge Making and Decolonial Dialogue

Linda Martín Alcoff (Hunter, CUNY) and Carlos Rivera Santana (Hispanic Studies, W&M)

Thursday March 11 3:30-5pm:

Open to Public 

Join Mike Blum, Roy Petersen, and Troy Davis as they discuss and demonstrate the basics of producing your own professional-looking videos for engaging your students and developing instructor presence. 

Speaker: Dr. Andrew Perrault, Postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Research in Computation and Society at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Science

GRI's Blockchain Lab presents a discussion on privacy and policy, featuring Elena Giralt of Blockchain Latinx. 

Join us on 3/12 at 12:05PM for a zoom seminar by Denison geoscience professor Dr. Anjali Fernandes titled "Backwater Controls on the Kinematics and Sedimentary Records of Large Rivers and Deltas" | Click the event title to contact Brent Owens to attend!

AMES Colloquium Series presents: Seeing the Forest from the Trees: Multi-proxy analysis of pastoralist-landscape relationships in southern Arabia during the Holocene

A lecture presented by Professor Tamara Sonn, the 2021 Virtual Kraemer Middle East Distinguished Scholar-In-Residence.  Presented in celebration of the Asian Centennial at William & Mary.

Spring 2021 Session B add/drop period ends at 11:59 pm for the Online MBA, Online MSBA, Online MS in Marketing, and Online Certificate in Foundations of Business Analytics.

Speaker: Dr. Camille Cobb, CMU

The William & Mary Graduate Symposium on Racial and Social Justice will give graduate students the opportunity to present their research, on any topic related to racial and/or social justice, to a supportive community of student scholars and faculty. 

Join The Center for Racial & Social Justice and Women's Law Society at W&M Law for a discussion about  menstrual Justice with Professor Margaret  Johnson.

Come meet W&M STEM professors from biology, chemistry, neuroscience, and mathematics! Come learn how to be successful in their classes as a pre-med student! Meeting ID: 988 9360 4944

Dr. Carnegie, a research professor at VIMS, will share about his research focusing on host-parasite interactions in oysters, aquaculture health, and shellfish restoration in the Chesapeake Bay.  

Speaker: Dr. Benjamin Fish, Postdoctoral fellow at Mila

STLI is pleased to announce the Teaching & Learning Talks series for Spring 2021. This three-part series will focus on student engagement.

Esteemed novelist and filmmaker Alia Yunis (The Night Counter) is the premiering author of Asian American Plural: Literature Across Borders, organized by Dr. R. Benedito Ferrao as part of his course OUTSIDE IN: TRANSNATIONAL ASIAN AMERICAN LITERATURE.

How is the art of Indigenous peoples linked to climate change, culture, and empowerment? How can art influence your area of expertise?

Rob Boston, Senior Advisor at Americans United for Separation of Church and State, will present on how he anticipates the  Biden administration will approach religious liberty and secularism.

Anthropology professor Grey Gundaker will give the 2021 Tisch Lecture at Columbia Teachers College. 

In this collaborative learning lab, participants will learn the basics of all aspects of Google Suite and how to best use its features to collaborate with students and colleagues.

Speaker: Najoung Kim, Department of Cognitive Science at Johns Hopkins University

Summer registration begins for degree seeking students

Speaker: Hongyuan Mei, Department of Computer Science at the Johns Hopkins University (JHU)

Join the Art and Cultural Heritage Law Society (ACHLS) for a presentation on the intersection between the Law and Museums with Ms. Caprice Bragg of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. https://cwm.zoom.us/j/93354351287?pwd=Q2pHdXVEVlVOY2JpQlBPd2dzdGxldz09 

This talk presented by Megan Victor of Queen's College is an overview of the recovery excavation season at the Standford Arboretum Chinese Labor Quarters and discusses findings of an analysis ceramic assemblages. Email jdcarlson@wm.edu for Zoom link. 

Speaker: Dr. Dan Williams, Research Staff Member at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Lab

A reading group for those who don't have time to read!

Join Zoom Meeting

https://cwm.zoom.us/j/91462522532

Meeting ID: 914 6252 2532

Join us as we gather the expert's take on the COVID-19 vaccine regarding safety and efficacy, challenges gaining minority populations' trust, varying types of vaccines, and considerations we should be making as business leaders for the new normal.

The first session of the Financial Literacy Program will encompass Budgeting, Saving, Credit/Credit Cards, Investing.

School of Education Dean Robert C. Knoeppel will discuss changes that need to be made to state funding models for public education to equally and adequately meet the demands of educating all children to mandated levels of proficiency.