Spring 2012 is just the fourth year of our Web-based effort to raise funds to support student research projects. This method of reaching out to our alumni and friends is new to William and Mary and, as far as we know, almost unique in U.S. higher education. It allows us to showcase the spectacular work our students are doing and give our friends an opportunity to support individual projects that catch their eye. As a result, we were able to fully fund 27 honors theses. This is an increase from 22 in 2011 and 12 in 2010! 2012 was a great year; 2013, we believe, will be even more successful.
2012 Fellows
War on the Ground: A Study on the Reliability of Firsthand Testimony on the American Civil War
Tourism in Oman: Constructing an Identity
Is Exportin 5 Involved in the Nuclear Export of the Thyroid Hormone Receptor?
Exercise, Aging, and Cardiovascular Health: A Look at Sirtuin Gene Expression in Rat Tissues
Design and Synthesis of Novel Hydrogen-Rich Polyimides for Radiation Shielding
Infrared and Optical Properties of Chromium across the Spin Density Wave Phase Transition
Preventing Disordered Eating: Children’s Approach or Avoidance of Foods
School Feeding Programs and Community Engagement in Cape Town
Latin Love Elegy and Contemporary Literary Theory
Little Ambassadors: Fashion Dolls and the Dissemination of Fashion in England
Exploring the Influence of Weathering on Bedrock Channel Profile Evolution
Pesticides in the Pantanal: A Qualitative and Quantitative Water Pollution Analysis
“For A Woman”: Pensions for Women Nurses, Soldiers, and Spies After the Civil War
How Neural Cells Acquire an Identity: Role of Calcium Signaling and Voltage-Gated Calcium Channels in Neurotransmitter Phenotype Specification
Beyond the Base: The Transition from Military Life in the Wake of Tragedy
Social Snapping Shrimp: Exploring the Evolution of Eusociality in Caribbean Marine Shrimp
A Qualitative Examination of Parental Socialization Behaviors and their relation to Children’s Management of Sadness
Exhibiting Slavery: How Plantation Museums in Virginia Represent Slavery
Divisions Dissolved, Conversations and Convergences Revealed: Amrita Sher-Gil and Global Modernism
Ecological Impact of Coal Trains on Mercury Bioaccumulation in Local Wetlands
A Separated Sudan Redefining Sudanese Immigrant Transnational Identity
Deference or Defiance: State Court Treatment of Blaine Amendments
A Mathematical Model of Renal Cell Carcinoma
The effect of maternal investment on cloning frequency in the sea star Asterias forbesi.
Utilizing GIS to Study Concentrated Flow from Agricultural Fields in the Virginia Chesapeake Bay Watershed
Development of a Sanctuary Oyster Reef Network in the Great Wicomico River, Virginia
Wallace Stevens and the Constructive Imaginative Belief