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Alumni in the News
The following are links to other news sites that have articles about graduates of the College of William and Mary. This list is by no means completely exhaustive -- meaning that there might be headlines that we miss -- but not too many. Got an alumni news tip? Send it to alumni.web@wm.edu.
Scott Nelson’s forthcoming book looks at strangely familiar financial landscapes. Junk bonds and unbacked, ineptly bundled mortgages trigger financial crises that prompt competing economic stimulus proposals in Washington, D.C. Proposed government regulations prove to be controversial. Debate on how to react paralyzes Congress.
It sounds like a recap of the 2008 meltdown, but these events happened more than a century ago; many happened more than once. Crash: An Uncommon History of America’s Financial Disasters takes a look at the seven American financial panics from 1792 to 1929 from the context of the 2008 crash, which Nelson says should be referred to as the Panic of 2008, even though “Great Recession” is a more popular term.
Hundreds of parents, grandparents, siblings and other relatives of William & Mary students will converge on campus beginning Sept. 23 for the College’s annual Family Weekend.
Five College of William & Mary professors addressed the state of the economy Wednesday night in a public forum at the Mason School of Business.
McGehee '74, one of Hampton Roads' favorite musicians, will perform at the Newport News Wine Festival on Saturday, October 8.
The No. 4/5 William and Mary football team extended its regular-season home winning streak to 11 games with a 13-10 victory against New Haven in its home opener on a rainy evening at Zable Stadium Saturday.
Karen Coltrane takes child's play seriously.
"Play is how people learn," said Coltrane, president and CEO of the Children's Museum of Richmond.
Linebackers at William and Mary are supposed to make tackles, so Jabrel Mines figures that he's simply doing his job.
The College of William and Mary has been designated a Military Friendly School by G.I. Jobs, according to an announcement made by the magazine today.
he No. 5 William and Mary football team extended its winning streak against VMI to 25 games with a 24-7 victory on Saturday afternoon at Foster Stadium.
An exhibition tracing the enduring artistic tradition of the American Indian artists known as the Kiowa Five, opens Saturday, Sept. 10, at the Muscarelle Museum of Art at the College of William & Mary.
The Center for Conservation Biology at the College of William & Mary and Virginia Commonwealth University has compiled 2011 survey results for the Virginia bald eagle population.
Mysterious gray blobs washing up on eastern U.S. beaches in the wake of Hurricane Irene are alive, a researcher says -- they are in fact sponges.
William and Mary and VMI get together Saturday for the 88th time, in a series that dates back to 1905. It's the Tribe's second-oldest rivalry, behind only Richmond.
The William and Mary women's tennis team will host the 19th annual Tribe Invitational this weekend, Sept. 9-11.
Wlliam & Mary’s writer in residence for 2011-12, poet Joshua Poteat, considers his position at the College to be a “gift.”
An international team including professor Deborah Steinberg of the Virginia Institute of Marine Science has returned to the waters off the northeastern coast of South America, studying how the Amazon River's huge freshwater plume affects the biology and chemistry of the Atlantic Ocean.
Had Alex Gottlieb not adapted after he went from starter to spectator during his junior year of high school, William and Mary wouldn't have one of the nation's best tight ends, and it's likely that he wouldn't have professional football opportunities.
Peter Mayberry, Mayberry & Associates, LLC, will discuss recent developments regarding the FDA's medical device approval process that could have far reaching impact on nonwovens devices.
William & Mary Government professor George Grayson recently briefed Ambassador E. Antony Wayne, the appointed U.S. envoy to Mexico.
William & Mary Law School Professor Allison Orr Larsen’s law review article “Perpetual Dissents” was recently highlighted in The New York Times.
President Barack Obama issued the following statement on Gates' appointment: "In Bob, one of our nation’s oldest colleges has found one of our nation’s finest public servants.
The truth was that for the longest time -- from an elaborate collection of stuffed monkeys and hours spent at the zoo as a child to a rekindling of passion her junior year at William & Mary that was triggered by a biological anthropology class with Professor Barbara King -- that was Drew’s ambition.
The Rock 'n' Roll Virginia Beach Half Marathon is quickly becoming one of Andrew Budiansky's favorite races
William and Mary's Jesse Ebner (Sinking Spring, Pa.) was named Rookie of the Week by the Colonial Athletic Association Tuesday, after her outstanding play over the weekend helped the Tribe field hockey team to a 2-0 record to start the year.
The No. 3/4 William and Mary football team opened its season with a 40-3 loss at Virginia on Saturday evening.
Vice President of Student Affairs Ginger Amber '88, Ph.D. '06 gives remarks at the 2011 Convocation.
Former U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates has been named the next Chancellor of the College of William & Mary.
Over the past few decades it has become increasingly clear that the ability of the U.S. economy to compete with the rest of the world to produce manufactured goods has declined considerably. The prosperity enjoyed by our citizens in this age is largely driven by new industries that result from what this country still does best: technical innovation.
The William and Mary volleyball team is back in action this weekend, heading to New Orleans for the Allstate Sugar Bowl Collegiate Classic.
Research shows that bad behavior doesn’t pay. While “opportunistic behavior” — unethical behavior — may be legal, the damage it can cause to your reputation can cost you.
This coming weekend at the second-annual I-95 Kick Off Classic, one of the most storied football programs in the country will trot out a new football head coach for the first time in three decades — Elijah Brooks.
Elizabeth McClanahan of Abingdon has been formally sworn in as Virginia Supreme Court justice.
Jeanne Weaver, Todd's mother, will exhibit a series of her paintings that honor her son.
According to William and Mary tradition, the campus community gathers at the beginning of each academic year at Opening Convocation to formally celebrate the start of the academic session and, most especially, to welcome our newest students to the College.
Sleep often suffers in a student’s freshman year, but a new study finds that young college students may think their sleep quality is better than it is.
Out of the 20 applicants expressing interest in the position, Macy Cullison was chosen as the top candidate.
Returning to the sport of one's youth can be rewarding; getting to do it for an important cause is even more so.
The No. 3/4 William and Mary football team will open the 2011 season at Virginia this Saturday at 6 p.m.
WILLIAMSBURG, Va. - After one of the more impressive wins in program history last week, the William and Mary Tribe men's soccer team rose in the national polls this week. In the NSCAA Coaches Poll, the Tribe moved up five spots to No. 8 in the country.
WILLIAMSBURG—Scientists are tracking a migrating shorebird that appears to have survived flying through the most dangerous segment of Hurricane Irene.
Hurricane Irene updates available from the College's Emergency Management Team.
Presumptive starting quarterback Mike Paulus is coming back from shoulder surgery that all but shelved him last spring and through much of the summer.
It became a three-way race for District 3 Supervisor in Richmond County this week after Warsaw native William Clements threw his hat into the political ring.
Bill Fox understands teachers' frustrations as they work under scads of federal and state mandates, leaving little room for creativity in the classroom.
Jason Eisner, an attorney working for the Virginia Indigent Defense Commission in the Danville Public Defenders office, has formally announced his candidacy in the November election for the position of Circuit Court Clerk.
New Village Arts is thrilled to introduce one of the most exciting new American Playwrights to San Diego audiences.
Heath Hall and Brett Thompson co-founded and captain the Washington-based team Pork Barrel BBQ.
A new institute devoted to promoting Chinese language and culture will enable the College of William and Mary to expand its global reach and strengthen its focus on internationalization in the 21st century.
Chuck Bailey, a geology professor at William & Mary, felt the quake during a faculty meeting the other seven geologists on campus. They knew instantly knew it wasn’t a small earthquake.
Tribe head coach Meredith Geiger-Walton announced the addition of James Wilson to the 21-time CAA Champion William and Mary women's tennis program as an assistant coach.
A new institute devoted to promoting Chinese language and culture will enable the College of William and Mary to expand its global reach and strengthen its focus on internationalization in the 21st century.
The William and Mary cross country and track and field teams announced a staff reorganization today, as long-time Director Dan Stimson is stepping down to focus exclusively on coaching the Tribe's throwers.
Lisa Landino studies the chemistry behind what she calls “the big three” neurodegenerative diseases: Parkinson’s, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and Alzheimer’s.
Peggy Brown was taking a break by a pile of her daughter’s belongings outside of Barrett Hall when two William & Mary students in green shirts approached, their arms full of boxes and clothing.
U.S. District Judge Rebecca Beach Smith will welcome students to the College of William and Mary at its Opening Convocation ceremony on Aug. 26.
William & Mary’s Greek community is receiving national recognition for its work with the Arc of Greater Williamsburg, which provides support to people with developmental and intellectual disabilities.
Hiroshi Kitamura, an associate professor of history at the College of William & Mary, explores Hollywood's influence on Japan during the American occupation in the 1940s.
At the June 14 Board of Supervisors meeting, the James City County Economic Development Authority appointed Tim Harris. Vice President of Tienda, Inc and graduate of William & Mary, Harris is also involved with the Rural Economic Development Committee.
The inaugural 2011-2012 edition of The Best Colleges Top 50 Colleges and Universities in America ranks William & Mary at #5 overall and #8 for prettiest campus.
After finishing the 2010 campaign ranked No. 9 in the country, the William and Mary Tribe men's soccer team enters the 2011 season ranked No. 13 in the country in the NSCAA Preseason Coaches poll released on Tuesday.
Former William and Mary lacrosse standout Jaime Sellers ('08) has been hired as the head women's lacrosse coach at Coastal Carolina.
Anamarija Frankic is on something of a crusade to turn the urban coastline and watersheds in and around Boston into a beacon of environmental health.
Rhett Weiss has joined the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management as the new executive director of the Entrepreneurship and Innovation Institute (EII).
David H. Stevens, President and CEO of the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA), today announced the appointment of Brian Hartman as Associate Vice President of Marketing.
He couldn't throw a football, work out or even swing a golf club, which made him a mite testy. Still, Mike Paulus did his best to take the glass-is-half-full approach to injury and extended inactivity.
Check out these videos of Tribe Football Media Day
William and Mary Tribe women's soccer head coach John Daly announced on Friday that former Tribe standout Kellie Jenkins, a 2010 graduate of the College, will join W&M's coaching staff as a volunteer assistant coach for the 2011 season.
“Take Me Home Country Roads” – it’s the anthem song for the College of William and Mary bicyclists who returned from their 4,000-mile, three-month bike trip across the country this weekend.
When camp began about 10 days ago, Sean Lissemore was a first-team defensive end. Then the Cowboys signed Marcus Spears, Kenyon Coleman and Jason Hatcher and it bumped Lissemore down to the third-team defense.
The rankings season has officially begun and William & Mary continues to be recognized as one of the nation’s top universities.
As of today, the Information Security Oversight Office has a new director in the person of John P. Fitzpatrick, a former top security official at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.
Read about the childhood memories of World War II-era alumni on the my1693 History community.
In everything he did, Jim Livingston stood out.
His former colleagues in William & Mary’s Department of Religious Studies heaped praise on him for having come to the College in 1968 to found the department and selflessly guide it to prominence.
Former William and Mary lacrosse All-American Grace Golden has been selected to the 2011-12 U.S. Women's National Senior Team.
The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) swore in R. Douglass "Doug" Arbuckle as the new mission director to Malawi.
A new sort of competition will put more than just the final score at stake for two local universities' athletic programs.
Cleo Powell and Elizabeth McClanahan will join Chief Justice Cynthia Kinser. They will serve 12-year terms beginning Aug. 1 and will fill vacancies created in February when former Chief Justice Leroy Hassell Sr. died and Justice Lawrence Koontz Jr. retired.
While he was in bed one night about three years ago, a business idea socked Rich Prado in the head.
Mike Petters joined Newport News Shipbuilding in 1987 as a planner, a job that required the U.S. Naval Academy graduate to race about the 550-acre shipyard.
The Williamsburg Economic Development Authority will continue to be guided by Monty Mason, who was reelected as chairman last week.
The Williamsburg Economic Development Authority re-elected Monty Mason as Chairman and elected Tom Gillman as Vice Chairman at its July 20 meeting.
Robert Livingston, a former Hendersonville High standout who played free safety at William & Mary from 2007-09, was hired recently at Vanderbilt as the defensive quality control coach.
Smarter Security Systems, provider of premium, innovative entrance control and outdoor security solutions, today announced that J.A. “Jack” Leach has recently joined the company in the position of Director of Operations.
William and Mary, which earned a share of the CAA Football crown a year ago, is favored to win the CAA Football Championship in 2011 according to a vote of the league's 11 head coaches and media relations personnel.
The William & Mary Real Estate Foundation announced today that three businesses – The Crust, Pita Pit and Subway Café – have signed leases to open this fall in Tribe Square.
STORRS, Conn. - University of Connecticut women's lacrosse head coach Katie Woods announced the hiring of Anne Harrington and Chelsea Gamble as assistant coaches for the upcoming 2011-12 season.
ou are cordially invited to a special coming-out party — the release of Norfolk Botanical Garden's three motherless eaglets, now grown and ready to head back into the wild.
The Hon. Alfred W. Bates III took his place on the Suffolk General District Court bench Friday in front of a packed courtroom in the Mills E. Godwin Jr. Courts Building.
The preseason honors continue to roll in for members of the William and Mary football team, as senior running back Jonathan Grimes, senior tight end Alex Gottlieb and junior linebacker Dante Cook have been selected to The Sports Network/Fathead.com FCS preseason All-America teams.
As the first full-time art professor at the Citadel, Tiffany is charged with introducing cadets to creative culture, which happily results in their recognition of art everywhere—on vacation at the Prado, galleries in DC, serving in Afghanistan, and even watching ol’ Alex Trebek.
Recently, the Emmy Award winner based in New York City, Jon Stewart, played soccer with the U.S. Women's National Team.
The only obstacles Drew Daniele will face in Saturday's Ocean City Masters Swim will be the aches, pains and missing gears of middle age, but the 46-year-old former Ocean City Beach Patrol member will be swimming for athletes who face much greater challenges.
Colonial Williamsburg and the Virginia Arts Festival join forces to present a new musical called "Free to Dream: New Songs for the American Journey."
For the second-consecutive year, the William and Mary football team has garnered a preseason No. 1 national ranking by Phil Steele's College Football Preview.
National Cable & Telecommunications Association President Michael Powell has named K. Dane Snowden to the new post of chief of staff.
Check out a video of Sydney Tafuri '11 as she choreographs a dance group on the my1693 Theatre and Dance community.
Philanthropist and business leader Joseph Plumeri, Chairman and CEO of Willis Group Holdings, will be the Grand Marshal of the 2011 Columbus Day Parade in New York City, Frank Fusaro, President of the Columbus Citizens Foundation announced today.
Stephen L. Owen, a partner practicing in the Baltimore and Washington, D.C., offices of DLA Piper, has been elected to the board of directors of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Museum, a National Historic Landmark in downtown Baltimore with a satellite site in Ellicott City.
Any day now, Ariana Berger of Springfield will be packing her bags and waving farewell to her family for a year.
Sean Graham was a cross country and track standout for the Ponies before enjoying an All-American career at William and Mary.
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