William & Mary

2026 · award

Genome-resolved extremophile fungal atlas for novel enzyme discovery and stress-tolerant pathway innovation across geothermal systems

Geoffrey Zahn · William & Mary · funded by U.S. Department of Energy

2026–2027 · other · Gender Equity and Governance

Hewlett Gender Equity and Governance — William & Mary

William & Mary · funded by William and Flora Hewlett Foundation

$250k

2026–2027 · research · Individual Freedom and Free Markets

Understanding and stimulating demand for effective charter schools in Bogotá, Colombia

Felipe Barrera-Osorio · William & Mary · funded by Templeton World Charity Foundation

$249.1kSchool Choice and Performance

2026 · grant · National Leadership Grants - Libraries

National Leadership Grants - Libraries — College of William and Mary (FY2026)

William & Mary · funded by Institute of Museum and Library Services

$750k

2026 · training · Beckman Scholars Program

Characterization of novel phage satellites: Extracellular Prophage-Inducing Particles

Heather Qian · William & Mary · funded by Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation

2026 · training · Beckman Scholars Program

Investigating Cancer Protein Interactions Using Photocrosslinking Non-Canonical Amino Acids

Nabeeha Anis · William & Mary · funded by Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation

2025–2028 · grant · Continuing Grant

Exploiting TICT to Enrich Fluorophore Information for Single-molecule Diagnostics

Kristin Wustholz · William & Mary · funded by National Science Foundation

$488.4k

2025–2030 · grant · Standard Grant

CAREER: Advancing Precision Nucleon Tomography through Deep Learning and Uncertainty Quantification

Cristiano Fanelli · William & Mary · funded by National Science Foundation

$499.3k

2025–2027 · grant · Standard Grant

CRII: SHF: Advancing Sustainable Software Engineering Practices with Energy-Efficient Large Language Models for Code

Antonio Mastropaolo · William & Mary · funded by National Science Foundation

$175kGreen IT and Sustainability

2025–2028 · grant · Standard Grant

Collaborative Research: eMB: Mathematical Models for Animal Movement, Memory, and Cognition with Applications to Quantitative Ecology

Junping Shi · William & Mary · funded by National Science Foundation

$87.1kDiffusion and Search Dynamics

2025–2028 · grant · Standard Grant

Managing Sustainment of Forests and Fisheries

Martin Gallivan · William & Mary · funded by National Science Foundation

$286.3k

2025–2028 · grant · Standard Grant

Collaborative Research: OAC Core: AI-Surrogate Enhanced Heterogeneous Acceleration for Large-Scale Power Grid Simulation

Jie Ren · William & Mary · funded by National Science Foundation

$200k

2025–2027 · grant · Standard Grant

CRII: III: Dynamic Prompting and Pruning for Measuring and Controlling Memorization in Text-Attributed Graphs

Yanfu Zhang · William & Mary · funded by National Science Foundation

$175kAdvanced Graph Neural Networks

2025–2028 · grant · Standard Grant

Collaborative Research: Supporting Students' Modeling Practice Through a Large Language Model-Powered Pedagogical Agent in an Augmented Reality Learning Environment

Huajie Shao · William & Mary · funded by National Science Foundation

$241.4k

2025–2030 · grant · Standard Grant

CAREER: Towards Next-Generation Human-in-the-Loop and Human-over-the-Loop Computer Architecture Performance Analysis Infrastructure

Yifan Sun · William & Mary · funded by National Science Foundation

$598.6k

2025–2027 · grant · Standard Grant

Collaborative Research: Decoding microbiome diversity and potential function in the Antarctic pteropod Limacina rangii

Bongkeun Song · William & Mary · funded by National Science Foundation

$362.8k

2025–2028 · grant · Standard Grant

Enhancing AI Literacy and Resilience through Intergenerational Digital Storytelling among Older Adults

Yixuan Zhang · William & Mary · funded by National Science Foundation

$661.5k

2025–2028 · other · Gender Equity and Governance

Hewlett Gender Equity and Governance — William & Mary

William & Mary · funded by William and Flora Hewlett Foundation

$1M

2025 · fellowship · AERA Minority Dissertation Fellowship in Education Research

Reading Rights: The History and Tradition of Black Literacy

Vania Blaiklock · William & Mary · funded by American Educational Research Association

2025 · training · Beckman Scholars Program

Characterizing the role of TTBK-8.1/2 in C. elegans sperm motility and development

Jenna Jablonski · William & Mary · funded by Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation

2025 · research · Beckman Speaker and Conference Support Fund

W&M Biology Department Seminar Series: Dr. Wesley Wong on Single Molecule and Nanoscale Biophysics

Yigit Simsek · William & Mary · funded by Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation

2025 · training · Beckman Scholars Program

Linking Microbiomes and Odor in Virginia Kombucha

Sarah Foster · William & Mary · funded by Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation

2024–2028 · grant · Standard Grant

Collaborative Research: SHF: Medium: Enabling Graphics Processing Unit Performance Simulation for Large-Scale Workloads with Lightweight Simulation Methods

Yifan Sun · William & Mary · funded by National Science Foundation

$376.2kParallel Computing and Optimization Techniques

2024–2025 · grant · Standard Grant

Collaborative Research: EAGER: Designing Nanomaterials to Reveal the Mechanism of Single Nanoparticle Photoemission Intermittency

Kristin Wustholz · William & Mary · funded by National Science Foundation

$50.1k

2024–2027 · grant · Standard Grant

Collaborative Research: OAC Core: Learning AI Surrogate of Large-Scale Spatiotemporal Simulations for Coastal Circulation

Jie Ren · William & Mary · funded by National Science Foundation

$200k

2024–2027 · grant · Standard Grant

Collaborative Research: RUI: Topological methods for analyzing shifting patterns and population collapse

Sarah Day · William & Mary · funded by National Science Foundation

$192.5kTopological and Geometric Data Analysis

2024–2026 · grant · Standard Grant

CRII: SaTC: Evolving I/O Protocols for Confidential Computing

Stephen Herwig · William & Mary · funded by National Science Foundation

$175kCloud Data Security Solutions

2024–2027 · grant · Standard Grant

Collaborative Research: Fostering Mathematical Modeling Competencies through Collaborative Learning in a Large Language Model (LLM) Simulated Virtual Classroom

Yixuan Zhang · William & Mary · funded by National Science Foundation

$321.9k

2024–2027 · grant · Continuing Grant

CAREER: At The Convergence of Life Cycles and Reproduction: Insights Into the Diversity of Life

Stacy Krueger-Hadfield · William & Mary · funded by National Science Foundation

$874k

2024–2026 · grant · Standard Grant

Elements: A workflow for efficient and reproducible permafrost geomorphology analysis

Joanmarie Del Vecchio · William & Mary · funded by National Science Foundation

$394kClimate change and permafrost

2024–2026 · grant · Standard Grant

Collaborative Research: III: Small: Taming Large-Scale Streaming Graphs in an Open World

Yi He · William & Mary · funded by National Science Foundation

$281.3kAdvanced Graph Neural Networks

2024–2029 · fellowship · Fellowship Award

Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)

Katherine Davis Small · William & Mary · funded by National Science Foundation

$299.5k

2024–2027 · grant · Continuing Grant

Precision Studies of Neutrino Oscillations and Interactions

Patricia Vahle · William & Mary · funded by National Science Foundation

$1.1M

2024–2027 · grant · Standard Grant

Topics in Physics Beyond the Standard Model

Christopher Carone · William & Mary · funded by National Science Foundation

$150k

2024–2027 · grant · Standard Grant

Collaborative Research: SHF: Medium: End-to-End Resilience in Autonomous Driving Systems: Strategic Vulnerability Assessment and Mitigation

Evgenia Smirni · William & Mary · funded by National Science Foundation

$272.2k

2024–2026 · grant · Standard Grant

CRII: CSR: Towards an Edge-enabled Software-Defined Vehicle Framework for Dynamic Over-the-Air Updates

Sidi Lu · William & Mary · funded by National Science Foundation

$175kVehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANETs)

2024–2026 · grant · Standard Grant

Planning: CIRC: Planning-C: A Holistic Benchmark for Accelerating Research in Large Language Models for Software Engineering

Denys Poshyvanyk · William & Mary · funded by National Science Foundation

$100k

2024–2026 · research · Global Health

William & Mary - To offer up-to-date evidence on the best logical and physical technical architectures and approaches for hosting large language models (LLM) to per...

William & Mary · funded by Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

$239.5k

2024–2027 · fellowship · Fellowship Award

Postdoctoral Fellowship: PRFB: Edges in Ecotones: Differentiating processes at the leading and lagging edges of the marsh-forest ecotone

Justus Jobe · William & Mary · funded by National Science Foundation

$240k

2024–2026 · grant · Standard Grant

CRII: III: Pursuing Interpretability in Utilitarian Online Learning Models

Yi He · William & Mary · funded by National Science Foundation

$139.7kExplainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI)