NAME:
College of William and Mary

HOME TOWN:
Williamsburg, Virginia

MASCOT:
William and Mary is known as "the Tribe." In 2006, NCAA deemed the nickname appropriate but deemed the feathers on our former athletic logo inappropriate. In response to the ruling, we are now in search of a mascot.

SCHOOL COLORS:
Green, gold and silver

PARTICLE PHYSICS COLLABORATIONS:
MINOS, NOvA, MINERvA and Mu2e

EXPERIMENTS AT FERMILAB:
MINOS, NOvA, MINERvA and Mu2e

SCIENTISTS AND STUDENTS AT FERMILAB:
Three faculty, three emeritus, four graduate students, a eight current undergraduates and 18 undergraduates during the last five years.

COLLABORATING AT FERMILAB SINCE:
2004

MAJOR CONTRIBUTIONS TO FERMILAB EXPERIMENTS:
MINOS: installation; magnetics; muon neutrino and antineutrino disappearance analyses; electron neutrino appearance analysis; near detector neutrino cross section measurements; beam systematics; MC generation; test beam operation and analysis. NOvA: calibration working group. MINERvA: construction; installation; tracking prototype commissioning.

PARTICLE PHYSICS RESEARCH FOCUS:
Neutrinos

WHAT SETS PARTICLE PHYSICS AT COLLEGE OF WILLIAM AND MARY UNIVERSITY APART?
William and Mary high energy physics rapidly expanded over the last five years and has attracted a number of new graduate students. We have an active mix of hardware, analysis, and R&D experience and strong connections with our colleagues at nearby JLab. In addition to getting Ph.D. students involved, we require every William and Mary physics major to complete a research project (18 HEP undergrads in the last five years).

Our physics building is named after Thomas Jefferson’s science professor (Small) and is being expanded to double the research space.

FUNDING AGENCY:
National Science Foundation

FAVORITE NATIONAL LABORATORY:
Fermilab

Members of the Summer 2009 Experimental High Energy Physics Group at W&M. Posing in front of the new high bay assembly wing being added to the William Small Physical Laboratory. Back row: Jeff Nelson, Josh Devan, Mike Kordosky, Eddie Charlton, Pete de Castro, Aaron Krajeski and Chris Becke. Front row: Wendy Nelson, Tricia Vahle, Alena Gavrilenko, Stephen Kane, Bruce Pollock, Dave Edmondson, Will Henninger and Sabina Samipour.

Members of the experimental high-energy physics group at W&M in front of the MINOS far detector at the Soudan Underground Laboratory in June 2009. From left: Stephen Coleman, graduate student; Jeff Nelson, professor; Alena Gavrilenko, graduate student; Tricia Vahle, professor and Brent Fadum, high school teacher.