William & Mary continues to progress on improvements that transform facilities for students, staff, faculty and visitors.
On Feb. 6, during Charter Day Weekend, the W&M community celebrated the grand opening of the Mackesy Sports Performance Center — known as the Mack — a space that elevates the daily experience of all student-athletes with new strength training, sports medicine, mental performance, academic and practice spaces, as well as several new locker rooms.
Also during Charter Day Weekend, we reached a major milestone in the construction of Robert M. Gates Hall with the Topping Off Ceremony. Gates Hall will be home to five interdisciplinary centers, which generate research of national and international consequence: AidData, the Global Research Institute, the Institute for Integrative Conservation, the Whole of Government Center of Excellence and the Gates Global Policy Center.
In the center of campus, Integrated Science Center 4 (ISC4) was dedicated on April 23. Home to the new School of Computing, Data Sciences & Physics, ISC4 features classrooms, a lecture hall, multiple collaboration spaces and more than 35 instructional and research labs. The ground floor is home to the university’s new makerspace, with more than 8,000 square feet for hands-on design, experimentation and creative problem-solving.
As campus gains innovative new spaces, W&M is also preserving our distinctive historic campus. The Wren Preservation project is nearly complete. This year-long effort addressed moisture-related and maintenance issues in the nation’s oldest university building, replacing the nearly 100-year-old roof, repairing gutters, stones, plaster, wood, bricks and mortar, as well as waterproofing the foundation and installing a new in-ground drainage system.
