Research Facilities

Applied Science has research facilities in several buildings on campus and long-standing collaborations with two nearby Federal laboratories.

Integrated Science Center

The Integrated Science Center was constructed to integrate William & Mary’s science programs; allowing increased opportunity for multidisciplinary research. The ground floor of ISC3 is home to the Department of Applied Science. ISC4 opened in January 2026 and includes several Applied Science labs as well as the home of William & Mary's new 8,000 sguare foot Makerspace.

SciClone

Research Computing maintains many HPC resources which are free to use for faculty, staff and students working on research / classroom projects. We have two main HPC clusters, one on main-campus (sciclone) and one on VIMS campus (chesapeake). The combined double-precision floating point operations per second (or FLOPS) for all HPC resources between both campuses is about 600 TFLOPS, or 600 trillion per second.

Jefferson Lab

The Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (JLab) in Newport News is 17 miles from the William & Mary campus.

NASA Langley Research Center

NASA Langley Research Center (NASA LaRC) is located in Hampton, 32 miles by interstate highway from the William & Mary campus. NASA-LaRC, one of NASA's nine principal research centers, employs 2,800 including 1,300 science and engineering professionals.