By Lauren French ’22 While unheard of by a majority of students, not many initiatives show William & Mary’s campus-wide commitment to sustainability quite like the Green Fee. The Green Fee is a fund that was voted on unanimously by W&M students in 2008 and provides funding to a wide array of sustainability projects. All […]

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By Sophia Sabardine ’21 How will we stay connected with virtual outreach? Most student organizations are all too familiar with this daunting task that the fall semester is challenging us with. Interning with the W&M Office of Sustainability and being in charge of event planning has presented me with a challenge, but also with new […]

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We Admit It! Summer has been a little quieter in Williamsburg this year. We miss having a campus filled with prospective students and families, helping them decide whether William & Mary could be their next home. We miss having our Senior Interviewers in the office, bringing new perspectives and cheerful smiles. But despite all this, […]

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By Sasan Faraj ’23 Going into this past summer, I didn’t know what to expect of it. Buildings were closed, internships were cancelled, and friends couldn’t see each other in groups. Going down what seemed like a pretty isolated path of staying at home, I was fortunate enough to gain a remote internship at AidData, […]

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By Ethan Harrison ’20 “Alright, Ethan you’re up!” — with those words, I (nervously) began to present the research I had worked on for the majority of my time at William & Mary. The usual suspects from the Global Research Institute were in the room, including Brad Parks of AidData and Prof. Philip Roessler of […]

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By Katherine Armstrong ’20 For most of my life, I thought of migration as possibility. The possibility to live, work, put down roots, and prosper in a new country. I learned and thought about the ways that host countries restrict immigration or make immigrants feel unwelcome. Yet it wasn’t until I read Tsourapas’ piece, “A […]

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Editors Note: The Project on International Peace and Security (PIPS) is one of the premier undergraduate think tanks in the country. Based at W&M’s Global Research Institute, PIPS is designed to bridge the gap between the academic and foreign policy communities in the area of undergraduate education. PIPS research fellows identify emerging international security issues […]

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Editors Note: The Project on International Peace and Security (PIPS) is one of the premier undergraduate think tanks in the country. Based at W&M’s Global Research Institute, PIPS is designed to bridge the gap between the academic and foreign policy communities in the area of undergraduate education. PIPS research fellows identify emerging international security issues […]

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Guest blogger Ryann England writes about leaders in action – putting love in action. The story written is based on the characters of Winnie the Pooh, written by A.A. Milne. Last Saturday morning, I traversed through a birch tree forest. The enchantment of speckled white wood and shimmers of yellowed leaves drew me from my path […]

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Last week, with a team of undergraduate research students we commenced a Game of Boxes in the wilds of central Virginia. The Game of Boxes is a difficult game, as in a normal year summer field work is a ‘For the Bold’ kind of endeavor. In 2020, with our COVID safety protocols, the challenge was […]

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About a month ago, I was on what felt like the tenth Zoom call in a row centered on the statement, “there’s so much we don’t know.” At the time, that sentiment was mostly in reference to COVID-19 and the uncertainty of what service-learning, community-engagement, university life, and life in general would look like in […]

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By Madeline Bertagnolli ’22 William & Mary is leading the way in sustainability, but none of our campus knows it! Last fall, I was on a student research team of three in which we gathered and reported on the Greenhouse Gas Emissions for fiscal year 2018 in a long report. Greenhouse gas reporting is done […]

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By Jahnavi Prabhala ’22 Right before I joined The Project on International Peace and Security (PIPS), an undergraduate think tank based at W&M’s Global Research Institute, I found myself approaching the point in my college career where my academics were becoming a disjunctive slew of classes. While I was a STEM student who was largely […]

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By Greta Mattheis ’21 Everyone on the Earth Week Committee felt disheartened the day we realized we would not be returning for the rest of the semester. The Earth Week Festival, scheduled to be on April 25th, was not going to come to fruition this year, at least not in the way we had planned. […]

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By Hayes Pearce ’22 Research isn’t linear, and COVID-19 has certainly reminded us of that. While many of our lives have been uprooted by pandemic, Ignite and the Global Research Institute are continuing their investigations. For Ignite, we are looking at how social and spatial determinants of health, international aid distribution, and community capacity influence […]

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By Alexandra Byrne ’23 I find it hard to believe that anyone who is a student at William & Mary would not know the Global Research Institute’s slogan: “Big Ideas Live Here.” It is in big letters on a third-floor wall of the Institute’s home at 427 Scotland Street. It is on t-shirts and flyers. […]

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In the past week, it feels to me as though the world has been flipped on its head. Watching the news almost feels like watching a movie in history class on the Civil Rights Movement. When we rang in the New Year looking forward to the roaring 20s I know this is not what most […]

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Like most college professors, I had to transition abruptly to online teaching in March 2020 because of COVID-19. Until then, I had never Zoomed or taught students online, so this was a big change and not one I welcomed. Over the years, I’ve fully integrated the internet into my courses, regularly used videos and other […]

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By Moria Johnson ’20 The Teaching, Research, and International Policy Project, fondly known as TRIP, was founded in 2003 at William & Mary and is probably one of the more obscure projects hosted by the GRI. One of the most frequent questions I receive about my research is: “what exactly do you guys do?” For […]

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