Hello, future transfer students! My name is Alex Chong! This year, I have the honor to work with an amazing group of people as part of Team Transfer. Today, I am very excited to share my transfer story and my life at the place I will soon call my ‘Alma Mater’. Who am I? I am […]

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By Adriana Shi ’24 What began as an idea from DisinfoLab analysts transformed into four published articles on Diplomatic Courier. These pieces highlight the researchers’ report about how different factors in information environments interact to create populations that are relatively more or less vulnerable to disinformation. Co-Founder Tom Plant ’22, Co-Directors Aaraj Vij ’23 and Jeremy Swack ’24, and Managing Editor Alyssa […]

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Dom Ciruzzi has spent a lot of time watching trees move. More accurately, he’s spent a lot of time measuring tree “sway”: tiny sideways movements by trees that help researchers study a forest’s role in local hydrology and water cycling. Using FitBit-like devices called accelerometers, Ciruzzi, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geology, is […]

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Back in October, early on a Saturday morning my Earth’s Surface Processes students loaded into vans and we headed west to the Blue Ridge Mountains for our weekend class field trip. All total, there were 52 of us on the field trip in six vans – we were rolling deep. Our first stop was at […]

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The Global Research Institute’s Summer Fellows Program provides international experiential learning opportunities to W&M students. This post is one installment of a series highlighting the 2022 Fellows’ key discoveries and formative experiences. By Daniella Marx ’24 I arrived in Georgia on May 26th which coincided with the Georgian Independence Day. As soon as Katrine and […]

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By Zoe Roberts ’23 The Global Research Institute’s Summer Fellows Program provides international experiential learning opportunities to W&M students. This post is one installment of a series highlighting the 2022 Fellows’ key discoveries and formative experiences. Through GRI’s Summer Fellows Program, I worked on a project evaluating the impact of sports participation on educational and […]

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Hello! My name is Katarina, and I’m a senior studying History and minoring in Hispanic Studies here at William & Mary. I’m also a proud transfer student, which means I’ve experienced finals at not one, but two colleges! I’m not saying I’m a pro, but I have had my fair share of finals seasons throughout […]

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By Anna Glass ’24 The Global Research Institute’s Summer Fellows Program provides international experiential learning opportunities to W&M students. This post is one installment of a series highlighting the 2022 Fellows’ key discoveries and formative experiences. I challenge myself to embrace uncertainty. But I face a limited volume of unknowns in Williamsburg, Virginia. I know […]

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By Maia Earl ’22 The Global Research Institute’s Summer Fellows Program provides international experiential learning opportunities to W&M students. This post is one installment of a series highlighting the 2022 Fellows’ key discoveries and formative experiences. My plan to join Professor Daniel Maliniak’s research team in Georgia came together late in the spring semester as […]

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By Aliia Woodworth ’23 The Global Research Institute’s Summer Fellows Program provides international experiential learning opportunities to W&M students. This post is one installment of a series highlighting the 2022 Fellows’ key discoveries and formative experiences. As we drove into Tbilisi from the airport, I watched the beautiful scenery of the Georgian countryside, and a […]

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By Zak Zeledon ’23 The Global Research Institute’s Summer Fellows Program provides international experiential learning opportunities to W&M students. This post is one installment of a series highlighting the 2022 Fellows’ key discoveries and formative experiences. On June 16th, 2022, I found myself on my eleventh plane ride of the year. I had spent my […]

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Recently I asked ten students to reflect on their relationship to the word activism. Here’s a glimpse into their thoughts. ACTIVIST – it’s complicated The word “activist” carries a lot of weight. When I was younger, it maybe looked more “clean cut.” Now I see how activism is, can be, should be, as part of […]

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The Global Research Institute’s Summer Fellows Program provides international experiential learning opportunities to W&M students. This post is one installment of a series highlighting the 2022 Fellows’ key discoveries and formative experiences. By Abby Stern ’24 From interviews with Georgian veterans to conversations with Russian expats to dinners with Ukrainian refugees, my time in Tbilisi […]

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Hi! I’m Katarina, a senior History major and Hispanic Studies minor here at W&M. I just started as a Transfer intern with the William & Mary Admission Office, and I’m so excited to tell you a bit about my transfer story and my experience here at William & Mary so far! If you’re reading this […]

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Erosion and sea level rise have dramatic consequences on shorelines throughout the Chesapeake Bay region. Usually, property owners stabilize their shorelines with bulkheads, revetments or other shoreline armoring methods. But these methods provide little habitat for the Bay’s many estuarine species, and prevent natural marshes from migrating upland as sea levels rise. Scientists from the […]

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Virginia has a rich geological heritage that stretches back well over a billion years to an era of geologic time known as the Mesoproterozoic. Rocks formed during the Mesoproterozoic are exposed primarily in the Blue Ridge Mountains and its foothills, as well as in curious inliers such as the Goochland domes and in the Sauratown […]

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By Anna Mehlhorn ’22 When I was a preschooler, I remember getting a fresh box of crayons and deciding to design my own set of Finding Nemo. This wasn’t just any set design, however. This was a design that would leave permanent marks across the entire wall of my family room. While I thought I […]

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William & Mary ’24 Biology major Lindsey Dillard isn’t afraid of being pinched by blue crabs. Growing up, she spent many of her summers on the water in Virginia’s Northern Neck, where she learned about the crabbing industry from her grandfather, a retired waterman. Her dual interests in crabbing and wildlife conservation drew her to […]

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