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One of the main reasons I chose to go to William & Mary over other universities was because of their literary magazines. W&M is home to many amazing publications that cover various niches: fashion, music, you name it. As a creative writer and aspiring photographer, getting involved with litmags as a college student was a […]
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A group of William & Mary researchers from the Department of Geology and the Environment & Sustainability program have found that microscopic charcoal pieces from Lake Matoaka sediments correspond closely with events in American history. This research builds on other published studies investigating the sediment record in Lake Matoaka, the 40-acre, 300-year-old mill pond on […]
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When it comes to getting involved in extracurricular organizations, there are two types of freshman: those who signed up for twenty clubs at the activities fair, and those who couldn’t seem to find anything. As someone who fell into the former group, I initially had trouble balancing academics with after-school activities because I didn’t want […]
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By Nailah Johnson ’24 Last summer I worked with a team of William & Mary undergraduate students to study the geology of central Virginia. In particular, my research focused on a suite of enigmatic metamorphosed rocks in the Smith River Allochthon, which is a controversial piece of geologic real estate in the southwestern Virginia Piedmont. Previous regional […]
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In January 2020, I co-led the William & Mary study abroad program to Oman (commonly known as Rock Music Oman). As we returned home from that program, little did we know that we were weeks away from a pandemic that would shutter the world and effectively limit global travel for over two years. It’s January […]
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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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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. This post was originally published on BFA Global. By Thomas Liu ’22 Climate change is happening at an unprecedented rate and intensity worldwide, threatening […]
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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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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 Katrine Westgaard ’23 I was fortunate enough to be selected as a GRI Summer Fellow, through which I conducted research for Professor […]
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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 Chuck Bailey Scientists like their acronyms, and in some fields the more acronyms the better. Earlier this year I received a GSA AGeS-DiGS grant – whoa, that is a lot of acronym! When decoded this stands for a Geological Society of America’s Geochronology Division’s Award for Geochronology Student Research – Diversity in GeoSciences. I’m collaborating […]
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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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By Ian DeHaven ’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. In July 2021, a year before my trip to Tunisia through GRI, Tunisian President and former law professor Kais […]
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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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Last weekend the Geology Department set forth on our Fall departmental trip for a geological field trip down the James River in canoes. The late summer weather was glorious, and the James River’s flow was just right– not too high and not too low. On Friday evening, our crew of 22 camped along the James […]
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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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