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Fall into arts at William & Mary

The Year of the Arts at William & Mary continues with a fall semester featuring a broad palette of offerings from animation instruction to classical music to satirical theatre.
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‘How we got here’: Commencement 2024

Approximately 2,800 graduates participated in the Commencement festivities, witnessed by around 12,000 family members and friends. Judge John Charles Thomas, the first African American and youngest appointee to the Supreme Court of Virginia, served as…
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Year of the Arts fills spring calendar

The new semester brings with it a vast array of opportunities for people to enjoy the arts at William & Mary as the university continues its celebration of the Year of the Arts.
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Highlights from the 2023 Opening Convocation ceremony

On Aug. 30, William & Mary celebrated the 2023 Opening Convocation ceremony, an annual tradition held on the first day of undergraduate classes to mark the beginning of the academic year and to welcome new…
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W&M’s new students move into residence halls

William & Mary is welcoming about 175 new transfer students this fall along with about 1,630 students in the Class of 2027. They began moving into residence halls on Aug. 24, 2023.
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Alumna paints murals in Sadler Center

Zara Fina Stasi ’12, muralist and founder of Good for the Bees, recently returned to William & Mary to paint two new murals in the Sadler Center.