The 2021-2022 year-in-review video captures what has become William & Mary's new normal: adaptation that sustains what the university values most.
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W&M Life
Research & Scholarship
W&M’s Office of Strategic Cultural Partnerships announces faculty fellows
William & Mary’s Office of Strategic Cultural Partnerships has announced its inaugural group of faculty fellows, who will conduct projects to advance the office’s mission.
Excellence
Making noise
Joe Laresca ’15, founder of a powerhouse NYC creative company, adds Forbes’ 30 Under 30 list to his achievements.
Research & Scholarship
APS fellowship helps complete transition from machine gunner to researcher
U.S. Marine Jacob Stechmann ’24 became interested in medicine by helping Army medics treat wounded Kurds in Syria. He now researches artery function at William & Mary.
Research & Scholarship
Justin Cammarota awarded DOE funding to research at Jefferson Lab
Justin Cammarota has just received a grant toward continuing his research at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility.
Excellence
W&M honors students, staff who demonstrate Values in Action
Isaiah Johnson, an officer with the William & Mary Police Department, and Christian Olver, a member of the Dining Services/Sodexo staff, are recognized along with five student organizations.
Research & Scholarship
Grant explores impact of meditation on well-being, effectiveness of counselors
Associate Professor Daniel Gutierrez and Stephanie Dorais Ph.D. ’21 are exploring the role of contemplative practices in promoting prosociality and resilience among mental health counselors.
Belonging
W&M’s first in-person Juneteenth event set for June 17
William & Mary will host its first in-person Juneteenth celebration on Friday, June 17 at the site of the recently completed Hearth: Memorial to the Enslaved.
Research & Scholarship
Advantage vs. disadvantage
Work by Associate Professor of Government A. Maurits van der Veen and researchers from Carnegie Mellon, University of Texas at Dallas and Middlebury College appears in The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Excellence
Three W&M undergrads awarded Boren Scholarships
Collin Absher ’24, Sam Rofman ’23 and Mira Wroblewski ’23 will receive funding to study abroad in the coming year.
Research & Scholarship
‘Position of privilege’: Trip abroad widens perspective on immigration issues
W&M’s Embedded Spain and Gibraltar Program gives students, some of whom are first-generation children of Latin American immigrants raised in the U.S., an up-close view of immigration issues in Europe.
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University News
Gallery content: Commencement 2022
Mellody Hobson, a nationally recognized expert on financial literacy and chair of the Starbucks board of directors, spoke at W&M’s undergraduate Commencement ceremony.
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Excellence
Gallery content: W&M honors faculty, staff and students with Commencement awards
Honorees from various segments of campus were recognized at Commencement May 20 and 21 as annual awards were presented to graduates, staff and faculty members.
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W&M supply chain expert analyzes factors affecting baby formula shortage
As many parents all over the U.S. look high and low for baby formula for their infants, the causes and possible solutions to the shortage are being dissected.
Service & Community
W&M awards Green Fee funding to 22 projects in 2021-2022 academic year
William & Mary Sustainability has announced the Green Fee awards for the 2021-2022 academic year.
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Marilyn Ward Midyette ’75, W&M alumni leader who transformed the alumni experience, is set to retire
Marilyn Ward Midyette ’75 is set to retire Aug. 1 as the leader of the university’s alumni engagement efforts and the W&M Alumni Association.
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W&M undergraduates to see zero increase in tuition
Action on FY23 tuition and fees was taken by William & Mary's Board of Visitors during a May 19, 2022 meeting of their Executive Committee.
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Belonging
Video content: W&M’s first Black Alumni Reunion celebrates a growing community
William & Mary hosted its inaugural Black Alumni Reunion on May 6-8 at the university’s campus with a series of programs, ceremonies and receptions honoring the Black experience at W&M.
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W&M Libraries announces new Archive of American LGBTQ Political and Legal History
A new and unique Archive of American LGBTQ Political and Legal History is being established at Swem Library in memory of renowned historian John Boswell ’69.
Excellence
30 W&M educators receive Plumeri Awards recognizing excellence
Recipients of the 2020, 2021 and 2022 Plumeri Awards were honored on May 13 at a ceremony in the Hunter Hall Ballroom of William & Mary’s Alumni House.
Research & Scholarship
Anna Mehlhorn ’22 carries on a venerable tradition of combining art and science
Anna Mehlhorn has combined her biology major and art/art history minor to follow in the steps of the great naturalist-illustrators of the past.
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William & Mary team wins CSBS Data Analytics Competition
A team of students from the Raymond A. Mason School of Business at William & Mary has won the Conference of State Bank Supervisors 2022 Data Analytics Competition.
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Seeing the invisible: W&M physicists designing optical device to spot hidden objects
W&M physicists and students are working on a project funded by the U.S. Department of Defense’s Army Research Office to develop a device with the capacity to see what is invisible to the naked eye.
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W&M breaks ground on ‘magnificent centerpiece’
William & Mary broke ground Monday on an Athletics Complex designed to improve the student-athlete experience while enhancing the university as a whole.
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W&M Life
Gallery content: Like a good picture, Jamie Holt’s time at W&M is worth a thousand words
The graduating senior piled up photographs and memories from four years well spent at W&M.
Service & Community
For W&M law grads, crossing North America in a camper van opens new career vistas
For Paul Carlino J.D. ’98 and Rebecca Eichler J.D. ’98, what started out as a dream and a poster board collage in their kitchen turned into a life-changing, cross-continent road trip from Virginia to Panama.
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W&M alumnus wins Pulitzer Prize for illustrated reporting and commentary
Walter Hickey ’12 was awarded the Pulitzer Prize Monday as part of a team at Insider that used graphic illustration to report on the plight of the Uyghur community in China.
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Belonging
Video content: ‘A permanent marker of their existence’: W&M dedicates memorial to the enslaved
An estimated 800 students, faculty, staff, alumni and community members gathered for the dedication of Hearth: Memorial to the Enslaved, which honors the people whom the university enslaved over the course of 172 years.
Research & Scholarship
VIMS dedicates new aquaculture facility
The new Acuff Center for Aquaculture will advance the science of farming shellfish. The 22,000-square-foot facility houses a shellfish research hatchery designed to accommodate the operation of VIMS’ Aquaculture Genetics and Breeding Technology Center (ABC)…
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W&M student Commencement speakers to discuss community, power of a good story
Eli Rothleder ’22 will speak at the undergraduate ceremony on May 20, and Augustine Manga J.D.’22 will speak at the graduate student event on May 21.