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Diving into the Deep End

By Sean Nguyen ’24 The Global Research Institute’s Summer Fellows Program provides international experiential learning opportunities to W&M students. This post is one installment of

Engaging with Neglected Conflicts: My Summer Advocating for Africa with Amnesty International

By Abigail Taylor ’24 The Global Research Institute’s Summer Fellows Program provides international experiential learning opportunities to W&M students. This post is one installment of

Catalyzing Global Climate Resilience: Working at an Impact Innovation Firm in Nairobi

By Amy Browning ‘26  The Global Research Institute’s Summer Fellows Program provides international experiential learning opportunities to W&M students. This post is one installment of

Experiencing International Civil Service and Diplomacy: My Experience at UNDP in New York

By Sailor Miao ’24 The Global Research Institute’s Summer Fellows Program provides international experiential learning opportunities to W&M students. This post is one installment of

From Ideas to Impact: GRI’s Founding Research Labs Celebrate 20 Years

By Martha Reilly Good ideas can come from anywhere. Twenty years ago, they came from the Green Leafe Cafe, where Brad Parks’s honors thesis

It’s Time To Talk About World War III: GRI Sits down with Stephen Wertheim

Ahead of Stephen Wertheim’s public talk at William & Mary — hosted by GRI’s Security & Foreign Policy Initiative — the Institute’s Communications Assistant

W&M Global Innovation Challenge hosts first hybrid competition with global representation from winning teams

By Elizabeth Marcus ’26 and Reese O’Brien ’24  Two weeks ago, 110 undergraduate students from 21 universities representing seven countries across the world competed

Envisioning Shifts in U.S. Alliance Structure

By Brennen Micheal ’24 This post features a student’s reflections on “The Past, Present, and Future of U.S. Alliances,” a conference recently hosted by

Aground on the Hampton Bar with the Sea Making a Fair Breach

200 years ago this month, in early April 1823, a ship foundered and sunk onto a shallow sand bar in Hampton Roads, Virginia. On