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LUFA*
On June 13, 2024
![Elizabeth's grandmother holding her as a baby](https://wmblogs.wm.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/oma-280x190.jpg)
“That’s too long of a name for such a little baby,” my grandmother remarked when she learned my name was Elizabeth. I think my
A Penguin in a Rainstorm Enjoys Some Charcuterie
On April 24, 2024
![a graphic of some of the images in students' similes - hour glass, frog holding a flower, magnifying glass, cracked egg, puppy, tree in a book, mirror, parent talking to a child, rice in a colander, penguin, charcuterie, squirrel on a toy train](https://wmblogs.wm.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/IG-Posts13-280x190.png)
An egg, initially new and unaware but cracked open and slowly understanding what’s around me A squirrel, running around campus seeking new opportunities A
Traipsing across the Piedmont: A Day Trip thru Geology and History
On March 3, 2024
![W&M geologists at Appomattox Court House](https://wmblogs.wm.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Traipsing_Fig9-280x190.jpg)
The W&M Geology Departmental Spring field trip left the Atlantic Coastal Plain last Sunday morning for a quick dash westward into the Piedmont: a
Jamestown and Geodiscovery
On January 23, 2024
![Colorful map of Jamestown Island showing most of the island as submerged land](https://wmblogs.wm.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/JTIthumbnail-280x190.jpeg)
Jamestown Island is a low patch of ground in southeastern Virginia that’s witnessed its share of American history. Settler colonists arrived from England in
Eras (Elizabeth’s Version)
On July 14, 2023
![OCE logo](https://wmblogs.wm.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/ocelogo2.png)
The Office of Community Engagement just concluded our “Year of Transformation” focused on discerning how we want to evolve our approach to partnerships, relationships,
From Ideas to Impact: GRI’s Founding Research Labs Celebrate 20 Years
On June 23, 2023
![Mike Tierney and Brad Parks sitting in front of large whiteboards with detailed flow charts and graphs illustrated](https://wmblogs.wm.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/tierney-parks-whiteboards-280x190.jpg)
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
Aground on the Hampton Bar with the Sea Making a Fair Breach
On April 25, 2023
![Imagery of Hampton Roads and the shipwreck site showing the shipwreck just west of Fort Monroe and northwest of Fort Wool](https://wmblogs.wm.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Thumbnailer-280x190.jpeg)
200 years ago this month, in early April 1823, a ship foundered and sunk onto a shallow sand bar in Hampton Roads, Virginia. On
William & Mary Returns to Oman
On January 17, 2023
![A sunrise in the desert](https://wmblogs.wm.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/WMO23_tnail-280x190.jpg)
In January 2020, I co-led the William & Mary study abroad program to Oman (commonly known as Rock Music Oman). As we returned home
Crabtree Falls and Landscape Disequilibrium in Virginia’s Blue Ridge Mountains
On November 29, 2022
![Oblique digital view of the Crabtree Falls area](https://wmblogs.wm.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/CrabtreeThumbnail-280x190.jpg)
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