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19 new grad students welcomed at VIMS

The Virginia Institute of Marine Science, Gloucester Point, welcomed 19 new graduate students recently.

That brings total enrollment in the College of William and Mary’s School of Marine Science at VIMS to 91 students, spokesperson Erin Kelly said.

The new students are bringing "an infusion of new ideas and youthful enthusiasm to help maintain the high quality of research and education at VIMS," said Dean and Director John Wells.

The class includes five foreign students: Haixing Wang and Fei Ye, both from China; Nicole Marshall from Canada, Cindy Marin Martinez from El Salvador, and Lucia Safi from Brazil.

 

The new class includes students with no shortage of impressive accomplishments under their belts. For example, Kelly said master’s student William Goldsmith comes to VIMS with a bachelor’s degree from Harvard University and has held positions as varied as a freelance magazine writer and a deckhand. Wang completed his undergraduate work at the Huaz...

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