The College of William & Mary’s Batten School and Virginia Institute of Marine Science celebrated 27 students who earned their M.S., M.A. and Ph.D. degrees throughout the academic year on May 17. These students are, front row from left, Rachel Dixon (Ph.D., May 2025), Brian Kim (Ph.D., August 2024), Kaitlyn Kowaleski (Ph.D. candidate, August 2025), Nihal Guennouni (M.S., May 2025), Stephanie Letourneau (M.A., May 2025), Xuqing Chen (Ph.D., May 2025); second row, Julia Grenn (Ph.D. candidate, August 2025), Abigail Sisti (Ph.D., January 2025), Emma Wilkinson (M.S., May 2025), Evan Flynn (Ph.D., May 2025), Olivia Szot (M.S., January 2025), Madeline Pitsenbarger (M.A., May 2025); back row, Associate Dean of Academic Affairs Siddhartha Mitra, Grace Breitenbeck (M.S. candidate, August 2025), Julie Gross (Ph.D. candidate, August 2025), Shannon Smith (Ph.D., January 2025), Grace Molino (Ph.D., May 2025), Nikole Beck (M.A., May 2025), Tyler Messerschmidt (M.S., January 2025), Ann Jacob Wood...