Summer Fellows Program

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Interested in gaining summer work experience overseas? With the support of the Robert and Susan Trice International Fellowship Endowment and the Class of 1970 Endowment, the Global Research Institute Summer Fellows Program provides international experiential learning opportunities to W&M students.

 

Past GRI Summer Fellows have hailed from a variety of disciplines, including data science, government, biology, public policy, and economics. Successful applicants are paired with W&M faculty and/or international organizations to conduct research and promote capacity building around the world.

Past projects include: creating a dataset on Indonesian electoral outcomes, an evaluation of the Monrovia Football Academy, a white paper on applications of blockchain technology for Korean reunification through reforestation, a set of data governance policies for a new geospatial platform within a UN agency, and a randomized controlled trial on community policing and public trust in Colombia. 

GRI Summer Fellows receive a $4,000-$6,000 stipend as support for their summer research experience. Some placements do not require any foreign language knowledge or specialized technical skills, while some do; it depends entirely on the needs of the research project, supervising faculty member, and/or external organization.

GRI Summer Fellow Application and Eligibility

The GRI Summer Fellows Program is open to students in all disciplines. Applicants must be continuing undergraduate students in good standing; if you are a graduating senior then you are not eligible to apply.

Applications for the Summer 2026 cohort are available here. 

Want to learn more? RSVP for our info session on December 2. 

Please contact GRI Senior Program Manager of Student Initiatives [[klhouck,Kelly Houck]] with any questions.