Declan Tevyaw is a current student of international business at the University of Rhode Island, and his research has a particular emphasis on special foreign policy, specifically policy regarding the Antarctic, the oceans, and space, in relation to international commerce. He has experience working with researchers at the cutting edge of their field from his time as a manager of the Mount Snow venue of Gordon Research Conferences, an institution that has featured multiple Nobel Prize winners and influential scientists such as Watson and Crick, the researchers credited for discovering the double-helix form of DNA. This time managing research conferences and seminars of up to 200 attendees allowed him exposure to a plethora of raw, unpublished research in a variety of disciplines, and this exposure fuels his continued pursuit of a job in academia. He holds the role of Recording Secretary on his fraternity’s Executive Board, and he is a rising sophomore for the Spring 2023 term. His interests include skiing, audio-engineering, reading, playing the piano, and chess, and he has two cats named Phineas and Mabel.