William & Mary has received a $100 million donation that aims to help coastal communities adapt to changing temperatures, rising seas and more intense storms. The university said Wednesday that the gift from Virginia philanthropist Jane Batten is the largest in the school’s history. It will establish the Batten School of Coastal & Marine Sciences.
This May 19, 2018 photo provided by William & Mary shows undergraduates enrolled in William & Mary’s field course marine science minor exploring a mudflat at low tide on Virginia ’s Eastern Shore. The university announced Wednesday July 24, 2024, that it’s expanding a new major in marine science, hiring more faculty and deepening research into coastal resilience with a $100 million gift from philanthropist Jane Batten. NORFOLK, Va.
William & Mary is based in Williamsburg, Virginia. But the new Batten School will be located alongside the university’s Virginia Institute for Marine Science, which is 17 miles east of campus near the Chesapeake Bay.William & Mary has seen growing demand in surveys of its 7,000 undergraduates for a major that helps take on challenges posed by climate change, university President Katherine A. Rowe told The Associated Press.
Students will make use of the university’s Virginia Institute of Marine Science, known as VIMS, which has spent more than 80 years researching and developing solutions for coastal communities. “We’re kind of one degree of separation from almost everything that touches coastal life,” said Derek Aday, VIMS’ director and dean of the new Batten School. “We have the largest seagrass restoration project in the world. We have the longest running shark survey in the world. We have some of the best comprehensive flood modeling.”
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