An Ecosystem All Their Own
An anonymous gift established the Institute for Integrative Conservation in 2020, to the tune of $19.3 million. The nascent program aimed to become the “nation’s premier cross-disciplinary institute” in its field. It was no small charge. W&M biologists, geologists and chemists joined with anthropologists, sociologists, entrepreneurs and librarians — to name a few — to give the next generation of conservation leaders a broad academic home with unrivaled educational experiences. This past spring, that next generation received their degrees.
