William & Mary is the recipient of a nearly $50,000 grant from the Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield Foundation to support the Healthy Beginnings project. The university will be collaborating with Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU), which also received funding on the project.
2015 Stories
William & Mary Receives Leadership Gift to Fund the Creation of the Boehly Center for Excellence in Finance
William & Mary will continue to strengthen efforts supporting the health and wellbeing of students across campus with a $1.5 million gift for the new Integrative Wellness Center.
On the heels of the launch of For the Bold: The Campaign for William & Mary, the university is announcing that three of its most senior leaders - the chancellor, rector and president - have each made gifts. The contributions from Becky and Robert M. Gates ’65, L.H.D. ’98, Elaine and Todd Stottlemyer ’85 and Helen and Taylor Reveley will benefit scholarships and professorships.
William & Mary is the smallest public university in the nation to ever embark on a campaign of this magnitude.
William & Mary's business and law schools have each received $22-million to fund student scholarships, teaching awards, and a conference that brings leaders in law and business to campus.
Parents of a William & Mary student are supporting scholarships with a $1 million commitment to help ensure that students with exceptional ability have the means to attend the university. The commitment comes from Jody Forsyth and Wilma Quan-Forsyth of Calgary, Canada, parents of Samantha ’15 who is currently studying at the William & Mary Law School.
William & Mary's Swem Library has received a nearly $2 million commitment from the late Frances Lightfoot Robb ’48 - the largest single gift in its history - to meet the most pressing needs of the library.
William & Mary will continue to build on its legacy as the first university in the U.S. to teach and collect art, thanks to a $2.5 million commitment from Joe and Sharon Muscarelle to expand the Muscarelle Museum of Art.
To help kick off Family Weekend and the Tribe's first home football game of the season, Sue ’76 and John ’75 Gerdelman have made a $4 million commitment to William & Mary, a large portion of which will support Tribe Athletics.
Support for education: The School of Education received a $5.6 million commitment to support the study of teaching, teacher preparation and special education.
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded William & Mary a $2.6-million grant
Generous alumni bring enhanced Zable Stadium closer to fruition
A record-breaking fundraising year in 2015: William & Mary Law School's alumni, students, and friends once again supported the School in record-breaking numbers during the fiscal year that ended June 30, 2015.
Renovated largely through the support of private donors, Swem's new media center boasts a media lab, two classrooms with display technologies, a screening room, collaboration lab and eight studios.
William & Mary raised a record-breaking $105.8 million in a single fiscal year and now has the highest percentage of undergraduate alumni from a top-ranked public university giving back to their alma mater - 27.1 percent or more than 16,800 alumni.
Honoring Tribe fans: The Kraemers created the endowment to honor two former William & Mary football players who have been among the most loyal Tribe fans over the last several decades - Richard E. Korns ’68 and Michael G. Weaver ’66, M.Ed. ’70.
A significant portion of this commitment will support scholarships for student-athletes participating in the Women's Basketball program - it will be the largest gift ever given to Women's Basketball from a single donor.
William & Mary's Class of 1965 broke the record for the largest 50th reunion gift in the university's history.
The Raymond A. Mason School of Business at William & Mary is bolstering its Master of Accounting and M.B.A. programs with the support of a $1 million commitment from John Rathbone, former chief financial officer of Norfolk Southern Corporation.
Committee on Competitive Excellence provides roadmap for a championship experience for every student-athlete and every fan.
Camp Launch is a program for gifted children from families with limited resources.
William & Mary has logged an unusual "clean sweep" in a prestigious national scholarship program, with all four of the university's nominees winning Goldwater Scholarships.