BRUNSWICK, Maine (AP) - Officials of Bowdoin College say a $10 million gift from a California couple will allow the college to expand programs for students who want to study oceans and the environment.
The college says Bowdoin parents Philip Schiller and Kim Gassett-Schiller of Half Moon Bay, California, are making the gift. The money will help the college grow its Coastal Studies Center on Harpswell Sound in Harpswell.
The college says in a statement that the gift will help “transform” the Coastal Studies Center into a facility where students, Bowdoin faculty and faculty from other institutions can study subjects such as the impact of climate change on marine life.
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Philip Schiller is a senior vice president of worldwide marketing at Apple. Kim Gassett-Schiller is a trustee at the Rhode Island School of Design.
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