Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, has announced a pair of gifts—each from an anonymous donor—totaling $13.1 million to help establish the interdisciplinary Institute for Global Security (IGS) and endow the school’s Institute of Arctic Studies (IAS).

A gift of $8.1 million will help fund the future IGS at Dartmouth’s John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding and elevate the school’s research in international affairs, introduce a program of visiting scholars and residencies for policy makers, journalists, and leaders of nongovernmental organizations with a wide range of geographic and topical expertise, and provide undergraduates with more research and experiential learning opportunities. An additional gift of $5 million will help endow the IAS, leveraging its long history of collaborating with Indigenous and non-Indigenous communities in the Arctic, to expand research around climate change and ecosystem transformation, competition for natural resources, and international tensions in the Far North.

“These gifts are a prime opportunity for Dartmouth to enhance what it does well: convene expert researchers and policy makers from around the world on the very timely issues of international peace, global security, and climate change, and strengthen partnerships with Indigenous Peoples,” said Dickey Center director Victoria K. Holt.

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