Stanford environmental program gets $10 million gift

A graduate environmental program at Stanford University has received a $10 million gift and been renamed after the donors, the university announced this week.

Stanford alum Dan Emmett and his wife, Rae, donated the money to the newly christened Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources. The program allows graduate students to pick and choose from traditional disciplines to create their own specialized fields of study with an eye toward solving environmental problems.

There are about 30 doctoral students in the program and a "growing number" of students pursuing master's degrees, according to the university.