- About
- With 500+ faculty, staff and students and three campus locations, the Batten School & VIMS are equipped to tackle pressing challenges through research, education and advisory service.
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- Research & Advisory
- Purple marsh crabs are significantly disrupting carbon cycling in salt marshes along the East Coast of the U.S., according to a study led by Batten School & VIMS scientists.
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- Batten School
- The R. Todd Stravitz Scholars Program will provide full tuition support for students pursuing the new bachelor’s degree in coastal & marine sciences at the Batten School & VIMS.
  
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- Engage
- Popular, free camps enable rising third through eighth graders to learn about the Chesapeake Bay, coastal ecosystems and environmental stewardship.
  
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- News & Events
- National TRAP Program funds large-scale cleanup of discarded fishing gear, first round of subawards totaling more than $1.4M supports 11 projects focused on removing derelict fishing gear from coastal waters in nine U.S. states and Palau.
  
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- Giving
- As an expression of parental pride in their daughter, Taylor Spencer ‘83 and Martha Spencer recently established an undergraduate field research endowment at the Batten School & VIMS.
  
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Typography

Two typefaces carry our voice: Adelle, a humanist slab serif, brings warmth and authority to headlines and longer reading, and Brother 1816, a geometric sans, handles labels, captions, and data with clarity.

Download Font Families

The new font families can be downloaded and installed for those with access to Adobe products.

Use them together and resist introducing other fonts.

Examples of the Brother 1816 and Adelle font families.

Backup Fonts

In certain use cases, accessing the licensed typefaces of Brother 1816 and Adelle may not be possible. In these instances the backup fonts to be used are Arial and Calibri are acceptable alternatives for Brother and Rockwell can replace Adelle.