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The W.M. Keck Foundation Bridge Funding Initiative has awarded grants to six Stanford faculty and student teams, designed to support early-career scientists navigating reductions in federal research funding.
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Manu Prakash and French collaborator Marcel Babin are being honored for their research on microbial life trapped in sea ice, enhancing our understanding of modern polar ecosystems.
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Researchers presented new methods for tracking wildfire pollution and recovering bleached corals while former government officials and leaders from business and civil society called for urgent responses to food security, climate risks, and AI energy demand.
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Postdoctoral researcher Tao Sun combines machine learning with decades of utility data to predict future energy disruptions.
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Khalid Osman, an assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering at Stanford University, assesses public perceptions of water infrastructure, water conservation efforts, and the management of existing infrastructure systems.
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Tyrone Jue, director of the San Francisco Environment Department, leads the city’s climate efforts. He also serves on the Board of Directors of the Bay Area Air District, where he has helped advance nation-leading regional clean air and pollution-reduction policies.
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Stephanie Fischer, a PhD student in Earth system science at the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability and a PhD minor in the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity at Stanford University, researches how identity and culture can not only help people get involved in climate action but also buffer against harm.
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A PhD student in environmental social sciences at the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability, Quito Tsui researches how communities rebuild after conflict, how digital evidence is used in international law, and how the destruction of the environment is documented and witnessed.
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Cross-sector collaboration is key to reducing pollution and improving environmental and public health across populations, according to scholars, students, and professionals at the Center for Just Environmental Futures’ recent conference on campus.
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Once the site of experiments that helped confirm Einstein’s theory of gravity and search for dark matter, a decommissioned physics facility is now officially home to the Deep Lab, Stanford’s new hub for nanoscale research.
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The Precourt Institute for Energy at the Doerr School of Sustainability has launched a cross-campus initiative to fundamentally rethink how people and goods move across land, sea, and air.
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Ten years after launching the Environmental Communication Master of Arts in Earth systems, program director Thomas Hayden continues to mentor students to bridge the gap between scientific knowledge and public understanding.
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With support from the TomKat Center and the Stanford Sustainability Accelerator, scholars are working to scale a fast-acting fertilizer that captures carbon.
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A recent conference highlighted how environmental entrepreneurship is advancing through incremental change.
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Rob Jackson and Rosamond Naylor are among the Stanford faculty joining the scholarly society, which works to promote science for the public good.
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Yashee Mathur, PhD '26, is using machine learning and artificial intelligence to look underground for a carbon-free energy source that could be more abundant than natural gas.
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On April 29-30, the Doerr School of Sustainability hosted its inaugural Stanford Sustainability Forum – a global convening of scholars, solvers, and scalers centered on deploying scientific innovations to address our most pressing planetary challenges. Explore the agenda and watch videos from the livestream.
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The Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability’s annual competition recognizes images capturing natural beauty, researchers in action, and important topics in sustainability research.
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From July to September 2025, Energy Science & Engineering PhD student Pietro Bosoni participated in a hybrid internship at the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) in Monterey through the Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE), a workforce development program run by the U.S. Department of Energy.
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For their final project in a natural capital course, students Megan Chen and Zoe Rehnborg created a “zine” on the many values of public parks.
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The 2025-27 Dean’s Sustainability Leaders Postdoctoral Fellows are pursuing research on snakes, climate perceptions, and plant adaptations, bringing interdisciplinary scholarship and leadership to the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability.
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EARTHSYS 177: Environmental Storytelling teaches students to translate research into stories that reach beyond Stanford’s campus – starting with a farm 25 miles away in Fremont.
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An energy infrastructure veteran says federal retrenchment exposes a longstanding vulnerability, and sees research universities as an opportunity to close the gap.
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Diego Gutierrez, Earth Systems '25, is betting on a humble legume to help rebuild the island's fragile food system – starting in backyard farms.
