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Practitioners and researchers identified benefits and challenges of using AI to support sustainability, resilience, and social responsibility.
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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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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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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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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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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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Join an event on April 6 to hear how artists and scientists are reimagining sustainable food systems.
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The Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability has awarded Discovery Grants totaling more than $1.5 million to 11 projects. The Discovery Grant program supports creative research aimed at advancing understanding of our planet, life and society, and engineered systems.
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Lobell, an expert in agricultural ecology, will serve a three-year term as chair of the Department of Earth System Science starting Sept 1.
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From July to September 2025, fourth-year Civil and Environmental Engineering PhD student Mateus Gheorghe de Castro Ribeiro 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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Dozens of teams from across North and South America competed at Stanford to become finalists in the inaugural Global Sustainability Challenge. Four Stanford teams are headed to the final event in Munich in April.
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The 2026 Stanford Global and Planetary Health Research Convening brought scholars together to discuss solutions and strategies to address health challenges and build resilience.
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Grants support research on global sustainability challenges, with a focus on how U.S. policy shifts affect environmental and human outcomes. Funded projects examine climate and clean-energy policy impacts on communities, ecosystems, and public trust, generating insights to build more resilient and equitable environmental outcomes.
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Part of the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability, the center aims to ensure that sustainability efforts enhance human dignity and ecological resilience.
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Budgets are tight, political winds have shifted, and competition is fierce. But environment and sustainability sector employment experts say there's reason for optimism—if you know where to look, and how to prepare.
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At the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability, PhD students across disciplines build community through a cohort program for incoming students.
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NatCap celebrates 20 years of valuing nature in decisions with a new name and tiered membership structure.
