Funding opportunities
The Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability advances knowledge, solutions, and impact through research and education to create a thriving, enduring future for humanity and the planet. Stanford faculty can apply for grants from the school to support discovery and curiosity-driven research, solutions-focused work, and external engagement.
Discovery
Our faculty and scholars are working to drive a deeper understanding of the most important questions related to Earth, climate, and society.
Solution areas
The Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability selected eight interconnected areas to focus our solutions-based research efforts over the next decade.
External engagement
We support Stanford faculty in establishing new relationships with external partners that can advance research into understanding the planet and the world we live in.
Sustainability Accelerator
The Sustainability Accelerator speeds the translation of Stanford research into scalable technology and policy solutions to address urgent global sustainability challenges.
Additional funding is available through our institutes.
Woods Institute for the Environment
The Woods Institute is working toward a future in which societies meet people’s needs for water, food, health and other vital services while sustaining the planet.
Precourt Institute for Energy
The Precourt Institute develops the creativity, collaboration, learning, and leadership to help realize the vision of sustainable, affordable, secure energy for all.
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Learn about some of our latest research and discoveries.
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Researchers have discovered a way to draw potable water from air almost anywhere using solar power and a gel-like material that lasts for eight months or more.
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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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A study on species competing to consume insect larvae provides insights into “priority effects”, or how the order and timing of different species shape biological communities.
