Funding opportunities
The Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability draws on a deep understanding of Earth, climate, and society to create knowledge and scalable solutions for our world’s most significant and complex problems. 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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With support from the TomKat Center, two Stanford alumni are working to transform biowaste such as palm fibers into oil feedstocks for advanced fuels.
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New research finds damage to rice crops has accelerated in recent decades due to rainstorms that increasingly submerge young plants for a week or more. Adoption of flood-resistant rice varieties in vulnerable regions could help avert future losses.
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Aerospace engineer Debbie Senesky and startup CEO Joseph Kao discuss innovation and the importance of working across disciplines in this episode of the Stanford Ecopreneurship podcast.
