The student experience
Meet our students
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Intent on having a widespread impact, Evelyn Pung focuses on work that simultaneously improves the health of people and the environment.
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For Juan Martín Cevallos López, what started as a sense of wonder for the ocean has flourished into a passion for oceanography and research that bridges disciplines.
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Ahmad Koya, ’24, aims to help improve water systems around the world. After earning his degree in environmental engineering in June, he will spend the summer studying in Jordan and working in Singapore before completing his coterminal degree in the same field.
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PhD student Eeshan Chaturvedi is driven to create meaningful change worldwide. He’s advancing sustainability through both his legal research and global leadership.
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E-IPER masters student and Knight-Hennessy scholar Kelsey Freeman shares how a trip to the extreme south of Chile brought new insights on her work with Indigenous communities.
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Tanvi Dutta Gupta, BS Biology ’23, MS Earth Systems ’24, envisions a more sustainable world by connecting environmental justice, storytelling, and the arts.
Course close ups
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Through programs offered by the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability, undergraduate students from Stanford and institutions across the U.S. worked on projects that tackled pressing environmental challenges and advanced fundamental knowledge about our planet. Here’s an inside look at their experiences.
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In two courses during winter and spring quarters, student groups developed policy reports with the goal of informing government decisions about how to incorporate fisheries and aquaculture into Indonesia’s national development strategy.
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The culminating project for the design-build seminar CEE32H: Responsive Structures is a 23-foot-high outdoor contemplation space installed in front of the Anderson Collection.
Members of the Sustainability Student Advisory Council. (Image credit: Cayden Gu/Ethography)
Research, internships & professional development
We offer programs to support success in both your personal and professional life.
Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment
Education and leadership programs focus on skills, knowledge, and networks to move ideas into action and support informed decision-making.
Learn more about Stanford Woods InstitutePrecourt Institute for Energy
Student offerings include energy courses, experiential learning opportunities, and events, in addition to mentoring and advising.
Learn more about Precourt InstituteUndergraduate research
Stanford undergraduates from any area of study who want to learn more about environmental science and our planet can work on research with a faculty member in the lab or in the field.
Learn more about undergraduate research opportunitiesEcopreneurship
Building on Stanford’s strengths in both sustainability and entrepreneurship, Stanford Ecopreneurship programs take aspiring sustainability entrepreneurs (or “ecopreneurs”) from idea to launch.
Learn moreProfessional development
No matter what discipline you are in or career goals you have, we want to prepare our undergraduate and graduate students for the future.
Learn moreDiscover labs and facilities
Cutting-edge tools to understand our planet.
Explore resources available to studentsExplore our campus
Located 35 miles south of San Francisco and 20 miles north of San Jose on the ancestral land of the Muwekma Ohlone Tribe, Stanford University’s 8,180-acre campus sits at the heart of Silicon Valley and the San Francisco Peninsula.
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Hopkins Marine Station
Visit our educational farm
Beyond campus
Our scholars and students conduct research or engage in field learning on all seven continents and oceans. Opportunities for hands-on learning and research experience outside the classroom range from two-day field courses to a quarter-long field course in social and biophysical systems in Hawaii.
Sustainability Commons
The people and programs in the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability will be brought together in a new Sustainability Commons, located on the west side of campus. The Commons will be anchored by two new flagship buildings that will follow Stanford’s history of creating sustainable, LEED Platinum-certified buildings. The Commons will also include the existing Green Earth Sciences Research Building and the Jerry Yang and Akiko Yamazaki Environment and Energy Building (Y2E2). A promenade will connect the academic buildings, rooftop garden, and multiple outdoor gathering spaces.
Sustainable living at Stanford
Sustainability is a core value and way of life at Stanford and the university’s Residential & Dining Enterprises.
Learn about Stanford’s commitment to being a living lab for sustainability solutions
Explore Energy HouseRoble Living Laboratory for Sustainability at Stanford