Supporting students

Graduate education is central to Stanford’s mission of training future leaders and problem solvers. Funding graduate students is also one of the fastest ways to advance scientific discovery, which most often emerges from the interactions of the students and their faculty advisors.

The Sustainability Matching Program will match the following gifts of endowment to support graduate students. Endowed fellowships exist in perpetuity and may be established in the donors’ own names or in the names of others whom they wish to honor.

Named, Endowed Graduate Fellowships ($1.5 million)

These fellowships are the vital mechanism by which Stanford can attract the most talented students to Stanford and support them once they are here.

A gift of $1.5 million will receive a $500,000 match to create a $2 million endowment that supports at least one graduate student each year.

Named, Endowed Master’s Fellowships ($375,000)

Stanford undergraduates may apply to stay for an extra year to earn a co-terminal master’s degree, but need-based financial aid does not extend to graduate study. Other students come to Stanford only for a master’s and are not eligible for PhD-focused funding. These fellowships help to equalize opportunity and widen the onramp to graduate education.

A gift of $375,000 will receive a $125,000 match to create a $500,000 endowment that supports at least one master’s student each year.

See how fellowship support has helped launch the high impact sustainability careers of these students and alumni.

A National Profile

Kate Brauman, PhD '10
“I’m in a position to take all of this amazing research that’s happening in academia, interpreting it, translating it, and getting it out in the world.”

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Understanding Earth’s Interior

Hong Yang, PhD '23
"These experiments really are the closest we can get to understanding what the Earth’s interior is like and how the high pressure affects materials.”

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