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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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Diego Gutierrez, Earth Systems '25, is betting on a humble legume to help rebuild the island's fragile food system – starting in backyard farms.
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Stanford students are getting a head start on careers with education and leadership programs offered by the Woods Institute for the Environment. We talk with Anushka Vijay, a senior who built both academic knowledge and practical experience through the Environmental and Policy Internship (EPIC) program.
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Data centers, extreme weather and a lack of federal climate regulation could put major strains on the U.S. power grid. Alice Hill, a former White House senior director for resilience policy, discusses what it will take to protect energy systems in a warming world and why investing before disaster strikes always beats recovering after.
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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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Emmanuel Codillo recreates geologic processes hundreds of miles beneath Earth’s surface to understand the inner workings of planets, shedding light on magma generation and volcanic activity, earthquakes, and critical mineral deposits.
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Stanford students are getting a head start on careers with education and leadership programs offered by the Woods Institute for the Environment. Izabella Smolnicka-Dos Santos integrated academic insight with real-world applications as a Forum for Undergraduate Environmental Leadership (FUEL) fellow focused on sustainability of agriculture and dairy in California.
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Team BioGangs designed a biodigester that uses invasive water hyacinth plants to generate biogas for low-income communities in Indonesia. In January, the group competed in the 2026 Global Sustainability Challenge’s regional finals for Pacific Asia and Australasia.
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A Stanford team has designed a dual-phase fuel cell to help people generate energy in the aftermath of a flood. On Feb. 13, the group will compete in the 2026 Global Sustainability Challenge’s regional finals for the Americas.
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A team of students from Nigeria, Peru, and India has designed a system that combines solar power and a biomass generator to help small-scale farmers efficiently dry crops such as cocoa and coffee. On Feb. 13-15, the group will compete in the 2026 Global Sustainability Challenge’s regional finals for Europe and Africa.
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For Earth Systems master’s student Tom Ramsay, an internship focused on assessing the natural capital of wetlands in Uruguay inspired new interests and career ambitions.
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Carlos Diaz-Marin and his colleagues are engineering inexpensive materials called hydrogels to collect water from the air, capture carbon from the atmosphere, and massively improve heating efficiency, among other sustainability challenges.
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Stanford Energy Postdoctoral Fellows Jackie Dowling and Chenfei Qu approach decarbonization from different but often overlapping angles. Together, they arrive at the same conclusion about what building clean, reliable energy systems will require.
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With support from a grant from the TomKat Center for Sustainable Energy, Earth system science master's student Mustafa Sultan is building an efficient HVAC system for the modern electricity grid.
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Tribal nations face persistent barriers in accessing state clean-energy programs. Alumna Kelsey Freeman’s new role with Stanford and the California Energy Commission aims to change that.
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Stanford students are getting a head start on careers with education and leadership programs offered by the Woods Institute for the Environment. We talk with Alice Heiman, a junior who bridged academic knowledge and real-world practice through the Mentoring Undergraduates in Interdisciplinary Research (MUIR) program.
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Adam Pellegrini engages in collaborations and field experiments across the globe to examine how ecosystems respond to global change and predict their resilience to major disturbances, such as wildfires, droughts, and disease outbreaks.
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Emilie Moore, BS ’26, wasn’t sure what to study until she took the course CEE 134A: Sustainable Design Practice. Now, as part of the Sustainable Architecture + Engineering (SA+E) program, she is developing the design, technical, visual communication, and digital modeling skills needed to address a range of architectural and engineering problems.
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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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Howard Qin, BS Math ’24, MS Sustainability Science & Practice ’26, hosted a fireside chat with Professor Steven Chu, Nobel physics laureate and former Secretary of Energy, as part of Stanford Climate Week. President Jonathan Levin gave opening remarks.
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Stanford students are getting a head start on careers with education and leadership programs offered by the Woods Institute for the Environment. We talk with Evan Ludington, a senior who who cultivated academic and practical expertise through the Environmental and Policy Internship (EPIC) program.
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Throughout roles in the White House, U.S. State Department, and academia, Maxine Burkett has focused on the relationship between environmental change and inequity, its impact on communities, and how law and policy can help build a better world for all.
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Stanford students are getting a head start on careers with education and leadership programs offered by the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment. In the first of a new student spotlight series, we talk with Aria Grossman, a junior who gained valuable research and on-the-job experience through the Mentoring Undergraduates in Interdisciplinary Research (MUIR) program.
