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As a recipient of a TomKat Graduate Fellowship for Translational Research, PhD student Lauren Gillespie develops tools for estimating biodiversity in ecosystems.
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Supported by an early grant from the TomKat Center for Sustainable Energy, David Mackanic, PhD ’20, co-founded Anthro Energy, a startup that innovates safer, longer-lasting, more powerful batteries.
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As a Stanford Energy Postdoctoral Fellow, Lisa Rennels applies her photographer’s eye to the economic costs of climate change.
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As the Stanford-based Natural Capital Project prepares to roll out new tools and features in the coming months, software team lead Doug Denu shares about his background, role, and what’s next for InVEST.
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Supported by a grant from the TomKat Center for Sustainable Energy, hydrogen storage startup Verne wants to replace diesel fuel with hydrogen power.
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Brooke Weigel studies ecosystem interactions that are invisible to the naked eye. Scientists in her lab examine kelp’s microscopic forms, their role in carbon sequestration, and how climate change will impact the future of these vast underwater forests.
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Driven by a collaborative community of scholars, Wallenberg Postdoctoral Fellow Jean-Baptiste Jouffray studies marine social-ecological systems with an interdisciplinary lens.
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Xavier Basurto explores how small-scale fisheries and other communities come to value the future and their environment ahead of short-term personal gain.
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Lauren Dunford, ’09, MBA ’18, is using real-time data to streamline manufacturing.
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For geophysicist Jenny Suckale, helping underserved communities navigate the extremes of climate change requires a new perspective on both.
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Ermakov combines planetary science and exploration to learn new – and often surprising – details about the structure and evolution of planetary bodies.
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From June to September 2024, Benedict Chen, E-IPER MBA-MS ’25, worked at Mitra Chem through the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability Summer Internship Program. Mitra Chem is a startup based in Mountain View that innovates in and develops iron-based cathode materials for lithium-ion batteries.
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A Stanford alumna’s career gave her an inside look at the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize and the White House. Today, she guides the scientific agenda for the world’s largest association of Earth and space scientists.
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Deemed both a force of nature and a force for nature, the Stanford energy champion has propelled thousands of students and expanded access to energy education worldwide.
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Stanford Impact Founder Ecopreneurship Fellow Raj Tilwa, MBA ’24 is electrifying personal heating systems for homes and businesses.
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Sarah Johnson, ’16, MBA ’22, sees promise in fixing broken digital devices.
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Assistant Professor of chemical engineering and of civil and environmental engineering William Tarpeh brings his love of problem-solving to his research.
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Steve Davis has taken an unconventional path from philosophy to Earth system science and research showing how decisions related to food, energy, and trade affect climate outcomes.
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When the school was founded in September 2022, it included a commitment to hire as many as 60 new faculty in critical areas of research. This fall, the school welcomed eight new faculty members who research behavioral science, decision-making, oceans, climate science, materials science, and more.
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Solomon Hsiang combines data science, natural science, and social science to answer key policy questions about climate change and other fundamentally global problems.
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Hélène Benveniste investigates how climate change is reshaping global migration patterns, what the future holds, and how countries can work together for solutions.
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A Stanford fraternity is restoring native California coastal habitats and redefining what it means to be part of Greek life, one plant at a time.
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Madalina Vlasceanu studies the cognitive, behavioral, and societal barriers to addressing climate change – and how to overcome them.
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Colin Ophus is an expert in using electron microscopy to understand the atomic structure of promising new materials. He uses that expertise to explore ways to produce energy with less pollution and waste.
