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The Sustainability Accelerator’s new postdoctoral fellowship program kicks off fall quarter with four entrepreneurial fellows who will pursue individual research on greenhouse gas removal.
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Researchers at Stanford Engineering have developed a new thermochemical reactor that can generate the immense heat needed for industrial processes using electricity instead of fossil fuels.
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The Sustainability Accelerator in the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability will support work in new areas including energy, climate adaptation, industry, and more.
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The Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability will establish new research initiatives under topics including climate, water, energy, food, nature, and cities.
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A message from school leadership announcing solutions-oriented and scale-focused research funding opportunities to address pressing sustainability challenges.
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What happens when Stanford tackles sustainability.
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Wildfire risk is an ever-present concern in the American West. A legal scholar and wildfire policy expert talks about how a recent Sustainability Accelerator grant helped a multidisciplinary team advance policy change in California.
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The center’s move from the Precourt Institute for Energy will enable TomKat-funded student projects to compete for space and funding in the Accelerator, while the Accelerator will benefit from TomKat’s experience empowering students, researchers, and entrepreneurs to develop and launch solutions to energy and sustainability problems.
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In much of California, groundwater levels are in bad shape. Too much water going out, not enough coming in has led to a steady decline in water tables. State and local water agencies are looking for new ways to recharge groundwater stores.
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Charlotte Pera, a veteran of major climate-focused organizations, returns to Stanford in July to co-lead the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability’s Accelerator.
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Interdisciplinary team has developed a groundbreaking optical sensor that measures DNA and other key molecules in seawater using light, potentially revolutionizing the study of biodiversity in the enigmatic depths below the ocean’s surface.
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The first group of scholars supported under the new Sustainability Accelerator Fellowship program will focus on the challenge of removing billions of tons of greenhouse gases annually from Earth’s atmosphere by the middle of this century.
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A new report shares key accomplishments from the inaugural year of Stanford Ecopreneurship programs, a collaboration between the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability and Stanford Graduate School of Business.
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A pair of Stanford students set out 16 years ago to provide solar lanterns as a cleaner, safer alternative to kerosene lamps. One of them, Nedjip Tozun, spoke at a recent Sustainability Accelerator event about bringing their idea from a class project to a reality in millions of homes in underresourced regions.
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Sixteen research teams from across Stanford University will explore innovative strategies for gigaton atmospheric greenhouse gas removal – the school’s first ‘Flagship Destination’ research focus.
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The massive reactors churning industrial chemicals today are fired by fossil fuels. A new approach would use electromagnetic induction to heat with clean, renewable electricity.
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Less than a year after Stanford University launched a new school focused on sustainability, the Stanford Graduate School of Business announced a major move in the space in May: The unveiling of the Stanford Ecopreneurship Program.
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In April, Yi Cui was named the Director of the Doerr School’s Sustainability Accelerator. He currently serves as the Director of the Precourt Institute for Energy and is a professor of materials science & engineering and energy science & engineering whose work primarily concerns batteries.
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Cui has served as director of the Precourt Institute for Energy since 2020 – a role he will continue until a new director is named.
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The Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability will focus on greenhouse gas removal from the atmosphere as the first of what will be several Flagship Destinations.
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The Sustainability Accelerator drives solutions generated through collaborations and scales them through partners locally and globally to ensure they benefit all people.
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The Transition leadership team of the New School has issued a call for proposals to Stanford faculty for Accelerator Projects in Sustainability.
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Stanford’s Long-Range Vision seeks to increase and accelerate both the creation of new knowledge through foundational research and the uptake of that knowledge as solutions for urgent problems in climate, learning, health and society.
