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The Doerr School research programs provide undergraduates with opportunities to work in any area of sustainability including Earth, environment, energy, oceans, and engineering.
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The Doerr School of Sustainability advances knowledge, solutions, and impact through research and education, creating a thriving, enduring future for humanity and the planet. From studying how electricity can be affordable and sustainable for all to designing cities where people and nature thrive, our researchers collaborate across Stanford and the world. The school includes seven departments, three interdisciplinary programs, two institutes, and a Sustainability Accelerator. Students work with local communities, engage in field learning, conduct cutting-edge research at Hopkins Marine Station near Monterey Bay, and lead hands-on projects at the O’Donohue Family Stanford Educational Farm on campus.
The Doerr School was born from a single, bold, ambitious idea: to channel Stanford's research, education, and innovation and to catalyze a global community toward one profound purpose–to serve life on Earth. Forever.
Scholars at the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability focus on discovery and applied research essential for understanding our world and ensuring a thriving future. Through dedicated funding opportunities and access to cutting-edge facilities, including Hopkins Marine Station on Monterey Bay and the O'Donohue Family Stanford Educational Farm, they pursue bold ideas and turn science into real-world impact.
To shape a more sustainable world, the Doerr School extends learning opportunities and collaboration to students, scholars, solvers, and scalers across the globe. Opportunities include Executive Education, the Sustainability Forum, the Global Sustainability Challenge, SURGE, K-12 outreach, and Art and Sustainability.
The school offers a diverse suite of undergraduate, coterminal, master’s, and doctoral degree programs designed to integrate physical sciences, engineering, social sciences, and policy. The Doerr School educates the next generation of leaders to solve our greatest sustainability challenges. Through degree programs spanning engineering, Earth system and planetary science, energy science, social sciences, geophysics, and oceans, students learn, research, and collaborate both on campus and at field sites around the world.
Through its various specialized departments and interdisciplinary programs—each detailed on their respective program pages—students gain the tools to advance knowledge, solutions, and impact to create a thriving, enduring future for humanity and the planet.
The Doerr School’s seven departments, three interdisciplinary programs, two institutes, and Sustainability Accelerator work in concert. Institutes spark innovative environmental and energy research across disciplines, and the Accelerator turns research into scalable technology and policy solutions for urgent global challenges.
Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment opens in a new tab: The mission of the Woods Institute is to advance global sustainability through new knowledge and practical, fair solutions to pressing environmental challenges. Woods serves as the university's hub for interdisciplinary research about the environment, bringing together Stanford faculty, researchers, and students from all seven schools, fostering research collaborations that can tackle challenges too complex for any one discipline to solve alone.
Precourt Institute for Energy opens in a new tab: The Precourt Institute stands for sustainable, affordable, secure energy for all. The Institute plays a key role in connecting the Doerr School with Stanford’s six other schools for interdisciplinary research and education, as well as for external engagement.
Sustainability Accelerator opens in a new tab: The Accelerator speeds the translation of research into scalable technology and policy solutions to address urgent global sustainability challenges.
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The Doerr School research programs provide undergraduates with opportunities to work in any area of sustainability including Earth, environment, energy, oceans, and engineering.
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Through a robust ecosystem of sustainability-focused internships, students gain hands-on experience across industry, government, nonprofits, research, and other mission-driven settings while applying their Stanford education to real-world sustainability challenges.
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The Sustainability Graduate Certificates provide a platform for current graduate students across the university to engage with and learn about sustainability topics outside of their primary course of study.
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At the oldest marine laboratory on the West Coast, undergraduate and graduate students can participate in courses and world-class research.
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The O’Donohue Family Stanford Educational Farm is Stanford’s living laboratory for hands-on learning in sustainable agriculture. On-farm research spaces also provide faculty and students with hands-on learning opportunities in agroecology, engineering, and more.
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