{"id":22,"date":"2015-07-16T23:42:06","date_gmt":"2015-07-16T23:42:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sustainability-year-in-review.com\/?page_id=22"},"modified":"2015-07-16T23:42:06","modified_gmt":"2015-07-16T23:42:06","slug":"sustainability-in-academics","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sustainability-year-in-review.stanford.edu\/2015\/sustainability-in-academics\/","title":{"rendered":"Sustainability in Academics"},"content":{"rendered":"
Stanford has long been a leader in cutting-edge research and innovative teaching on energy, the planet\u2019s resources, and environmental sustainability. Driven by a pioneering,\u00a0entrepreneurial\u00a0spirit and historic dedication to public service, Stanford is well positioned to seek solutions that create a more livable planet and educate generations of scientific and policy leaders equal to that challenge. Central to Stanford\u2019s approach to sustainability research and curricula is the idea that solutions to the world\u2019s environmental problems will require an interdisciplinary effort.<\/div>\n

Over the decades, the academic programs and initiatives in sustainability have achieved remarkable breadth, contributing to Stanford\u2019s international reputation for solving major environmental and energy-related challenges. Today, hundreds of laboratories, research centers, and student organizations at Stanford work to solve the most urgent challenges facing humanity, from food security and clean water to global warming and clean energy. Across campus, Stanford\u2019s schools incorporate sustainability into research and academic programs. All seven schools offer a wide range of environmental and sustainability-related courses and research opportunities, with over 750 sustainability-related graduate and undergraduate courses offered across campus. <\/p>\n

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Stanford Institutes<\/h2>\n

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Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment<\/a><\/h3>\n

As the university’s hub of interdisciplinary environment and sustainability research, the Stanford Woods Institute is the go-to place for Stanford faculty, researchers, and students from all seven schools to collaborate on environmental research. Their interdisciplinary work crosses sectors and disciplines, advancing solutions to the most critical, complex environmental and sustainability challenges. View the 2014-2015 Annual Report<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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Precourt Institute for Energy<\/a><\/h3>\n

The Precourt Institute for Energy serves as the hub of a broad and deep network of experts from various science, technology, behavioral, and policy disciplines who are working independently and collaboratively to solve the world’s most pressing energy problems. Learn more about energy research and education at Stanford in the 2014 Stanford Energy Book<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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Haas Center for Public Service<\/a><\/h3>\n

The Haas Center for Public Service engages students in public service across diverse pathways: direct service, community-engaged learning and research, activism, philanthropy, public policy, and social entrepreneurship. Students develop a public purpose while honing the knowledge, skills, and adaptive leadership practices to implement positive social change. Affiliate student groups include Students for a Sustainable Stanford, Engineers for a Sustainable World, and the Student Project on Hunger.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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Hasso Plattner Institute of Design<\/a><\/h3>\n

The d.school is a hub for innovators at Stanford. At this institute, students and faculty in engineering, medicine, business, law, the humanities, and sciences come together to solve the world\u2019s messy problems through creative solutions that focus on human values.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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Stanford Schools<\/h2>\n

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Graduate School of Business<\/a><\/h3>\n

Stanford Graduate School of Business empowers the world\u2019s brightest students to act \u2014 to take steps that will change the world. Its mission is to create ideas that deepen and advance our understanding of management and with those ideas to develop innovative, principled, and insightful leaders who change the world.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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Graduate School of Education<\/a><\/h3>\n

The Stanford Graduate School of Education seeks to continue as a world leader in groundbreaking, cross-disciplinary inquiries that shape educational practices, their conceptual underpinnings, and the professions that serve the enterprise. The school has taken steps to ensure environmental awareness is included, and has established a sustainability coordinator to reduce the school’s overall environmental impact through a “Green GSE” initiative, which includes reducing waste and eliminating plastic bottles.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences<\/a><\/h3>\n

The Stanford School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences develops the knowledge, talent, and leadership to understand the changing Earth and to help solve the enormous resource and environmental challenges facing the world.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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School of Engineering<\/a><\/h3>\n

The School of Engineering seeks solutions to important global problems and educates leaders who will make the world a better place by using the power of engineering principles, techniques, and systems. Through exposure to the liberal arts, business, medicine, and other disciplines, engineers will possess not only deep technical excellence, but creativity, cultural awareness, and entrepreneurial skills.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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School of Humanities and Sciences<\/a><\/h3>\n

School of Humanities and Sciences is Stanford\u2019s largest school, awarding 75% of undergraduate degrees and nearly 40% of doctorates. With an emphasis on interdisciplinary research, H&S addresses the most urgent challenges facing society today\u2014problems too complex to be tackled by any single discipline.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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School of Law<\/a><\/h3>\n

Excellence, inspiration, and innovation define Stanford Law. The school remains dedicated to upholding the highest standards of excellence in legal scholarship; to equipping lawyers\u2014diligently, imaginatively, honorably\u2014to serve clients and their communities; to leading the law profession; and to collaborating while working to address the challenges of the United States and the world.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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School of Medicine<\/a><\/h3>\n

Stanford Medicine’s unrivaled atmosphere of breakthrough thinking and interdisciplinary collaboration has fueled a long history of clinical and research achievements. As an academic medical center with close ties to Stanford University and Silicon Valley, Stanford Medicine merges research with healthcare expertise to drive creative thinking and innovation.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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History<\/h2>\n

\"glacier Stanford\u2019s academic focus on the Earth and its resources dates back to the founding of the university in 1891. The first professor hired\u2014John Casper Branner\u2014and the first recipient of a Stanford doctorate were both geologists. In the early 20th century, Stanford built on that foundation, pursuing use-inspired research in areas such as energy and natural resources, and serving as a pioneer in the scientific study of groundwater. Also among the first cohort of faculty was Charles David Marx, the first chairman (1912-15) of the California State Water Commission, who helped frame the water laws of this state. Over the years, innovative research has continued, with a focus on energy resources, biological conservation, and global environmental change.<\/p>\n

In the 1990s, a group of visionary faculty members began to recognize that addressing key global sustainability challenges, such as climate change and universal access to clean energy, water, and food for a growing population, would require the collaboration of experts from many disciplines. At the heart of this evolution was, and remains, the belief that sustainability challenges cannot be addressed by individual disciplines working alone, but must draw on every discipline and field across campus and beyond. During this period, the interdisciplinary Earth Systems bachelor’s of science and coterminal master\u2019s programs were launched within the School of Earth, Energy, & Environmental Sciences. The Center for Environmental Science and Policy was also created within the Freeman Spogli Institute of International Studies, bringing together faculty from a range of disciplines to focus on challenges at the interface of environment and development. <\/p>\n

\"poster As the Stanford community grew in size and experience with interdisciplinary research, faculty called for graduate programs for interdisciplinary students. In 2001, the Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources (E-IPER) was founded within the School of Earth, Energy, & Environmental Sciences. The program was proposed by faculty from across the university and established on their behalf. Likewise, cross-cutting research efforts continued to flourish. In 2002 the Global Climate and Energy Project (GCEP), an industry partnership that supports innovative research on game-changing energy technologies, was formed. To date, GCEP has funded 131 research programs at Stanford and 43 other institutions in 11 countries. GCEP has had a transformative effect across campus, unleashing long-term faculty interest in energy and providing new opportunities for students in the energy field.<\/p>\n

In 2003, Stanford President John Hennessy worked with an ad hoc Provost\u2019s Committee on the Environment to launch the campus-wide Initiative on the Environment and Sustainability. The following year he launched the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment to serve as the initiative\u2019s central organizing force. Envisioned as a hub for Stanford\u2019s environmental researchers, the institute brings together experts from across the university\u2019s seven schools to pursue interdisciplinary, solutions-oriented research addressing the planet\u2019s most complex environmental challenges while preparing the next generation of environmental leaders. Centers and programs within the Stanford Woods Institute include the Center for Ocean Solutions, the Center on Food Security and the Environment (joint with the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies), the Global Freshwater Initiative, the Natural Capital Project, the Osa and Golfito Initiative (INOGO), the Program on Water, Health and Development, and Water in the West (joint with the Bill Lane Center for the American West). <\/p>\n

\"examining In 2009, President Hennessy announced the creation of the Precourt Institute for Energy and the TomKat Center for Sustainable Energy. In 2011, the Stanford Law School and the Graduate School of Business jointly established the Steyer-Taylor Center for Energy Policy and Finance. Today, the Precourt Institute for Energy serves as Stanford\u2019s campus-wide hub to develop a suite of energy technologies and policies, to accelerate the transformation of our energy system, and to educate the next generation to be energy literate. The institute serves more than a dozen energy research centers and programs, including the TomKat Center, the Steyer-Taylor Center, and the Precourt Energy Efficiency Center, which predated the institute. In addition, two new interdisciplinary departments\u2014Earth System Science and Energy Resources Engineering\u2014were created in the School of Earth, Energy and Environmental Science, complementing the efforts of many disciplinary departments across the university.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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