Recognition & Awards
Third-Party Evaluations of Sustainable Stanford
Gold Rating, Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education’s (AASHE’s) Sustainability Tracking, Assessment & Rating System (STARS)
Stanford earned a Gold rating from AASHE’s latest version (2.0) of its assessment and national rating system. Stanford’s score in 2016 increased six percentage points to 81%, which is the second highest score earned to date of the nearly 800 institutions that participate in STARS. Of those, a total of 96 institutions have achieved a Gold rating.
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#5 Ranking, “Cool Schools”
Stanford placed number five on Sierra magazine’s “Cool Schools” list, out of more than 200 institutions evaluated in 2016. The Cool Schools feature story is published in the September/October 2016 issue of Sierra magazine, the official publication of the Sierra Club.
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Green Honor Roll, Princeton Review
Stanford is on the Princeton Review’s Green Honor Roll, which lists universities that achieve the highest score—99—on the Princeton Review’s annual green rating.
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Stanford Energy System Innovations (SESI)
In its first year of operation SESI received global recognition for its excellence in design, innovation, and efficiency.
Governor’s Environmental and Economic Leadership Award, CalEPA
Stanford received the Governor’s Environmental and Economic Leadership Award (GEELA) for its climate action leadership with the SESI project. The GEELA is California’s highest environmental honor.
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2016 Global Best Projects Award, Engineering News-Record
SESI was one of 23 projects from 15 different countries and five continents to win 2016 Global Best Projects awards, which identify and honor the project teams behind outstanding design and construction efforts. SESI won the “Green Project” category. Stanford will share the award with Affiliated Engineers Inc., which served as the prime consultant and lead engineer for SESI.
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2015 Editors’ Choice and Best Energy/Industrial Project, Engineering News-Record
Stanford’s new Central Energy Facility received ENR’s Editor’s Choice and Best Energy/Industrial Project awards in the organization’s Best of the Best Projects awards program. Best of the Best awards are chosen annually by industry judge to identify and highlight the pinnacle of design and construction achievement among U.S. projects.
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2016 Environmental Project Award, Acterra: Action for a Healthy Planet
Acterra’s Business Environmental Awards is one of the Bay Area’s oldest and most prestigious environmental recognition programs. SESI earned the organization’s award for best Environmental Project.
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2016 Award of Merit, Excellence in Structural Engineering Awards, Structural Engineers Association of Northern California
SESI was one of 19 projects to receive recognition for its excellence in structural engineering. SESI earned the Award of Merit in the Infrastructure category.
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2016 Honor Award, American Institute of Architects, San Francisco Chapter
AIA San Francisco’s Design Awards program recognizes the outstanding achievements in architecture and design of Bay Area individuals and organizations. The Central Energy Facility received the Honor Award for combining function with beauty to achieve a sustainable and educational space.
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2015 Citation Award, American Institute of Architects, Portland Chapter
For more than 60 years, the Institute Honor Awards program has recognized achievements for a broad range of architectural activity to elevate the general quality of architecture practice, establish a standard of excellence against which all architects can measure performance, and inform the public of the breadth and value of architecture practice. Stanford received the Portland Chapter’s Citation Award in 2015.
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Operations
Gold Prize, Best Workplaces for Commuters’ Race to Excellence
Best Workplaces for Commuters spotlighted 29 employers nationwide during the organization’s Race to Excellence Virtual Awards Ceremony. The program is designed to encourage sustainable transportation innovation. The Race to Excellence awards recognize organizations that have taken exemplary steps to offer their employees viable alternatives to driving alone, resulting in reduced air pollution, traffic congestion, and fuel consumption.
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Platinum-Level Bicycle Friendly University, League of American Bicyclists
This is the organization’s highest designation.
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Sustainability Champion Award, California Higher Education Sustainability Conference
Joe Stagner, Executive Director of the Department of Sustainability and Energy Management, received the Sustainability Champion award at the 2016 California Higher Education Sustainability Conference for his vision and leadership of the Stanford Energy System Innovations project. This is the highest award given at the conference.
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Parking Matters Marketing and Communications Award, International Parking Institute
The award recognizes Stanford’s outstanding marketing, public relations, and communications efforts to educate campus members about safely navigating the university’s new roundabouts.
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Commercial Real Estate Digital Innovation Award, Realcomm
The Department of Sustainability and Energy Management received the Commercial Real Estate Digital Innovation, or Digie, Award for going above and beyond to positively impact the real estate management industry through the use of technology, automation, and innovation.
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Second Place, RecycleMania Tournament’s Gorilla Category
Stanford earned second place in the Gorilla category of the 2016 RecycleMania Tournament. More than 300 schools competed in this category to recycle the most pounds of material during the eight-week competition.
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Research & Academic
Campbell, Roebling, and IMA Medals
From the Geological Society of America and the International Mineralogical Association, Rodney Ewing, the Frank Stanton Professor in Nuclear Security and senior fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies.
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Elected to the National Academy of Engineering
Zhenan Bao, professor of chemical engineering, also named one of Nature magazine’s “10 People Who Mattered in 2015.”
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Sloan Research Fellowship
William Chueh, assistant professor of materials science and engineering and a center fellow at the Precourt Institute for Energy
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Cozzarelli Prize
From the National Academy of Sciences, Mark Jacobson, professor of civil & environmental engineering and senior fellow at the Precourt Institute for Energy and the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment
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BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award
Robert B. Wilson, the Adams Distinguished Professor of Management, Emeritus
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Donald Q. Kern Award
From the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, Kenneth Goodson, the Bosch Chairman of the Mechanical Engineering Department and Davies Family Provostial Professor
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Secretary of Defense IDEAS Award
George Shultz, senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and chair of the Precourt Institute for Energy Advisory Council
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Elected to the National Academy of Sciences
Hongjie Dai, J.G. Jackson-C.J. Wood Professor of Chemistry; Martin M. Fejer, professor of applied physics and co-director of the Stanford Photonics Research Center; Stephen R. Palumbi, the Jane and Marshall Steel Jr. Professor in Marine Sciences, director of Hopkins Marine Station, and senior fellow at the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment
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Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research Medal
Senior Earth System Science Fellow Rob Dunbar, awarded for Excellence in Antarctic Research
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2016 Peter Benchley Ocean Award
Senior Biology Fellow Barbara Block received the world’s preeminent honor for ocean conservation. Block was recognized for expanding our knowledge of highly migratory fish behavior, physiology, ecology, and interactions using satellite tagging and tracking techniques or tags on a global scale.
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