Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability

The Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability is a school at Stanford University focusing on climate change and sustainability. The school also researches many domains of fossil fuel extraction and development.[1] It opened on September 1, 2022,[2] as Stanford's first new school since the School of Humanities and Sciences in 1948. It is considered one of the largest climate change–related schools in the United States.[3]

Arun Majumdar is the school's inaugural dean. Initially, the school will have 90 faculty members. It has plans to add 60 more faculty members over 10 years and construct two new buildings adjacent to the existing Green Earth Sciences and Jerry Yang and Akiko Yamazaki Environment and Energy buildings. It incorporated the academic departments and interdisciplinary programs of the School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences as well as the Woods Institute for the Environment and the Precourt Institute for Energy. The school also includes the Hopkins Marine Station and a startup accelerator.[3][4] Despite being Stanford's newest school, it incorporates the university's oldest academic department, geology.

  1. ^ "Industrial Affiliates Programs | Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability". sustainability.stanford.edu. Retrieved 2023-09-13.
  2. ^ Adams, Amy (May 4, 2022). "Arun Majumdar named inaugural dean of the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability" (Press release). Stanford University. Retrieved May 4, 2022.
  3. ^ a b Gelles, David (May 4, 2022). "John Doerr Gives Stanford $1.1 Billion for Climate School". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved May 4, 2022.
  4. ^ Adams, Amy; Cole, Anneke (May 4, 2022). "Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability, university's first new school in 70 years, will accelerate solutions to global climate crisis" (Press release). Stanford University. Retrieved May 4, 2022.