Structure announced for new school focused on climate and sustainability

When Stanford’s new school focused on climate and sustainability begins operating in fall 2022, it will include a set of transitional academic divisions that will evolve into multiple departments as the school grows; cross-cutting themes organized within institutes to draw on the expertise of the entire university; and an accelerator to drive new technology and policy solutions. Stanford President Marc Tessier-Lavigne selected this blueprint after he and Provost Persis Drell reviewed, and slightly modified, options provided in a report (SUNetID required) from the faculty Blueprint Advisory Committee (BAC) that has been meeting since last fall to develop options and recommendations for the structure of the new school.

The school will include cross-cutting themes housed within Stanford's Woods Institute for the Environment and the Precourt Institutes for Energy, and within a new Sustainable Societies initiative that will include possible themes such as Environmental Justice, Sustainable Urban Development and Environmental Communications. The institutes and their themes will be administered within the school, but their faculty affiliates and student communities will span the university and intersect with external policymakers, thought leaders and industry partners.

"It is fabulous to see that the structure of the new school will embrace and expand the roles and structures of the Woods Institute for the Environment, the Precourt Institute for Energy, the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, the Hopkins Marine Station, and the School of Earth, Energy, and Environmental Sciences," noted Chris Field, Perry L. McCarty Director of the Woods Institute. "With increased resources and a growing faculty, the new school will be packed with transformative potential that the world so desperately needs."

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