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Welcome to the Summer 2023 newsletter for alumni and friends of the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability. We’re celebrating the successful completion of the school’s first academic year and reflecting on many meaningful milestones, including awarding our first degrees to 424 new graduates.
 
 
 
School Highlights
 
 
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A bagpipe procession opened the school's first commencement, where Dean Majumdar encouraged the inaugural class of graduates to use their knowledge, leadership, and commitment to make a positive impact on the world.
 
 
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SDSS and the Stanford Graduate School of Business jointly created a program that enables students to establish organizations and businesses that can help take sustainability solutions to scale.
 
 
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Twenty-two global leaders bring a breadth and depth of experience from industry, academia, government, and the nonprofit sector.
 
 
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The renowned architectural firm and design practice Studio Gang has been chosen to design the school’s new Sustainability Commons.
 
 
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Yi Cui was named inaugural faculty director of this “launch pad” for co-developing potentially scalable sustainability technology and policy solutions with external partners worldwide.
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Get Involved

 Recognize your peers! Please submit your nominations for the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability Alumni Awards by Friday, July 14.

Add your voice to the Climate Action Plan! The Stanford Office of Sustainability aims to release the new plan next year, and we hope you'll participate: Stakeholder Interest Form. 
 
 
Events
Keep an eye out for event invitations from the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability, beginning with our annual events. Save the dates!
  • Reunion Homecoming SDSS Reception: Friday, October 20, 2023, Stanford
  • Reception at the SEG/AAPG IMAGE Conference: Tuesday, August 29, 2023, Houston, TX
 
 
 
 
Student Spotlight
 
Bringing computer science to sustainability
 Eric Bear CS ’23, SUST ’23, who earned a coterminal Masters in Sustainability Science and Practice as a member of the school’s first graduating class, deeply values being part of the diverse and interdisciplinary students in the SUST program who share a commitment to planetary resilience.
 
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On The Record
 
 
"It's like a torrential river eating away at the riverbanks and widening in the process."
—Assistant Professor Jenny Suckale, in Daily Kos

“It’s big – it’ll be six times the size of Yosemite. The question is, how do you monitor that big an area… and relate climate change to what is going to happen in the future?”
—Professor Stephen Palumbi, in The Guardian

“I found it startling that concentrations that were enough to trigger a public outcry when they were detected outside are concentrations that we’ve found repeatedly inside, just from stoves in people’s homes.”
—Earth System Science PhD candidate, Yannai Kashtan ’20, in The New York Times
 
 
 
 
Research News
 
 
 
 
 
 
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