Featured Woods Opportunities
Sponsor: Stanford Woods Institute
Eligibility: Academic Council
Deadline: October 14, 2023
The new Stanford Oceans Department and the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment are pleased to announce a new funding opportunity “Big Ideas for Oceans”. "Big Ideas for Oceans" offers faculty grants up to $150,000 over two years.
Sponsor: Stanford Woods Institute
Eligibility: Academic Council
Deadline: January 25, 2024
The Stanford Woods Institute EVP program provides seed grants from $10,000 to $200,000, for up to two years, for interdisciplinary research projects that seek to identify solutions to pressing problems of the environment and sustainability. Research projects are evaluated for their intellectual merit, potential to solve critical problems, the integration of the disciplinary strengths of the team and the project’s potential to secure additional funding.
Sponsor: Stanford Woods Institute
Eligibility: Academic Council
Deadline: January 25, 2024
The Realizing Environmental Innovation Program (REIP) is intended to provide next stage funding to PIs to move existing interdisciplinary environmental research projects toward actual solutions implemented by public stakeholders and private market actors. To be considered, projects should demonstrate both significant progress in identifying solutions and strong potential by private market or public end users to adopt the discoveries and meaningfully address environmental problems.
Sponsor: Stanford Woods Institute
Eligibility: Academic Council
Deadline: January 5, 2024
This newly funded program will provide seed grants from $50,000 up to $200,000 over two years for research projects that seek solutions to pressing problems in human and planetary health.
Sponsor: Stanford Woods Institute
Eligibility: Students - Undergrad
Deadline: February 7, 2024
MUIR provides stipends to full- and part-time Stanford undergraduate students to conduct interdisciplinary environmental research during the summer. Students work under the mentorship of a faculty member on faculty research projects. Faculty are welcome to apply for a MUIR grant on behalf of undergraduates at all levels and from all departments. Funding priority goes to Stanford Woods Institute fellows, affiliated faculty and lecturers. Students wishing to initiate a project will need to...
Sponsor: Stanford Woods Institute
Eligibility: Students - Grad, Students - Undergrad
Deadline: December 2, 2023
In honor of environmental leader Mel Lane, the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment invites groups of Stanford undergraduate and/or graduate students to submit proposals for student-driven-and-managed environmental projects that make a measurable impact on an issue through action or applied academic research. Preference is given to projects that focus on environmental sustainability within one of the following topic areas: climate, ecosystem services and conservation, environmental...
Sponsor: Stanford Woods Institute
Eligibility: Students - Grad
Deadline: April 16, 2024
The Stanford Interdisciplinary Graduate Fellowship (SIGF) Program is a competitive university-wide program that awards three-year fellowships to outstanding doctoral students engaged in interdisciplinary research. The program, sponsored by the Vice Provost for Graduate Education, is administered jointly by the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment and the Precourt Institute for Energy. Since 2008, one hundred and seventeen students have received the award. SIGF fellowships allow Stanford...
