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As a Stanford University research institute, the Precourt Energy Efficiency Center draws upon intellectual resources from the entire university. At the core of the Precourt Center is an increasing number of faculty-led research teams including graduate and undergraduate students and post-doctoral fellows. Research teams include researchers and analysts from across the university, bringing expertise from many different disciplines.

The mission of the Precourt Center is to promote energy efficient technologies, systems, and practices, emphasizing economically attractive deployment. PEEC works to understand and overcome market, policy, technology, and human behavioral barriers to economically efficient reductions of energy use and to inform public and private policymaking. Energy Efficiency is vital for the U.S. and world economy, for environmental protection, and for energy security.

Sustainable Stanford is a university-wide effort to reduce our environmental impact, preserve resources and show sustainability in action. We're determined to lead in researching, teaching and practicing environmental sustainability. Our vision: create a healthier environment now and richer possibilities for generations to come.

The Stanford Student Green Fund provides grants for innovative student-driven projects designed to create a more sustainable campus. A total of $30,000 per academic year is available to fund projects.

The Ward W. and Priscilla B. Woods Institute for the Environment at Stanford University harnesses the expertise and imagination of leading academics and decision-makers to create practical solutions for people and the planet. In the same spirit that inspired Stanford's role in Silicon Valley's high-tech revolution, the Woods Institute is pioneering innovative approaches to meet the environmental challenges of the 21st century - from climate change to sustainable food supplies to ocean conservation.

In honor of environmental leader Mel Lane, the Woods Institute has established the Mel Lane Student Program Grants, providing funding to Stanford students for group projects on the environment. To be considered, proposals must offer broad university relevance and involvement.

The Office of Community Engagement seeks to identify, support, and promote community based research efforts and service learning opportunities among faculty and graduate students. The Office's goals are to enrich research and teaching by strengthening ties between campus and broadly defined communities and to explore how we as a university will help our faculty, students, staff, and society at large meet the challenges of modern citizenship.

Community Engagement Grants (CEGs) are available to support a wide array of engagement activities, including but not limited to community-based research, translational work, curriculum and course development, public art and culture projects, and other applications of graduate student expertise to community issues. Engaged work may seek to enrich scholarship, research, and creative activity; enhance curriculum, teaching, and learning; prepare educated, engaged citizens; strengthen democratic values and civic responsibility; address critical societal issues; and, contribute to the public good.

The Stanford Sponsored Funding Department website provides a simple way to apply for funding from one or more of these offices. This is also a mechanism for offices to coordinate their responses.

The School of Humanities and Sciences (H&S) is the heart of Stanford University and the primary locus of Stanford's liberal arts education. H&S awards nearly 80 percent of Stanford undergraduate degrees and more than 40 percent of doctoral degrees at Stanford. The school offers a distinctive academic environment among major research universities: one that combines undergraduate education, graduate education and training, and research led by faculty of international renown who are pioneers on the intellectual frontier.

H&S is dedicated to the highest levels of excellence in the cultivation of learning and the creation of knowledge across a broad spectrum of intellectual disciplines. As Stanford's largest school, H&S encompasses the core humanities, the fine arts, languages and literatures, the social sciences, mathematics, and the natural sciences.