Environmental Institute Gets a Boost

Providing financial incentives to restore natural habitats. Finding fresh solutions to hunger and destructive farming practices. Reducing energy consumption. Stanford faculty who are collaborating on these and other challenges just got a boost from a $30 million gift to the environmental institute, now the Ward W. and Priscilla B. Woods Institute for the Environment. In addition to serving on Stanford’s Board of Trustees and chairing the board of the Stanford Management Company, Ward Woods, ’64, chairs the executive committee of the Wildlife Conservation Society and is a director of the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation. The gift will further the Stanford institute’s work in its core areas—freshwater; energy and climate systems; land use and conservation; and oceans and estuaries—as well as provide seed money for new environmental research and for training environmental scientists in leadership and management skills.