4. Academic departments and programs

Capitalize the formal name: Department of Oceans, Earth Systems Program. The “of” may be dropped and the title flopped while capitalization is retained: Oceans Department. Lowercase department in plural uses, but capitalize the proper name element: the departments of History and Political Science.

The school’s official name is the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability; according to the gift agreement, refer to the school by the full name, and on second reference it is permissible to drop “Stanford” (Doerr School of Sustainability). What this means in practice: Use the school where possible, and the full name where necessary. The initialism SDSS is only used for internal communications.

  • Full name first reference
  • No acronym externally
  • Second reference: Doerr School of Sustainability or “the school”

The Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability includes seven academic departments, three interdisciplinary programs, two institutes, and the Sustainability Accelerator.

School programs/units:
Change Leadership for Sustainability
Dean's Office (DO for internal use only)
Earth Systems Program, second reference: Earth systems
Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources (E-IPER). second reference: E-IPER
Hopkins Marine Station, second reference: Hopkins
O'Donohue Family Stanford Educational Farm. second reference: the farm

Departments:
Civil & Environmental Engineering (CEE, joint with the School of Engineering)
Earth & Planetary Sciences (EPS for internal use only)
Earth System Science (ESS for internal use only)
Environmental Social Sciences (ESoS for internal use only)
Energy Science & Engineering (ESE for internal use only)
Geophysics (GP for internal use only)
Oceans

Institutes/centers/programs/initiatives:
Center for Just Environmental Futures, second reference: Futures Center
Center for Ocean Solutions 
Center on Food Security and the Environment 
Center for Human and Planetary Health 
Climate and Energy Policy Program
Disease Ecology in a Changing World
Global Freshwater Initiative
Natural Capital Alliance, second reference: NatCap
Osa & Golfito Initiative
Precourt Institute for Energy, second reference: Precourt Institute
Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment, second reference: Woods Institute for the Environment or Woods Institute
Sustainability Accelerator

  • Upon first mention, clarify where the Accelerator is based. For example, “The Stanford Sustainability Accelerator, based in the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability, is…”
  • If the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability has already been mentioned, you can refer to it as the Doerr School of Sustainability in the sentence above. Upon second and subsequent mentions, use “the Accelerator.”  Please contact Katie Jewett if you have questions.

Sustainable Societies Initiative (SSI for internal use only)
Water in the West (WitW)
Water, Heath and Development