The new advisory council, which notably includes Bill Gates, John Doerr and John Hennessy, is set to advise the Dean of the Doerr School Arun Majumdar on the direction the sustainability school should take with new initiatives, programs and partnerships.
Focused on tackling climate change, 2018 Penn graduate Krish Mehta, from Mumbai, has been awarded a 2023 Knight-Hennessy Scholarship for graduate studies and global leadership training at Stanford University.
The Understory Collective, a project run by Stanford students, hosted its first event with members of the Karuk tribe to discuss the use of prescribed burns to protect forests.