Stanford Earth alumni are leaders in their fields.
Since its founding in 2015, the Stanford Earth Alumni Awards program has recognized highly significant contributions to civil, government, business, or academic communities by members of the school's alumni body. The awards celebrate the long-lasting, significant impacts our graduates are having far beyond Stanford's campus.
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The Stanford Earth Alumni Awards shine a light on the incredible career achievements of our alumni, including their contributions to science and leadership related to Earth resources, environment, and sustainability. We are proud to honor them in this way.
Stanford Earth 2019 Alumni Awards
Minerals leader Brad Mills recognized with Distinguished Alumni Award
An exploration geologist with vast business expertise, Mills sees a role for natural resources in renewing communities.
Xyoli Pérez-Campos receives Early- to Mid-Career Alumni Award
A professor and head of the National Seismological Service of Mexico, Pérez-Campos is the “public face of earthquakes in Mexico.”
Past Recipients
Lawrence W. Funkhouser
MS '48
Distinguished Alumni Award 2018
Jessica Watkins
BS '10
Early- to Mid-Career Award 2018
George A. Thompson
PhD '49
Distinguished Alumni Award 2017
Edgar Rangel-German
MS '98, PhD '03
Early- to Mid-Career Award 2017
Robert G. Coleman
PhD '57
Distinguished Alumni Award 2016
William R. Dickinson
BS ’52, MS ’56, PhD ’58
Distinguished Alumni Award 2015