The Stanford Woods Institute recently welcomed the newest additions to for its interdisciplinary community of researchers.

Woods appointed Jeremy Bailenson and Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar as senior fellows and Leon Szeptycki as professor of the practice. David Lobell and Noah Diffenbaugh, both associate professors of environmental earth systems science, have been promoted from Woods center fellows to senior fellows.

New Faculty:

·       Jeremy Bailenson, Associate Professor of Communication

·       Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar, Stanley Morrison Professor of Law and Director of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies

·       Leon Szeptycki, Professor of the Practice, Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment

Promoted Faculty:

·       Noah Diffenbaugh, Associate Professor of Environmental Earth Systems Science

·       David Lobell, Associate Professor of Environmental Earth Systems Science, Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Associate Director of the Center on Food Security and the Environment

Reappointed Faculty:

·      For a full list of scholars who have been approved by the faculty for terms as Woods fellows this fall, visit our faculty and researchers listing.

Comprising 10 percent of Stanford University’s faculty and research professionals, the Stanford Woods Institute’s 152 fellows and affiliated faculty are leaders in their academic fields. They bring expertise from across Stanford’s seven schools – business, earth sciences, education, engineering, humanities and sciences, law and medicine – to do pioneering, solutions-oriented work on environment and sustainability issues.