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2024

 

20x20 | Reducing health impacts from brick kilns | Woods Institute for the Environment | October 18, 2024

Solving complex global health and environmental problems | Center for Innovation in Global Health | September 12, 2024

To save topsoil & reduce pollution, Bangladesh moves toward alternative bricks | Abu Siddique | Mongabay Conservation News | March 4, 2024

2023

 

Saving Thousands of Lives by Improving Brick Manufacturing in Bangladesh | icddr,b | November 20, 2023

Solutions-Oriented Research is a Badly-Needed Shift in Culture | Reema Saleh | Stanford Impact Labs | September 1, 2023

Methane Guiding Principles (MGP) & Stanford University: Methane Sensing - Aircraft and Satellites (Sahar El Abbadi) | Methane Guiding Principles | July 19, 2023 

Opinion: Air quality disasters aren’t going away. Here’s how we should protect ourselves | Abraar Karan, Devabhaktuni Srikrishna, Ranu Dhillon | Los Angeles Times | June 16, 2023

The Handoff:  How to bridge the gap between academic research and real-world impact | Sam Scott | Stanford Magazine | May 2023  [Stanford Impact Labs (SIL) Grant:  Prof. Stephen Luby's "Clean Air and Better Health in Bangladesh"]

Moogdho Mim Mahzab, Reducing Environmental Pollution in Bangladesh | Lalita du Perron | Stanford Center for South Asia (Global Studies): SASSPod | January 9, 2023

2022

 

Air pollution by brick kilns causes over 6,000 premature adult deaths in Bangladesh yearlyThe Business Standard | December 2, 2022

Sustainability Accelerator:  First round accelerator grants [Planning: Refining a technology to reduce black carbon emissions from South Asian brick kilns (Steve Luby, N. Grant Miller, Jeff Wood, Lester Su; Postdoctoral Fellow: Moogdho Mahzab)] | Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability | June 28, 2022

Sustainability Accelerator:  Sustainability Accelerator brings people, policy to fast-track real-world solutions | Danielle Torrent Tucker | Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability | June 28, 2022

2021

 

Five Lessons from a Scientist as Problem Solver: Stephen Luby & Cleaner Brick Manufacturing in Bangladesh | Sarah Jane Staats | Stanford Impact Labs | December 9, 2021

Stanford-led Research Underscores Pollution's Impact on Child Health | Rob Jordan | Stanford News | October 12, 2021

Stanford University Researchers Tackle Pollution From Artisanal Brick Kilns to Save the Environment and Improve Health | Susan Chu | The University Network | May 22, 2021

Stanford researchers use AI to empower environmental regulators | Rob Jordan | Stanford News | April 19, 2021

Sustainability AcceleratorStanford accelerators move knowledge to impact in the world | Stanford News | April 1, 2021

Addressing pollution brick by brick | Rebecca Beyer | Stanford King Center on Global Development | March 10, 2021

Cleaner Brick Manufacturing in Bangladesh | Stanford Impact Labs | February 5, 2021

2020

 

21 Stanford affiliates awarded Fulbright grants: Chris LeBoaStanford News | July 23, 2020

"Christopher (Chris) LeBoa, (BS in Human Biology, MS in Epidemiology, ’20) Indonesia, will work with the Indonesian Ministry of Health to understand the spatio-temporal patterns of tuberculosis in Indonesia and to help Indonesia reach its goal of tuberculosis elimination by 2030."

Impact Brief: A Focus on Indoor Pollution Becomes a Mission to Transform an Outdoor Industry | Stanford Impact Labs | April 1, 2020

2019

 

Wildfire Air Quality Is the Norm Elsewhere | USA Today | December 2019

Taking on poor air quality in South Asia brick by brick | Holly MacCormick | Stanford Medicine: Scope | April 1, 2019

A Better Brick | Rob Jordan | Stanford Medicine | March 11, 2019

Brick Kiln Solutions: All News | Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment | March 11, 2019 

Brick Kiln Solutions: All Media | Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment | February 14, 2019

2018

 

Brick Manufacturing and Public Health in Bangladesh | Katherine Li | QS Wow News | September 25, 2018

Addressing highly polluting brick manufacturing in South Asia | Stephen Luby | Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies |  April 9, 2018

Heal the Earth via the Heavens | Khai Trung Le | Clay Technology |  February 15, 2018

2017

 

Mapping brick kilns to improve health of people and the environment | Rachel Leslie | Stanford Medicine: Scope | September 20, 2017

Stanford Researchers Aim to Promote Cleaner Technologies in Brick Kiln Industry | AZO CleanTech | September 15, 2017

Researchers team up to reduce brick kiln pollution, improve health | Rob Jordan | Stanford Medicine | September 14, 2017

Stanford researchers team up to reduce pollution and improve health: Video | Rob Jordan | Stanford News | September 14, 2017

Stanford University Researchers Tackle Pollution From Artisanal Brick Kilns To Save the Environment And Improve Health | The University Network | September 14, 2017

Toward ending an environmental nightmare | EurekaAlert! & AAAS | September 14, 2017

Collaboration meets innovation in transformative Stanford environmental projects | Rob Jordan | Stanford Report | July 19, 2017

2016

 

Stanford grant programs offer environmental solutions | Devon Ryan | Stanford Report | July 13, 2016

2014

 

FSI Implementation Lab puts focus on international policy in practice | Adam Gorlick | Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies | March 10, 2014

2013

 

Funding research in the world's poorest places | Ben Kennedy | Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies | February 25, 2013