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Energy Impact Summer Fellowships

In conjunction with the Haas Center, the TomKat Center will provide stipends to Stanford undergraduates who wish to work on a sustainable energy project with significant social impact.  

Spend 8 weeks next summer working as a team with fellow undergraduate students on a multifaceted project. Fellowships are Cardinal-Quarter-eligible. The fellowship will run for 8 weeks over the summer with exact dates to be determined. 

Industrial Water Treatment Plant in Bangladesh

Nutrient Recovery from Industrial Wastewaters

2026 Fellowship Project 1

Help Recovered Potential commercialize a modular electrochemical process that recovers and concentrates ammonia from industrial wastewater. Fellows will build TEA/LCA tools, map high-need wastewater market segments, evaluate product offtake and certification pathways, and deliver recommendations on market entry, process integration, and regulatory strategy. 

Keratin-Based Materials from Waste Wool

2026 Fellowship Project 2

Kerra is turning waste wool into keratin-based materials—diverting agricultural waste, supporting rural communities, and helping build a global keratin economy. Fellows will quantify emissions impacts (including sheep methane and waste-wool baselines), model supply-chain economics for scalable sourcing, and map carbon accounting and regulatory pathways to unlock climate incentives and guide commercialization.