Mel Lane Student Program Grants

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Funding Information

The Mel Lane Student Program provides interdisciplinary environmental grants for projects developed by student groups registered with the Associated Students of Stanford University (ASSU). A total of $10,000 per academic year is available to fund projects.

General Project Requirements: Must have broad relevance and involvement for Stanford students. Focus is on one or more of the five core research areas: climate and energy, freshwater, land use and conservation, oceans and estuaries, and the sustainable built environment. Addresses solutions to environmental problems. Includes an education and communication component. NOTE: The Mel Lane Student Program will not fund individual or small group research projects.

Two rounds of funding are available for group projects on the environment. Deadlines are October 24, 2011 and February 13, 2012.

Mel Lane was co-owner and publisher of Lane Publishing Co. and Sunset Magazine and Books. A tireless advocate for the environment, and a passionate enthusiast of Stanford, he died at home in Atherton, Calif., on July 28, 2007. He was 85.

A university trustee from 1981 to 1991, Lane led numerous development efforts at Stanford, including establishment of the Woods Institute for the Environment, where he was a founding member of the Advisory Council.

In 1965, he was appointed by Gov. Edmund G. Brown to be the first chairman of the newly created San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission. The San Francisco Bay Plan developed by the commission still governs protection of the Bay and development of its shoreline.

In 1972, Lane was appointed by Gov. Ronald Reagan as the first chairman of the California Coastal Commission. The commission's plan for the coast remains the primary constitution for conservation and development of the 1,100-mile California coastline.

Lane served on the board of directors of the World Wildlife Fund, the National Trust for Historic Preservation and The Nature Conservancy-California, and was a founding director of the Peninsula Open Space Trust.

"Mel was a wise counselor and trustee and a devoted champion of the university," recalls Stanford President John Hennessy. "But Mel's contributions extended well beyond Stanford. His early dedication to the California environment, his efforts to protect San Francisco Bay, and his chairmanship of the Coastal Commission are evidence of remarkable vision and humanity."

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