SES Dean Pamela Matson with E-IPER graduates Xuehua Zhang, Elizabeth Richards, Veena Srinivasan, and Holmes Hummel

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E-IPER grew directly out of the fruitful interdisciplinary collaborations of Stanford faculty, who recognized the value of training graduate students explicitly to be interdisciplinary thinkers. E-IPER's historical highlights include these milestones:

• October 2001 - Stanford University's Academic Senate gives E-IPER approval to award the PhD and dual MS
  
  
• September 2002 - First cohort of six PhD students matriculates
  
  
• September 2005 - Gretchen C. Daily, professor of Biological Sciences, appointed Faculty Director
  
  
• June 2006 - Senate reauthorizes E-IPER for five years
  
  
• March 2007 - Senate approves Joint MBA-MS in Environment and Resources
  
  
• May 2007 - Senate approves Joint JD-MS in Environment and Resources
  
  
• September 2007 - Four Graduate School of Business and four Stanford Law School students begin Joint MS in Environment and Resources
  
  
• January 2008 - E-IPER moves to the new Jerry Yang and Akiko Yamazaki Environment and Energy (Y2E2) Building