The new program focuses on three areas: sustainability challenges, energy transition, and policy solutions. It also examines China's move from fossil fuels to clean energy and its emergence as a global leader in this transition.

The next big thing in the production of battery minerals may be batteries. Eric McShane and Evan Gardner, co-founders of Electroflow Technologies, hope so. The two met as Stanford postdoctoral fellows in Prof. Matteo Cargnello's lab, and their startup won a grant from the TomKat Center's Innovation Transfer program. (subscription required)

The solar energy company, which Nedjip Tozun, BS ’02, MBA ’07, and Sam Goldman, MBA '07, started as a class project, has quietly built one of Africa’s largest consumer financing empires, Techpoint.Africa reports.