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Liaison Lisa Kilgore
Submission Date March 5, 2020
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STARS v2.1

Cornell University
AC-9: Research and Scholarship

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 12.00 / 12.00 Mark Lawrence
Communications Mgr
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Part 1 

Total number of the institution’s faculty and/or staff that are engaged in research (headcount):
1,684

Number of the institution’s faculty and/or staff that are engaged in sustainability research (headcount):
558

Percentage of the institution's faculty and staff researchers that are engaged in sustainability research :
33.14

Part 2 

Total number of academic departments (or the equivalent) that include at least one faculty or staff member that conducts research:
92

Number of academic departments (or the equivalent) that include at least one faculty or staff member that conducts sustainability research:
89

Percentage of research-producing departments that are engaged in sustainability research:
96.74

Research Inventory 

A copy of the institution’s inventory of its sustainability research that includes names and department affiliations of faculty and staff engaged in sustainability research:
The institution’s inventory of its sustainability research that includes names and department affiliations of faculty and staff engaged in sustainability research:
See link above.

A brief description of the methodology the institution followed to complete the research inventory (including the types of faculty and staff included as researchers):
Cornell University looks to the Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability to identify and advance interdisciplinary sustainability research and initiatives at Cornell and with external collaborators and partner organizations. The Atkinson Center has 558 Faculty Fellows, researchers across all colleges at Cornell, whose work is related to sustainability. The Faculty Fellows Browser https://www.atkinson.cornell.edu/about/people/fellows may be searched by research topic or organization.

Optional Fields 

The website URL where information about the programs or initiatives is available:
Additional documentation to support the submission:
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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
http://www.atkinson.cornell.edu/grants

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