Overall Rating	Gold
Overall Score	73.66
Liaison	Amber Saxton
Submission Date	Feb. 22, 2024

STARS v2.2

George Mason University
AC-9: Research and Scholarship

Status	Score	Responsible Party
	12.00 / 12.00	Leah Nichols Executive Director ISE

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Part 1. Sustainability research

Total number of employees that conduct research:

627

Number of employees engaged in sustainability research:

279

Percentage of employees that conduct research that are engaged in sustainability research:

44.50

Part 2. Sustainability research by department

Total number of academic departments that include at least one employee who conducts research:

Number of academic departments that include at least one employee who conducts sustainability research:

Percentage of departments that conduct research that are engaged in sustainability research:

77.33

Research Inventory

A copy of the inventory of the institution’s sustainability research (upload):

AC9_FY22_ISE_Affiliated_Researchers-REVISED_duplicate_removed.xlsx

Inventory of the institution’s sustainability research:

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A brief description of the methodology the institution followed to complete the research inventory:

# of researchers: unique PIs from FY2022 research expenditures data per ISE

# of sustainability researchers: unique PIs from FY2022 research expenditures from awards aligned with ISE research themes

Method: Office of Sponsored Programs list of funded research, FY2022: hand-sorted and identified as sustainability research by ISE

Optional Fields

Website URL where information about the institution’s sustainability research is available:

https://ise.gmu.edu/

Additional documentation to support the submission:

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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:

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