Overall Rating Silver
Overall Score 64.57
Liaison Sherri Mason
Submission Date June 14, 2023

STARS v2.2

Penn State Erie, The Behrend College
AC-9: Research and Scholarship

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 12.00 / 12.00 Sherri Mason
Director of Sustainability
School of Science
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Part 1. Sustainability research

Total number of employees that conduct research:
208

Number of employees engaged in sustainability research:
144

Percentage of employees that conduct research that are engaged in sustainability research:
69.23

Part 2. Sustainability research by department

Total number of academic departments that include at least one employee who conducts research:
37

Number of academic departments that include at least one employee who conducts sustainability research:
35

Percentage of departments that conduct research that are engaged in sustainability research:
94.59

Research Inventory 

A copy of the inventory of the institution’s sustainability research (upload):
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:
On-line resources were used to compile list of faculty and their research interests. Specifically, the list was compiled by going to the faculty listing for each school, and pulling name, title and research interests for each listed faculty member. If no research interest was listed, the faculty member was not included on the list. The sustainability director worked with a set of student sustainability ambassadors (n=7), representing all schools within the college, to review research interests. Students were able to provide perspective on faculty beyond what is simply included in their on-line profiles. Additionally we cross-referenced our database with the Pure Elsevier database to ensure identified faculty researchers from Penn State Behrend were included within this database as publishing on SDG topics, https://pennstate.pure.elsevier.com/.

Optional Fields 

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