| Overall Rating | Silver - expired |
|---|---|
| Overall Score | 48.19 |
| Liaison | Veronica Johnson |
| Submission Date | May 28, 2015 |
| Executive Letter | Download |
Southwestern University
AC-9: Academic Research
| Status | Score | Responsible Party |
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8.26 / 12.00 |
Laura
Hobgood-Oster professor environmental studies |
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Number of the institution’s faculty and/or staff engaged in sustainability research:
10
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Total number of the institution’s faculty and/or staff engaged in research:
80
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Number of academic departments (or the equivalent) that include at least one faculty or staff member that conducts sustainability research:
11
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The total number of academic departments (or the equivalent) that conduct research:
27
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A copy of the sustainability research inventory that includes the names and department affiliations of faculty and staff engaged in sustainability research:
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Names and department affiliations of faculty and staff engaged in sustainability research:
Laura Hobgood, Religion and Environmental Studies
Romi Burks, Biology and Environmental Studies
Melissa Johnson, Anthropology and Environmental Studies
Josh Long, Environmental Studies
Emily Niemeyer, Chemistry
Jimmy Smith, Kinesiology
Emily Northrop, Economics
Molly Jensen, Religion
John Ore, Theater
Steve Alexander, Physics
Anwar Sounny-Slitine, Environmental Studies (staff with faculty rank)
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A brief description of the methodology the institution followed to complete the research inventory:
Overview of Brief Annual Reports submitted by faculty each year along with other information gathered from the Office of the Provost.
Faculty included as researchers are all tenured or tenure-track members of the permanent faculty, along with one advanced staff person with faculty rank who teaches Environmental GIS courses.
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A brief description of notable accomplishments during the previous three years by faculty and/or staff engaged in sustainability research:
Books Published:
Hobgood, "A Dog's History of the World"
Articles Published:
Burks et al, 2013. Count your eggs before they invade: Identifying and quantifying egg clutches of two invasive apple snail species (Pomacea). PLoSOne Open Access.
Burks, 2012. One McBug Burger Please: Eating insects in ecology class to contextualize climate change discussion. EcoEd.
Hudson, P.F., Sounny -Slitine, M.A., & LaFevor, M. (2013) Geomorphic controls on hydrologic connectivity along the Lower Mississippi River. Hydrological Processes 27 (15), 2187–2196
Long, J., Sounny-Slitine, M. A., Castles, K., Curran, J., Glaser, H., Hoyer, E., Moore, W., Morse, L., O’Hara, M., & Parafina, B. (2013). Toward an applied methodology for price comparison studies of farmers’ markets and competing retailers at the local scale. Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development.
Sounny-Slitine, M.A. (2012) Green Power. Encyclopedia of Energy, Edited by Morris A Pierce, Salem Press: Pasadena, CA.
Sounny-Slitine, M.A. (2012) Energy Geography of Morocco. Encyclopedia of Energy, Edited by Morris A Pierce, Salem Press: Pasadena, CA.
Long, Joshua (2014). “Constructing the Narrative of the Sustainability Fix: Sustainability, Social Justice, and Representation in Austin, TX." Urban Studies. DOI: 10.1177/0042098014560501
Long, Joshua, Brack Hale and Alison Vogelaar (2013). “Toward Sustainable Educational Travel.” Journal of Sustainable Tourism. DOI: 10.1080/09669582.2013.819877
Brack Hale, Alison Vogelaar, Joshua Long (2013). “A Broad Spectrum: Sustainability in Educational Travel.” Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education Vol. 14 (4).
Long, Joshua (and numerous co-authors) (2013). “Toward an applied methodology for price comparison studies of farmers' markets and competing retailers at the local scale.” Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development. http://dx.doi.org/10.5304/jafscd.2013.033.010
Johnson, 2015, “Creolized Conservation: A Belizean Creole Community Encounters a Wildlife Sanctuary” Anthropological Quarterly 88(1) (page numbers coming in March)
Johnson, 2013, “Environment,” in James Carrier and Deborah Gewertz (eds.). Handbook of Sociocultural Anthropology. London: Bloomsbury Publishers, pp. 336-354.
Northrop, “Food, the Environment, and A Good Standard of Living” in A Brighter Future: Improving the Standard of Living Now and for the Next Generation, edited by Richard P.F. Holt and Daphne T. Greenwood, M.E. Sharpe, 2014.
Hobgood, "And Say the Animal Really Responded," in Divinanimality, 2014, Fordham UP.
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The website URL where information about sustainability research is available:
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