Overall Rating	Silver - expired
Overall Score	56.33
Liaison	Ryan Kmetz
Submission Date	Feb. 25, 2020

STARS v2.2

University of Maryland, Baltimore County
AC-9: Research and Scholarship

Status	Score	Responsible Party
	5.34 / 12.00

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Part 1. Sustainability research

Total number of employees that conduct research:

495

Number of employees engaged in sustainability research:

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

8.08

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:

26.32

Research Inventory

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

Sustainability_research_LD2hakw.xlsx

Inventory of the institution’s sustainability research:

Please see attached

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

Methodology: The sustainability professional, or their designee, reviews the current University sponsored research activities and uses the keywords/phrases in Table 1 to identity research content related to sustainability.
Table 1: Keywords/phrases to include in search
Adaptation
Change
Circular Economy
Clean Air
Clean Water
Climate Change
Conservation
Eco
Ecology
Energy
Environment / Environmental
Green
Justice
Local
Mitigation
Natural Systems
Pollution
Recycling
Regulations
Renewable
Resilience
Restorative
Social
Solar
Sustainability/ Sustainable
Systems/Systems Thinking
Wetland
Wind

Optional Fields

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

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Additional documentation to support the submission:

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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:

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