Overall Rating Gold - expired
Overall Score 67.28
Liaison Geory Kurtzhals
Submission Date Jan. 4, 2022

STARS v2.2

University of Notre Dame
AC-9: Research and Scholarship

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 7.78 / 12.00 Geory Kurtzhals
Sr. Director
Office of Sustainability
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Part 1. Sustainability research

Total number of employees that conduct research:
555

Number of employees engaged in sustainability research:
57

Percentage of employees that conduct research that are engaged in sustainability research:
10.27

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:
17

Percentage of departments that conduct research that are engaged in sustainability research:
45.95

Research Inventory 

A copy of the inventory of the institution’s sustainability research (upload):
University_of_Notre_Dame_Inventory_of_Sustainability_Research_2020-2021.xlsx

Inventory of the institution’s sustainability research:
See uploaded file

A brief description of the methodology the institution followed to complete the research inventory:
A review of all abstracts for proposals for research for academic year 2020-2021 determined that 57 of them included reference to the following sustainability keywords:
Climate Change
Conservation
Ecological systems
Energy Conservation
Environment systems
Greenhouse Gas
Non-polluting
Solar energy
Sustainable Energy
Sustainable Environment
Sustainability
Wind energy

Given that there are likely missing appropriate keywords, this number is likely an underestimate.

Optional Fields 

Website URL where information about the institution’s sustainability research is available:
https://research.nd.edu/

Additional documentation to support the submission:
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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
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