Overall Rating Silver - expired
Overall Score 53.50
Liaison Amy Kadrie
Submission Date Jan. 31, 2019
Executive Letter Download

STARS v2.1

University of Rochester
AC-9: Research and Scholarship

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 11.76 / 12.00 Karen Berger
Ph.D.
Earth and Environmental Sciences
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Part 1 

Total number of the institution’s faculty and/or staff that are engaged in research (headcount):
368

Number of the institution’s faculty and/or staff that are engaged in sustainability research (headcount):
69

Percentage of the institution's faculty and staff researchers that are engaged in sustainability research :
18.75

Part 2 

Total number of academic departments (or the equivalent) that include at least one faculty or staff member that conducts research:
25

Number of academic departments (or the equivalent) that include at least one faculty or staff member that conducts sustainability research:
18

Percentage of research-producing departments that are engaged in sustainability research:
72

Research Inventory 

A copy of the institution’s inventory of its sustainability research that includes names and department affiliations of faculty and staff engaged in sustainability research:
The institution’s inventory of its sustainability research that includes names and department affiliations of faculty and staff engaged in sustainability research:
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A brief description of the methodology the institution followed to complete the research inventory (including the types of faculty and staff included as researchers):
Faculty who teach SUS-related courses, and those who have participated in on-campus academic sustainability events, were included in the inventory.

Optional Fields 

The website URL where information about the programs or initiatives is available:
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Additional documentation to support the submission:
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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
Tenure-track faculty are those engaged in research from AS&E only. Number from https://www.rochester.edu/aboutus/ Medical School faculty were omitted from this list due to difficulty determining the scope of their research portfolios.

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