Overall Rating	Silver - expired
Overall Score	46.39
Liaison	Weston Dripps
Submission Date	March 1, 2019
Executive Letter	Download

STARS v2.1

Amherst College
AC-9: Research and Scholarship

Status	Score	Responsible Party
	5.87 / 12.00	Laura Draucker Director of Sustainability Office of Environmental Sustainability

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Part 1

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

236

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

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

6.78

Part 2

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

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

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

39.47

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:

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The institution’s inventory of its sustainability research that includes names and department affiliations of faculty and staff engaged in sustainability research:

Patrica O'hara Chemistry, Biochemistry-Biophysics Studying the binding of pesticides and environmental toxins Sustainability Feature: Human/ecological health Leah C. Schmalzbauer Anthropology and Sociology, American Studies, Latinx and Latin American Studies Ways that contemporary global Capitalism affects the movement of people across international borders as well as within nation-states. Sustainability Feature: Social wellbeing Hannah Holleman Sociology and Anthropology, Environmental Studies Environmental Sociology Sustainability Feature: Environmental sociology Robert Hayashi American Studies, Environmental Studies Japanese American relocation and ecocriticism Sustainability Feature: Ecocriticism Micheal Hood Biology Biology of infectious diseases in natural populations. Sustainability Feature: Infectious diseases in natural populations Rick Lopez History, Environmental Studies, Latinx and Latin American Studies, European Studies Science, Nationalism, and Aesthetics in the Shaping of Mexico’s Environmental Imagination Sustainability Feature: Environmental history Anna Martini Environmental Studies, Geology Biogeochemical processes in the environment Sustainability Feature: Biogeochemical processes Edward Melillo History, Environmental Studies Environmental histories of the Pacific World, eco-Cultural networks in the British empire Sustainability Feature: Environmental history Jessica Reyes Economics Health Economics and Policy, Social Policy, Environmental Economics, Applied Econometrics, Public Economics, Labor Economics, Law and Economics Sustainability Feature: Environmental economics and policy Katherine Sims Economics, Environmental Studies Evaluation of land conservation policies, including both direct regulatory instruments such as protected areas and local zoning and incentive-based mechanisms such as payments for ecosystem services. How land conservation affects both environmental and economic outcomes and how changes in management or spatial targeting can minimize potential tradeoffs between environmental conservation and economic development. Sustainability Feature: Environmental economics David Delaney LJST, Black Studies The relationship between conceptions of nature and (largely American) legal thought and practice. Sustainability Feature: Environmental law Jessica Hejny Envrionmental Studies Climate Change and Environmental Policy Sustainability Feature: Environmental policy Ethan Temeles Biology and Environmental Studies Behavior, ecology, and evolution, focusing on sexual dimorphism and plant-pollinator interactions Sustainability Feature: Environmental ecology Jill Miller Biology The ecology and evolution of plant reproductive systems, focusing on features that promote outcrossing between individuals Sustainability Feature: Ecology and Evolution Ashwin Ravikumar Environmental Studies, Latinx and Latin American Studies Political ecology focusing on deforestation and land use change in the global South, especially in the Amazon rainforest Sustainability Feature: Environmental politics and policy Gabriel Arboleda Architectural Studies, Art and the History of Art, Latinx and Latin American Studies Ethnography and sustainability practices in architecture Sustainability Feature: Sustainability in architecture.

A brief description of the methodology the institution followed to complete the research inventory (including the types of faculty and staff included as researchers):

We researched each faculty research page to determine which research could be considered "sustainability" following the guidelines provided by AASHE.

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