Overall Rating	Silver - expired
Overall Score	52.53
Liaison	Andrew DeMelia
Submission Date	June 6, 2019
Executive Letter	Download

STARS v2.1

Bryant University
AC-9: Research and Scholarship

Status	Score	Responsible Party
	9.33 / 12.00	Gaytha Langlois Chair, Science & Technology Department Science & Technology Department

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Part 1

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

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 :

16.92

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:

41.67

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:

Economics (Laurie Bates, Sam Mirmirani – health care costs and quality) History & Social Studies (Nicole Freiner – global studies in Asia; Judy McDonnell, Sandra Enos) Marketing (Sharmin Attaran, Stephanie Boyer, Michael Gravier, Jane McKay Nesbitt) Management (John Visich, sustainable supply chains; Angela Wicks, quality control and operations management in health care) Science & Technology (Gaytha Langlois, marine ecology and coral reef management; Julia Crowley-Parmentier and Dan McNally, degradation of petroleum pollutants; Qin Leng and Hong Yang, climate change studies; and Christopher Reid, bacterial footprints in riverine sediments).

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

(1) Counted the number of faculty that are likely to include sustainability issues or projects in their research. (2) Included the departments where these faculty reside. (3) For the total departments with any kind of research, it was assumed that all departments have at least one researcher among their ranks.

Optional Fields

The website URL where information about the programs or initiatives is available:

http://web.bryant.edu/~bes

Additional documentation to support the submission:

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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:

Some new faculty with specific backgrounds in applied sustainability topics have joined the Bryant faculty, but have not yet posted the results of new research they will pursue going forward.