Overall Rating Silver
Overall Score 48.20
Liaison Lauren Poole
Submission Date Dec. 10, 2021

STARS v2.2

Colorado School of Mines
AC-9: Research and Scholarship

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 12.00 / 12.00
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Part 1. Sustainability research

Total number of employees that conduct research:
294

Number of employees engaged in sustainability research:
194

Percentage of employees that conduct research that are engaged in sustainability research:
65.99

Part 2. Sustainability research by department

Total number of academic departments that include at least one employee who conducts research:
16

Number of academic departments that include at least one employee who conducts sustainability research:
16

Percentage of departments that conduct research that are engaged in sustainability research:
100

Research Inventory 

A copy of the inventory of the institution’s sustainability research (upload):
Inventory of the institution’s sustainability research:
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A brief description of the methodology the institution followed to complete the research inventory:
To develop this inventory, data was taken from the Colorado School of Mines Office of Research Administration (ORA). Data on research efforts at Mines was given in the form of a .xlsx file that documented project names, PIs, funding sources, keywords, and departmental affiliation.

To determine the total number of employees conducting research, the number of unique PIs provided in the ORA research inventory was totaled. Then, using funding sources, project descriptions, and keywords, any research related to water, energy, community responsibility, solar, renewables, ecosystems, and otherwise was marked as "sustainability research." This sustainability research was then tallied to include unique PIs across all research projects and departmental affiliation across all research projects. These totals resulted in the totals included in this section of the STARS report.

Optional Fields 

Website URL where information about the institution’s sustainability research is available:
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Additional documentation to support the submission:
Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
A brief description of the data collection methodology is included in the research inventory sheet.

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