Overall Rating Gold - expired
Overall Score 74.38
Liaison Lisa Kilgore
Submission Date March 1, 2018
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STARS v2.1

Cornell University
AC-9: Research and Scholarship

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 12.00 / 12.00 Mark Lawrence
Communications Mgr
ACSF
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Total number of the institution’s faculty and/or staff that are engaged in research (headcount):
1,648

Number of the institution’s faculty and/or staff that are engaged in sustainability research (headcount):
489

Percentage of the institution's faculty and staff researchers that are engaged in sustainability research :
29.67

Total number of academic departments (or the equivalent) that include at least one faculty or staff member that conducts research:
79

Number of academic departments (or the equivalent) that include at least one faculty or staff member that conducts sustainability research:
67

Percentage of research-producing departments that are engaged in sustainability research:
84.81

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:
See website listing below

A brief description of the methodology the institution followed to complete the research inventory (including the types of faculty and staff included as researchers):
Cornell looks to the Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future (ACSF) to identify and advance multidisciplinary sustainability research and initiatives at Cornell and with external partners. The Atkinson Center has 451 faculty fellows, researchers across all colleges at Cornell, whose work is related to sustainability. The Faculty Fellow Browser (http://www.acsf.cornell.edu/fellows/) may be searched by research topic or organization.

The website URL where information about the programs or initiatives is available:
Additional documentation to support the submission:
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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
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