Overall Rating	Gold
Overall Score	74.46
Liaison	Ciannat Howett
Submission Date	Oct. 9, 2024

STARS v2.2

Emory University
AC-9: Research and Scholarship

Status	Score	Responsible Party
	3.01 / 12.00	Cyrus Bhedwar Director Office of Sustainability Initiatives

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Part 1. Sustainability research

Total number of employees that conduct research:

2,178

Number of employees engaged in sustainability research:

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

2.75

Part 2. Sustainability research by department

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

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

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

23.88

Research Inventory

A copy of the inventory of the institution’s sustainability research (upload):

STARS_IRDS_RDA_Award_Report_July2024_2021-23_Final.xlsx

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:

This year, Emory reused its methodology from our past report but made changes to how courses were categorized based on the best judgment of staff. Our methodology was to create a list of keywords made up of AASHE-recommended keywords and phrases that centered on UN SDG references. We used this same keyword list as the first step to inventorying the courses for AC-1, the research for AC-9, and the continuing education courses for EN-12. Emory Sustainability staff reviewed all of the research descriptions and identified whether or not they were sustainability-focused or sustainability-inclusive, and eliminated those that were neither. We used the long research descriptions to conduct this review.

As a public health-focused research institution, a common SDG combination was SDG 3: Good Health and Well-Being and SDG 10: Reduce Inequalities. We believe this research contributes significantly to advancing sustainability by actively addressing racial or historical disparities, often associated with environmental health issues or institutional discrimination (SDG 16).

We also feel we have undercounted the total number of research projects addressing sustainability because of incomplete or unavailable information. Many titles suggested a strong sustainability element, but we could not provide substantial references to support our hypothesis and accordingly did not include these.

Optional Fields

Website URL where information about the institution’s sustainability research is available:

https://sustainability.emory.edu/initiatives/academics/

Additional documentation to support the submission:

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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:

All data reported in this section for September 2021-August 2023

The spreadsheet includes the following columns:

Fiscal Year: the fiscal year of the award

PI Name

Operating Unit: School in which the PI operates

Department: Program or major in which the PI operates

Title: Award title

Description: Award description. In some cases links to additional information have been provided in the cases where the description itself may not be considered sufficiently detailed to evaluate.

Justification: the SDG or SDGs addressed by the research award.