Overall Rating Silver - expired
Overall Score 61.98
Liaison Michael Amadori
Submission Date March 2, 2018
Executive Letter Download

STARS v2.1

Hobart and William Smith Colleges
AC-9: Research and Scholarship

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 7.63 / 12.00 Michael Amadori
Sustainability Manager
Office of Sustainability
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Part 1 

Total number of the institution’s faculty and/or staff that are engaged in research (headcount):
223

Number of the institution’s faculty and/or staff that are engaged in sustainability research (headcount):
35

Percentage of the institution's faculty and staff researchers that are engaged in sustainability research :
15.70

Part 2 

Total number of academic departments (or the equivalent) that include at least one faculty or staff member that conducts research:
54

Number of academic departments (or the equivalent) that include at least one faculty or staff member that conducts sustainability research:
11

Percentage of research-producing departments that are engaged in sustainability research:
20.37

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:
Associate Professor Christopher Annear - Anthropology and Sociology Professor Nan Crystal Arens - Geoscience Associate Professor Jeffrey Blankenship - Art and Architecture Professor Walter Bowyer - Chemistry Professor Scott Brophy - Philosophy Associate Professor Meghan Brown - Biology Associate Professor Kristin Brubaker - Environmental Studies Professor Sigrid Carle - Biology Dr. Lisa Cleckner - Director of the Finger Lakes Institute Associate Professor Bradley Cosentino - Biology Assistant Professor Chiyo Crawford - Environmental Studies Associate Professor Tara Curtin - Geoscience Director of Introductory Biology Laboratories Susan Cushman Assistant Professor Gabriella D’Angelo - Art and Architecture Professor Mark Deutschlander - Biology Professor Tom Drennen - Economics and Environmental Studies Professor John Halfman - Geoscience Associate Professor Jessica Hayes-Conroy - Women's Studies Assistant Professor Elizabeth Johnson- Environmental Studies Associate Professor David Kendrick- Geoscience Associate Professor Kristy Kenyon- Biology Associate Professor Beth Kinne - Environmental Studies Professor Neil Laird - Geoscience Assistant Professor Robin Lewis - Environmental Studies Associate Professor Darrin Magee - Environmental Studies Associate Professor Brenda Maiale- Anthropology and Sociology Professor Jim MaKinster - Education Associate Professor Kirin Makker - Art and Architecture Assistant Professor Whitney Mauer - Environmental Studies Associate Professor Nicholas Metz - Geoscience Luce Environmental Studies Postdoc Anto Mohsin Professor Elizabeth Newell - Biology Professor Steven Penn- Physics Professor Craig Rimmerman - Public Policy Studies

A brief description of the methodology the institution followed to complete the research inventory (including the types of faculty and staff included as researchers):
Based on the Earth Charter, all faculty listed on the HWS Environmental Studies faculty list are engaged in sustainability research. Each faculty member is researching one or more of the following: ecological integrity; social and economic justice; democracy, nonviolence, and peace; and respect and care for the community of life.

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