Overall Rating Gold
Overall Score 71.55
Liaison Kelsey Beal
Submission Date Jan. 18, 2024

STARS v2.2

Indiana University Bloomington
AC-9: Research and Scholarship

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 10.86 / 12.00 Kelsey Beal
Sustainbility Analyst
Office of Sustainability
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Part 1. Sustainability research

Total number of employees that conduct research:
876

Number of employees engaged in sustainability research:
444

Percentage of employees that conduct research that are engaged in sustainability research:
50.68

Part 2. Sustainability research by department

Total number of academic departments that include at least one employee who conducts research:
112

Number of academic departments that include at least one employee who conducts sustainability research:
68

Percentage of departments that conduct research that are engaged in sustainability research:
60.71

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:
The SDG keyword list used by THE Impact Rankings and University of Toronto (https://sustainability.utoronto.ca/inventories/sustainable-development-goals-sdgs-keywords/) was combined with the keyword list historically used by IU to determine sustainability-related activities.

Active research was filtered such that
1) Research that began on or before June 30, 2022 was included (research beginning on or after July 1, 2022 was excluded) and
2) Research that ended on or before June 30, 2021 was excluded.
3) The title of the research was cross-referenced against the keyword list to produce the list of sustainability research

Optional Fields 

Website URL where information about the institution’s sustainability research is available:
Additional documentation to support the submission:
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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
https://environment.indiana.edu/faculty-new/index.html

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