Overall Rating	Bronze
Overall Score	40.10
Liaison	Laurie Kman
Submission Date	Oct. 2, 2024

STARS v2.2

Lewis University
AC-9: Research and Scholarship

Status	Score	Responsible Party
	6.06 / 12.00	Laurie Kman Manager of Facilities and Sustainability Facilities

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Part 1. Sustainability research

Total number of employees that conduct research:

Number of employees engaged in sustainability research:

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

6.06

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:

45.45

Research Inventory

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

Sustainabilty_Research_STARS_Report.docx

Inventory of the institution’s sustainability research:

Dr. Jerry Kavouras, chair and biology professor at Lewis University, recently shared his experiences from a transformative trip to Yopal, Colombia in May 2024, in a blog post titled "From Classroom to Cacao Farm: A Transformative Journey."

Dr James Burke, Professor Emeritus, Theology // Peace & Justice Studies // Gros Institute for Dialogue Justice & Social Action, Lewis University

2024 Midwest Energy Solutions Conference at the Marriott Magnificent Mile, Chicago, Jan. 30-Feb. 1, 2024. Researching: Acquiring energy transition language, learning about monies available through Federal and State governments, and relationship-building.Participated in pilgrimage-study retreat on the nonviolence of St. Francis and St. Clare, Assisi, Italy, June 20-June 30. Researching: Does Christian nonviolence have an irreplaceable role to play in humanity’s transition from fossil fuels, as Bill McKibben suggested in Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out (Holt, 2020)?Named Visiting Scholar at Loyola University of Chicago’s School for Environmental Sustainability, Spring 2022, researching: how to accelerate transitions from fossil fuels at Catholic parishes and universities, especially sixty-four Lasallian universities and their faculty, staff and student households?

Yinan Ni, Phd, ASA

Project 1 - “Environmental, social, and governance premium in Chinese stock markets” - studies the evolving effect of corporate ESG performance on the stock returns in China's stock markets. Firms with poor ESG performance provide higher stock returns after the Paris Agreement. Published at Global Finance Journal: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1044028323000066

Project 2 – “Carbon Risk Premium and Regulatory Shocks” - investigate how investors price carbon emission risks in Chinese stock markets. We quantify the monthly carbon risk premium to range between 0.62% and 1.62%. We find that large firms and less innovative firms underperform in carbon emissions and that private firms outperform state-owned peers in carbon efficiency. (The manuscript has been submitted for journal review.)

A brief description of the methodology the institution followed to complete the research inventory:

The University lists faculty research on the Lewis University website. Information was taken from data listed there. Abstracts for the research projects are also available from that site. Each abstract is read to determine a connection to sustainability. If a connection is found, a follow up is made to the faculty/staff member to gather more information regarding the project. If it fits the criteria, they are counted towards this credit.

Optional Fields

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

https://www.lewisu.edu/sustainability/gogreen.htm

Additional documentation to support the submission:

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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:

https://lewisu.edu/sure/fac-projects.htm