Overall Rating	Gold - expired
Overall Score	69.67
Liaison	Julie Newman
Submission Date	Sept. 30, 2021

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
AC-9: Research and Scholarship

Status	Score	Responsible Party
	12.00 / 12.00	MIT Office of Sustainability Director Office of Sustainability

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Part 1. Sustainability research

Total number of employees that conduct research:

1,067

Number of employees engaged in sustainability research:

177

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

16.59

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:

76.67

Research Inventory

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

MIT_Faculty_with_Sustainability_Research.xlsx

Inventory of the institution’s sustainability research:

This inventory reflects the depth of sustainability related research taking place across all five schools at MIT. The search terms applied by MIT match those required by AASHE and go beyond. [see methodology below]

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

For data availability reasons, the analysis for this credit considered only ranked faculty at MIT. The methodology was as follows: MIT's Institutional Research group provided a document that lists all MIT faculty members alongside their departmental affiliation. For each researcher, the document also lists the keywords associated with the person's research area beyond those key words listed below. We searched these keywords for sustainability-related terms, such as sustain, green, climate, justice, renewable, energy, carbon, efficiency, pollution, environment, transportation, ecology, and/or urban. For researchers where one or more of these terms appeared, we reviewed the other keywords to confirm that the researcher is engaged in sustainability-related research. The uploaded file above contains a list of these identified researchers.

Optional Fields

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

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Additional documentation to support the submission:

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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:

For more information on sustainability research at MIT, see:
https://energy.mit.edu/research/
https://environmentalsolutions.mit.edu/research/
https://mitsloan.mit.edu/sustainability-initiative/our-research
https://jwafs.mit.edu/research
https://globalchange.mit.edu/research/focus-areas
https://chemistry.mit.edu/areas-of-research/energy-sustainability/
https://cee.mit.edu/research/
https://sscs.mit.edu/