Overall Rating	Gold
Overall Score	73.37
Liaison	Olivia Herron
Submission Date	Feb. 28, 2022

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Miami University
AC-9: Research and Scholarship

Status	Score	Responsible Party
	12.00 / 12.00	Adam Sizemore Director of Sustainability Physical Facilities Department

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Part 1. Sustainability research

Total number of employees that conduct research:

347

Number of employees engaged in sustainability research:

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

28.24

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:

78.79

Research Inventory

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

SustainabilityResearchersFY20-22_rev.xlsx

Inventory of the institution’s sustainability research:

Inventory is attached.

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

The Associate Provost of Research and Graduate School Dean searched sustainability research in Faculty180, Miami's faculty activity reporting system. Because that system is no longer in use, the Assistant Director of Proposal Development updated the information using Miami's Cayuse grant proposal tracking.

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

http://miamioh.edu/about-miami/sustainability/

Additional documentation to support the submission:

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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:

Highlights of Miami's sustainability research include the following:

Craig Williamson (Biology) works with the Global Change Limnology Lab provides service to the U.N. Environment Programme Environmental Effects Assessment Panel

Jessica McCarty (Geography) conducts research on agriculture and food security, land cover change, climate change, and natural resources management.

Mike Vanni (Biology), Maria Gonzalez (Biology) and William Renwick (Geography) run an NSF funded Long-term Research in Environmental Biology (LTREB) field site near the university.

Tom Crist (Biology) researches the impacts of environmental change on ecosystems services.

Contact - Amy Cooper - standeae@MiamiOH.edu