New York University
AC-9: Research and Scholarship

NYU does not maintain a central database of all research of NYU faculty/staff. Therefore, the Office of Sustainability developed the following methodology to approximate the amount of sustainability research. First, a search was performed of the Scopus citation database of the last 5 years of published research with an NYU author. This excluded authors from NYU Langone, NYU Shanghai, and NYU Abu Dhabi, which are outside the institutional boundary of this submission. The results were then filtered to determine the number of unique NYU authors from the last 5 years - this yielded 9,452 unique authors - this was taken to be a proxy for the number of NYU faculty performing research (of the last 5 years). To determine the number of faculty performing sustainability-related research, a set of keywords (listed below) were used to further narrow the search results of the last 5 years. This yielded 1,524 unique authors. The ratio of the two indicates that roughly 16% of NYU faculty are performing sustainability-related research. To determine the number of departments with at least one faculty member performing research, the list of 1,524 unique authors was processed manually to determine the departments for each faculty member. Due to the size of the list and the amount of time needed to manually process, a random sample of 10% was selected and the departments of those faculty-members were found. This list was supplemented by a manual search of various departments' faculty profiles. This yielded 70 unique departments of NYU's 109 research-conducting departments. In the attached inventory, the Departments sheet lists all NYU departments performing research and at least one faculty member from each department performing Sustainability Research. These keywords were selected based on a review of other STARS AC-9 Submissions, library sustainability research guides, and NYU subject matter experts. The keywords are listed below. environment water nutrition ethic poverty pollut consumption diversity ecolog justice climate change conservation equality resilien resources inequality sustainab ecosystem energy efficiency wellbeing waste equity earth carbon dioxide agriculture human rights climatolog marine emissions biodiversity well-being sea level greenhouse farm empowerment energy conservation global warming flood renewable recycl social responsibility air quality drought indigen natural resources energy policy food security fossil fuel sanitation electric vehicle solar energy hunger population growth scarc industrialization wind energy carbon footprint endangered urban agriculture deforestation green chemistry aborigin geothermal circular economy human settlements reuse animal rights green building ice cap long-term impact net zero organic agriculture organic farm social equity carbon neutral desertification ecotour energy reform green energy green power low impact minimum wage net-zero tidal energy triple bottom line urban farm net-zero Please note that truncated keywords (e.g. “recycl”) were included to capture multiple forms of a word (e.g. “recycle”, “recycling”).

The number of departments in Part 2 is less than NYU's total number of departments because not every department conducts research.