Overall Rating	Gold - expired
Overall Score	66.71
Liaison	Julie Cahillane
Submission Date	March 6, 2020

STARS v2.2

Northwestern University
AC-9: Research and Scholarship

Status	Score	Responsible Party
	3.57 / 12.00	Sarah Tulga Sustainability Program Coordinator Facilities

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Part 1. Sustainability research

Total number of employees that conduct research:

2,631

Number of employees engaged in sustainability research:

125

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

4.75

Part 2. Sustainability research by department

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

144

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:

20.83

Research Inventory

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

STARS_Research_Inventory_Northwestern_2020_j1Kt7Ew.xlsx

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:

Faculty were selected based on a one or a combination of of criteria:

Keyword search for “energy,” “sustainability,” or closely-related phrases on faculty pages

Member-affiliation and/or administrative appointments with relevant research centers, sponsored research proposals, or initiatives at the Office for Research- and/or school-level

Academic faculty teaching in a topic-relevant area

Past internal/external non-sponsored research project funding on energy- or sustainability-related projects

Optional Fields

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

http://isen.northwestern.edu/research/index.html

Additional documentation to support the submission:

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