Pennsylvania State University
AC-9: Research and Scholarship

Attached is a list of researchers including, for each, their departmental affiliation, website, and brief description of sustainability research area. A search using the pure.psu.edu

Using the Pure Elsevier data base (https://pure.psu.edu/) a search was done for research related to the UN's sustainable development goals. The database has a built in set of search terms. For example, for SDG 1 No Poverty terms were: "extreme poverty" OR "poverty alleviation" OR "poverty eradication" OR "poverty reduction" OR "international poverty line" OR "financial aid" OR "north south divide" OR "child labor" OR "social protection" OR "micro finance" OR "safety net" OR "economic resource" OR "food bank"
Titles were reviewed to ensure they represented the intent of this search. For example, the term "financial aid" may refer to research on operations or staffing of a financial aid office vs support for low income students.

We continue to work on how to effectively include creative accomplishments, as is done for promotion and tenure decisions, so that faculty from the arts were eligible for inclusion because sustainability research can result in creative accomplishments such as poetry, novels, plays, artwork, and shows.

Faculty in the arts were included in our counts for all researchers. although their work is likely not well counted here.

The total number of employees that conduct research was from a Fall 2021 headcount of all tenure line faculty, including assistant, associate and full professor. Non tenure line faculty includes research faculty: assistant, associate and full research professors. It does not include Lecturers or Instructors.

The total number of academic departments with at least one faculty member who conducts research was assumed to be the same as the total number of academic departments reported in PRE-5. The list of sustainability researchers' departmental affiliations was matched with this list to determine the number of departments with at least one faculty member who conducts sustainability research.