Overall Rating Gold
Overall Score 70.33
Liaison Neha Sood
Submission Date March 3, 2022

STARS v2.2

Rochester Institute of Technology
AC-9: Research and Scholarship

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 11.94 / 12.00 Enid Cardinal
Senior Sustainability Advisor to the President
Office of the President
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Part 1. Sustainability research

Total number of employees that conduct research:
559

Number of employees engaged in sustainability research:
182

Percentage of employees that conduct research that are engaged in sustainability research:
32.56

Part 2. Sustainability research by department

Total number of academic departments that include at least one employee who conducts research:
62

Number of academic departments that include at least one employee who conducts sustainability research:
46

Percentage of departments that conduct research that are engaged in sustainability research:
74.19

Research Inventory 

A copy of the inventory of the institution’s sustainability research (upload):
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:
A keyword search was utilized to sort through the university's research grant database as well as the faculty scholarship database for work occurring during the last 3 years. Keywords included: Environment, Ecology, Ecological, Sustainability, Sustainable, Social Responsibility, Socially responsible, Renewable, Energy, Social, Life cycle, Poverty, Community, Ecosystem, Climate change, Carbon, Waste, Water, Supply chain. Bios of the faculty and projects' abstracts from the list were then reviewed to ensure their research interests and goals did in fact relate to sustainability.

Optional Fields 

Website URL where information about the institution’s sustainability research is available:
Additional documentation to support the submission:
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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
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