Overall Rating Gold - expired
Overall Score 68.39
Liaison Sam Lubow
Submission Date June 29, 2012
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Stanford University
ER-16: Faculty Engaged in Sustainability Research

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 9.58 / 10.00 Jiffy Vermylen
Sustainability Coordinator
Sustainability & Energy Management / Office of Sustainability
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The number of faculty members engaged in sustainability research:
317

The total number of faculty members engaged in research:
1,324

Names and department affiliations of faculty engaged in sustainability research:

Please see attached documentation, which includes information from both the Woods Institute for the Environment and the Precourt Institute for Energy faculty research databases.


The website URL where the sustainability research inventory that includes the names and department affiliations of faculty engaged in sustainability research is posted :
A copy of the sustainability research inventory that includes the names and department affiliations of faculty engaged in sustainability research:
Brief descriptions of up to 4 recent notable accomplishments by faculty engaged in sustainability research, including names and department affiliations:

Please note that there are many examples of faculty accomplishments in the Sustainable Stanford: A Year in Review publication. Please see the section starting on page 116 of the following file:
http://sustainable.stanford.edu/sites/sem.stanford.edu/files/documents/oos_year_in_review_2010_2011.pdf


The website URL where information about sustainability research is available:
Data source(s) and notes about the submission:

Note that Stanford defined all tenure-track faculty as faculty engaged in research. Therefore the faculty breakdown is as follows:

Graduate School of Business: 103
SLAC National Accelerator Center: 36
School of Earth Sciences: 45
School of Education: 47
School of Engineering: 214
School of Humanities & Sciences: 509
School of Law: 45
School of Medicine: 325

TOTAL: 1324

Although emeritus faculty often have positions as fellows at various sustainability-related institutes on campus, they are excluded from the faculty count above and sustainability researcher count for this credit.


Note that Stanford defined all tenure-track faculty as faculty engaged in research. Therefore the faculty breakdown is as follows:

Graduate School of Business: 103
SLAC National Accelerator Center: 36
School of Earth Sciences: 45
School of Education: 47
School of Engineering: 214
School of Humanities & Sciences: 509
School of Law: 45
School of Medicine: 325

TOTAL: 1324

Although emeritus faculty often have positions as fellows at various sustainability-related institutes on campus, they are excluded from the faculty count above and sustainability researcher count for this credit.

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