Overall Rating Gold - expired
Overall Score 69.87
Liaison Kevin Kirsche
Submission Date June 22, 2021

STARS v2.2

University of Georgia
AC-9: Research and Scholarship

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 12.00 / 12.00 Nate Shear
Sustainability Metrics Intern
Office of Sustainability
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Part 1. Sustainability research

Total number of employees that conduct research:
1,966

Number of employees engaged in sustainability research:
1,040

Percentage of employees that conduct research that are engaged in sustainability research:
52.90

Part 2. Sustainability research by department

Total number of academic departments that include at least one employee who conducts research:
23

Number of academic departments that include at least one employee who conducts sustainability research:
21

Percentage of departments that conduct research that are engaged in sustainability research:
91.30

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:
-Searched UGA Elements research database for research grants by user. The following key terms were used to designate a grant as sustainability-related research: Carbon, Climate Change, Compost, Conserv-, Ecolog-, Ecosystem, Emissions, Energy, Environ, Food System, Forest, Species, Green-, Hydrology, Natural Resource, Social Justice, Sustain-, Urban Agriculture, Urban Design, Waste, Water, Habitat, Diversity, Recyl-, and CO2
-Listed these researchers, delete those who, based on their grants/project descriptions are not sustainability-related

Optional Fields 

Website URL where information about the institution’s sustainability research is available:
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Additional documentation to support the submission:
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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
UGA Elements data report for Research Grants during 2019

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