Overall Rating Gold
Overall Score 73.25
Liaison Miriam Keep
Submission Date Feb. 25, 2022

STARS v2.2

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
AC-9: Research and Scholarship

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 10.62 / 12.00 Meredith Moore
Sustainability Programs Coordinator
Institute for Sustainability, Energy, and Environment
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Part 1. Sustainability research

Total number of employees that conduct research:
2,859

Number of employees engaged in sustainability research:
1,579

Percentage of employees that conduct research that are engaged in sustainability research:
55.23

Part 2. Sustainability research by department

Total number of academic departments that include at least one employee who conducts research:
109

Number of academic departments that include at least one employee who conducts sustainability research:
63

Percentage of departments that conduct research that are engaged in sustainability research:
57.80

Research Inventory 

A copy of the inventory of the institution’s sustainability research (upload):
Inventory of the institution’s sustainability research:
Faculty engaged in sustainability research come from many different departments on campus. Data gathered from web resource for Energy and Water scholars at Illinois (http://sustainability.illinois.edu/research.html) as well as Experts.illinois.edu.

A brief description of the methodology the institution followed to complete the research inventory:
Research keywords were used to filter research profiles on experts.illinois.edu included: sustainability, renewable, solar, nuclear, geothermal, bioenergy, biofuels, wastewater, nutrient management, soil management, phosphorus cycling, carbon, nitrogen

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:
Full profile list included here: https://experts.illinois.edu/en/searchAll/advanced/?searchByRadioGroup=PartOfNameOrTitle&searchBy=PartOfNameOrTitle&allThese=&exactPhrase=&or=sustainability%2C+renewable%2C+solar%2C+nuclear%2C+geothermal%2C+bioenergy%2C+biofuels%2C+wastewater%2C+nutrient+management%2C+soil+management%2C+phosphorus+cycling%2C+carbon%2C+nitrogen&minus=&family=persons&doSearch=Search&slowScroll=true

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