Overall Rating	Gold
Overall Score	65.17
Liaison	Taylor Smith
Submission Date	July 26, 2022

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University of Maryland, Baltimore County
AC-9: Research and Scholarship

Status	Score	Responsible Party
	8.58 / 12.00

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Part 1. Sustainability research

Total number of employees that conduct research:

110

Number of employees engaged in sustainability research:

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

59.09

Part 2. Sustainability research by department

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

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

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

32.31

Research Inventory

A copy of the inventory of the institution’s sustainability research (upload):

UMBc_research_pub.xlsx

Inventory of the institution’s sustainability research:

Please see attached

A brief description of the methodology the institution followed to complete the research inventory:

Methodology: The sustainability professional, or their designee, reviews the current University sponsored research activities and uses the keywords/phrases in Table 1 to identity research content related to sustainability.
Table 1: Keywords/phrases to include in search
Adaptation
Change
Circular Economy
Clean Air
Clean Water
Climate Change
Conservation
Eco
Ecology
Energy
Environment / Environmental
Green
Justice
Local
Mitigation
Natural Systems
Pollution
Recycling
Regulations
Renewable
Resilience
Restorative
Social
Solar
Sustainability/ Sustainable
Systems/Systems Thinking
Wetland
Wind

Optional Fields

Website URL where information about the institution’s sustainability research is available:

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