Overall Rating Gold - expired
Overall Score 69.47
Liaison Sally DeLeon
Submission Date Feb. 28, 2019
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STARS v2.1

University of Maryland, College Park
AC-9: Research and Scholarship

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 11.21 / 12.00 Sally DeLeon
Acting Manager
Environmental Safety, Sustainability and Risk
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Total number of the institution’s faculty and/or staff that are engaged in research (headcount):
1,172

Number of the institution’s faculty and/or staff that are engaged in sustainability research (headcount):
222

Percentage of the institution's faculty and staff researchers that are engaged in sustainability research :
18.94

Total number of academic departments (or the equivalent) that include at least one faculty or staff member that conducts research:
63

Number of academic departments (or the equivalent) that include at least one faculty or staff member that conducts sustainability research:
41

Percentage of research-producing departments that are engaged in sustainability research:
65.08

A copy of the institution’s inventory of its sustainability research that includes names and department affiliations of faculty and staff engaged in sustainability research:
The institution’s inventory of its sustainability research that includes names and department affiliations of faculty and staff engaged in sustainability research:
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A brief description of the methodology the institution followed to complete the research inventory (including the types of faculty and staff included as researchers):

Student interns and Office of Sustainability Staff completed training through the Office of Research Administration and then keyword searched the university's database of sponsored research to identify principal investigators who conduct sustainability research. Keywords were adapted from lists shared by other universities who used a keyword search method, expanded and reorganized across the UN's Sustainable Development Goals. The keywords were shared with staff from UMD's Global Sustainability Institute to help ensure that they were appropriate choices. Total number of the institution's faculty and staff that are engaged in research is based on the total number of faculty included as Lead Investigators in the database of sponsored research in CY 2018.


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