Overall Rating	Gold - expired
Overall Score	66.00
Liaison	Jonna Korpi
Submission Date	Nov. 4, 2019
Executive Letter	Download

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University of Minnesota, Duluth
AC-9: Research and Scholarship

Status	Score	Responsible Party
	12.00 / 12.00	Mindy Granley Sustainability Director UMD Office of Sustainability

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Part 1

Total number of the institution’s faculty and/or staff that are engaged in research (headcount):

415

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

119

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

28.67

Part 2

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

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

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

87.10

Research Inventory

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:

UMD_SustainabilityResearch2019.pdf

The institution’s inventory of its sustainability research that includes names and department affiliations of faculty and staff engaged in sustainability research:

Please see attached inventory for full list. Total Faculty: 415 Faculty in Sustainability Research: 119 Total Departments: 31 Departments in Sustainability Research: 27

A brief description of the methodology the institution followed to complete the research inventory (including the types of faculty and staff included as researchers):

There were many sources of data reviewed for this inventory, including: Works query for past 3 years used to ID faculty doing sustainability research. Julie Etterson - IonE Faculty Lead, IonE grants to UMD on sustainability Ashyln Teather- grad student, investigated Natural Resources Research Institute and Sea Grant research staff and projects Erik Brown - AVC of Research Mindy Granley - Sustainability Director (assembled data and response)

Optional Fields

The website URL where information about the programs or initiatives is available:

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Additional documentation to support the submission:

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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:

Of the $85 million in research dollars that UMD averages, this year $25 million in projects ($14 million on campus and $9.5 million at the Natural Resources Research Institute) yhsy that directly related to and address sustainability issues. In addition, research projects from within a broad array of disciplines within our 5 colleges (Science, Engineering, Business and Economics, Arts, Education and Human Services, and Liberal Arts) help further knowledge of environmental, economic, or social systems.