University of Richmond
AC-10: Support for Sustainability Research

The Richmond Guarantee is available to all students to apply for the summer after their freshman year until the summer after their junior year. The Guarantee provides adequate funding for housing and payment for unpaid internship or research positions. Students in the Biology, Environmental Studies, and Geography department often engage in sustainability research.

Includes a diversity of programs such as: the River City Project, FLC, Spider Solar Education and Research Fund.

The Spider Solar Education and Research fund provides financial incentive for students and faculty to engage in research related to sustainability on the campus.  An example of this in practice was the Physics of Renewable Energy Class that utilized the funds for researching nuclear power and taking students to visit a regional sub station. 

 As a Center for Sustainability Across the Curriculum, UR builds upon the success of the River City Project, UR’s sustainability focused faculty development workshop, through hosting an abridged one-day version of the two-day workshop each winter. The one-day workshop is open to university faculty, staff, and administrators from other colleges and universities in the region. The aim of the River City Project is to support the integration of sustainability across the curriculum by providing participants with a facilitated experience where they develop a shared understanding of sustainability, explore sustainability competencies and pedagogy, and enhance or develop their sustainability worldview. Faculty members engaged in the program are also encouraged and supported in their research endeavors in sustainability that relate to their scholarship. 

Please see the Sustainability Research Guide as linked in "Optional Fields". 

To encourage, recognize, and formalize contributions by faculty to academic programs in schools other than the one in which they hold their primary appointment, or between departments within a school, the University has developed guidelines by which the deans, President, and Provost of the University may confer secondary appointments upon those faculty for whom such appointments are recommended. All joint appointments are documented in memos of understanding, and include a specification of how the coordinators/chairs/deans of the interacting programs/departments/schools will contribute to the annual faculty evaluation process and/or the mid-course/tenure review.

 The Faculty Hub is a new campus-wide initiative designed to help faculty: Reflect on pedagogical practices and experiment with ways of making teaching effective for all learners; Connect with other faculty to share scholarship and teaching interests and approaches; Learn and incorporate new tools for pedagogy and scholarship, delivered in ways that consider the demands on faculty time; Connect with campus partners in ways that help advance teaching and scholarship goals; Engage in programming that advances the professional development of faculty at different career stages; Build community among the faculty. Workshops that support interdisciplinary, transdisciplinary and multi-disciplinary research are offered.

https://libguides.richmond.edu/sustainability

https://as.richmond.edu/student-research/symposium/index.html

https://facultyhub.richmond.edu/

https://sustainability.richmond.edu/academics/project.html