Overall Rating Gold - expired
Overall Score 75.37
Liaison Suchi Daniels
Submission Date Jan. 14, 2014
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University of South Florida (Tampa)
ER-16: Faculty Engaged in Sustainability Research

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 10.00 / 10.00 Kebreab Ghebremichael
Director of Water Sustainability Concentration
Patel College of Global Sustainability
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The number of faculty members engaged in sustainability research:
774

The total number of faculty members engaged in research:
2,078

Names and department affiliations of faculty engaged in sustainability research:
The website URL where the sustainability research inventory that includes the names and department affiliations of faculty engaged in sustainability research is posted :
A copy of the sustainability research inventory that includes the names and department affiliations of faculty engaged in sustainability research:
Brief descriptions of up to 4 recent notable accomplishments by faculty engaged in sustainability research, including names and department affiliations:

1) Daniel Yeh (Civil and Environmental Engineering) was awarded a grant from the Gates Foundation to develop his invention of a human waste-to-energy digester;

2) Yogi Goswami (Chemical Engineering) developed a solar power array to provide additional electric energy the campus;

3) George Philippidis (Patel College of Global Sustainability) directs the development, scale-up, and commercialization of biomass and algae technologies for sustainable production of transportation fuels, renewable power, and value-added chemicals;

4) Delcie Durham (Mechanical Engineering) Established USF Graduate Diverse Student Success program. She focuses on environmentally benign design and manufacturing, with a particular emphasis on sustainable product realization through the total product lifecycle. Her research interests include exploring metrics for sustainable engineering design through analogies to the biological cell.


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