Overall Rating Gold
Overall Score 65.73
Liaison Gary Cocke
Submission Date May 11, 2023

STARS v2.2

The University of Texas at Dallas
AC-9: Research and Scholarship

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 12.00 / 12.00 Gary Cocke
Sustainability Director
Office of Sustainability
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Part 1. Sustainability research

Total number of employees that conduct research:
330

Number of employees engaged in sustainability research:
135

Percentage of employees that conduct research that are engaged in sustainability research:
40.91

Part 2. Sustainability research by department

Total number of academic departments that include at least one employee who conducts research:
34

Number of academic departments that include at least one employee who conducts sustainability research:
34

Percentage of departments that conduct research that are engaged in sustainability research:
100

Research Inventory 

A copy of the inventory of the institution’s sustainability research (upload):
Inventory of the institution’s sustainability research:
Please see attached inventory

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

The Office of Sustainability audited research profiles at the link posted below to identify research with significant relation to the 17 SDGs. The list of identified researchers was then provided to the Dean of each college for edits. The process resulted in 135 researchers.

A data request for total researchers to the Research Director in the Office of Research and Innovation - identifying 330 researchers.

Optional Fields 

Website URL where information about the institution’s sustainability research is available:
Additional documentation to support the submission:
Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
The total number of researchers was identified by a data request in 2022 rather than counting total faculty profiles as in the 2019 report.

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