University of Wisconsin-River Falls
AC-9: Research and Scholarship

See attached file.

UWRF does not centrally track faculty research so a comprehensive inventory is unknown. For the purposes of completing this report, we created tracking spreadsheets for each academic department. Department chairs were tasked with checking with all employees and submitting data on research. We then cross reference this data with the data available from the Office of Undergraduate Research, Scholarly, and Creative Activity (URSCA). The URSCA office tracks student research through their grant process. Through this process, the faculty mentors involved in research are identified. The attached excel workbook provides a comprehensive list of sustainability related research. We get the above numbers from the spreadsheet. We extrapolate each faculty/staff member involved in research so we do not double count them or their departments, thus providing an accurate assessment of the number of employees involved in research as well as which ones are more specifically involved in sustainability research.

We are an institutions with minimal to moderate research activity. Not all departments conduct research. We reviewed all research conducted on campus during the reporting timeframe and included any departments where research occurred.