Overall Rating Silver - expired
Overall Score 52.49
Liaison Caitlin McLennan
Submission Date Nov. 1, 2016
Executive Letter Download

STARS v2.1

Utah State University
AC-9: Research and Scholarship

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 8.79 / 12.00 Alexi Lamm
Sustainability Coordinator
Facilities
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Part 1 

Total number of the institution’s faculty and/or staff that are engaged in research (headcount):
515

Number of the institution’s faculty and/or staff that are engaged in sustainability research (headcount):
72

Percentage of the institution's faculty and staff researchers that are engaged in sustainability research :
13.98

Part 2 

Total number of academic departments (or the equivalent) that include at least one faculty or staff member that conducts research:
55

Number of academic departments (or the equivalent) that include at least one faculty or staff member that conducts sustainability research:
22

Percentage of research-producing departments that are engaged in sustainability research:
40

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:
15 Research STARS.xlsx

The institution’s inventory of its sustainability research that includes names and department affiliations of faculty and staff engaged in sustainability research:
Researchers involved in sustainability research Astrid JACOBSON BO YANG Bradley KROPP Brent BLACK Charles HAWKINS Charles MILLER Christopher MONZ Christopher NEALE Dallas HANKS Darren MCAVOY David ANDERSON David BYERS David COPPOCK DAVID E. ROSENBERG David HOLE David TARBOTON Deevon BAILEY Don ALBRECHT Donald MCMAHON Douglas JACKSON-SMITH Earl CREECH Foster AGBLEVOR Grant CARDON Heng BAN Herbert C. CARLSON James EVANS Jason QUINN Jeanette NORTON Jeffery HORSBURGH Jennifer REEVE Jerry GOODSPEED Joanna ENDTER-WADA John SCHMIDT John SHERVAIS Judith SIMS Keith MOTT Kelly KOPP Kenneth WHITE Kevin HEASLIP Kris MARSH Kynda R. CURTIS Lance SEEFELDT Lise AUBRY Marc MAGUIRE Marc MANSFIELD Mark BRUNSON Marvin HALLING Michael JENKINS Michael TAYLOR Michelle BAKER Nancy MESNER Patrick BELMONT Paul JOHNSON Peggy PETRZELKA Peter ADLER Randal MARTIN Randy SIMMONS Regan ZANE Richard PERALTA ROBERT BEHUNIN Robert NEWHALL Robert RAMSEY Ronald SIMS Roslynn BRAIN Sarah NULL Scott JONES Seth LYMAN SHUJUAN LI Tao Titus YUAN Teryl ROPER Thomas EDWARDS Yujie SUN Departments involved in sustainability research DPCASS: MRC-CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC & SPACE SCIENCES DPBIOL: BIOLOGY DPENSO: ENVIRONMENT & SOCIETY DPEMAE: MECHANICAL & AEROSPACE ENGINEERING DPVPSV: VICE PRESIDENT - COMMERCIALIZATION & REGIONAL DEV. DPUWRL: MRC-UTAH WATER RESEARCH LABORATORY DPFRWS: WILDLAND RESOURCES DPAWER: WATERSHED SCIENCES DPAPSB: PLANTS, SOILS, & CLIMATE DPECEE: CIVIL & ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING DPCOOP: VICE PRESIDENT - EXTENSION DPCHEM: CHEMISTRY & BIOCHEMISTRY DPGEOL: GEOLOGY DPEBIE: BIOLOGICAL ENGINEERING DPWRDC: WESTERN RURAL DEVELOPMENT CENTER DPAGNF: NUTRITION, DIETETICS AND FOOD SCIENCES DPENSO: ENVIRONMENT & SOCIETY DPEECE: ELECTRICAL & COMPUTER ENGINEERING DPSSWA: SOCIOLOGY, SOCIAL WORK & ANTHROPOLOGY DPLAEP: LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE & ENVRONMENTAL PLANNING DPVPAD: VICE PRESIDENT - BUSINESS & FINANCE DPEFSN: NORTHERN REGION

A brief description of the methodology the institution followed to complete the research inventory (including the types of faculty and staff included as researchers):
We requested a list of all research funded in the 2014-2015 financial year with descriptions. A student intern reviewed all research on the list and identified sustainability-related research.

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:
The number of departments conducting research exceeds the number of academic departments listed in IC-3 because there are research divisions on campus that are not academic departments and do not directly correspond to academic departments. Both the identified departments conducting research and the subset of departments conducting sustainability research are in the attached spreadsheet.

The information presented here is self-reported. While AASHE staff review portions of all STARS reports and institutions are welcome to seek additional forms of review, the data in STARS reports are not verified by AASHE. If you believe any of this information is erroneous or inconsistent with credit criteria, please review the process for inquiring about the information reported by an institution or simply email your inquiry to stars@aashe.org.