Overall Rating Silver - expired
Overall Score 50.80
Liaison Aldo Pierini
Submission Date March 27, 2018
Executive Letter Download

STARS v2.1

Villanova University
AC-9: Research and Scholarship

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 8.67 / 12.00
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Part 1 

Total number of the institution’s faculty and/or staff that are engaged in research (headcount):
68

Number of the institution’s faculty and/or staff that are engaged in sustainability research (headcount):
15

Percentage of the institution's faculty and staff researchers that are engaged in sustainability research :
22.06

Part 2 

Total number of academic departments (or the equivalent) that include at least one faculty or staff member that conducts research:
24

Number of academic departments (or the equivalent) that include at least one faculty or staff member that conducts sustainability research:
8

Percentage of research-producing departments that are engaged in sustainability research:
33.33

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:
The institution’s inventory of its sustainability research that includes names and department affiliations of faculty and staff engaged in sustainability research:
Aaron Wemhoff, Dept of Mechanical Engineering Alfonso Ortega, Dept of Mechanical Engineering Amy Fleischer; Dept of Mechanical Engineering Andrea Welker, Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering Bridget Wadzuk, Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering John Komlos, Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering Leslie Myers McCarthy; Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering Robert Traver, Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Director VACSE Seri Park; Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering Kristin Sample-Lord, Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering Charles Coe, Dept of Chemical Engineering William Kelly, Dept of Chemical Engineering Pritpal Singh, Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering Ruth McDermott-Levy, Nursing School Kelman Wieder, Dept of Biology, Assistant Vice President for Research and Strategic Initiatives

A brief description of the methodology the institution followed to complete the research inventory (including the types of faculty and staff included as researchers):
The Research Office sent a master list of all faculty that receive outside grants for research. Emails were sent out to some department chairs to identify those who had done sustainability research. The list from the Research Office does not reflect the TOTAL faculty doing research in the University.

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