Overall Rating Silver - expired
Overall Score 60.83
Liaison Parker Long
Submission Date March 2, 2018
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Virginia Commonwealth University
AC-9: Research and Scholarship

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 7.78 / 12.00 Christine Long
Intern
The Office of Sustainability
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Total number of the institution’s faculty and/or staff that are engaged in research (headcount):
806

Number of the institution’s faculty and/or staff that are engaged in sustainability research (headcount):
94

Percentage of the institution's faculty and staff researchers that are engaged in sustainability research :
11.66

Total number of academic departments (or the equivalent) that include at least one faculty or staff member that conducts research:
118

Number of academic departments (or the equivalent) that include at least one faculty or staff member that conducts sustainability research:
46

Percentage of research-producing departments that are engaged in sustainability research:
38.98

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:
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The institution’s inventory of its sustainability research that includes names and department affiliations of faculty and staff engaged in sustainability research:

John E. Anderson - Environmental Studies
Danail Bonchev, Ph.D. Bioinformatics
Gary Atkinson – Electrical Engineering
Edward Crawford, Ph.D.-River Ecology
Jayasimha Atulasimha – Mechanical Engineering
Helen Ruth-Aspaas - Urban & Regional Planning
Bonnie Brown - Department of Biology
Paul Bukaveckas - Environmental Studies
Kevin A. Caillouet - Environmental Studies
Everett Carpenter - Inorganic & Materials Chemistry
Daniel Carr – Biology
Xueming Chen – Urban & Regional Planning
Jennifer Ciminelli - Environmental Studies
Arif Sikder, Ph.D. - Geochemistry
Allison Johnson, Ph.D.-Environmental Studies
Vickie S. Connors - Environmental Studies
Jody Davis – Psychology
Peter L. deFur - Environmental Studies
Rodney J. Dyer - VCU Rice Center for Environmental Life Sciences
Bart Paxton-Avian ecology
Hani El-Kaderi – Inorganic & Materials Chemistry
Linda Fernandez - Environmental Studies & Economics
Stephen Fong – Chemical Engineering
Jeffrey Elhai- Biology
Gregory Garman - Environmental Studies
Christopher Gough - Biology
Megan Gough - Urban & Regional Planning
Kimberly Guthrie – Fashion Design & Fashion Merchandising
Purusottam Jena - Physics
Vojislav Kecman – Computer Science
Shiv Kanna – Physics
Brian Verrelli, Ph.D.- Population ecology
Sama Bilbao y Leon – Nuclear Engineering
Jason Levy - Homeland Security & Emergency Preparedness
Rima Franklin, Ph.D. Microbial ecology
Jamie Mahoney – Graphic Design
S. Leigh McCallister - Environmental Studies
Stephen P. McIninch - Environmental Studies
Jim McLeskey - Chemical Engineering
Karla Mossi – Mechanical Engineering
Ramana Pidaparti - Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering
Damian Pitt - Urban & Regional Planning
Wang Qian - Physics
Sun Qiang – Physics
Rose Regni - Fashion Design & Fashion Merchandising
Victor Chen, Ph.D.-Urban sociology
Ulises Reveles - Physics
Vijay A. Satyal - Environmental Studies
Avrum Shriar - Urban & Regional Studies
Arif Sikder - Environmental Studies
Leonard A. Smock - VCU Rice Center for Environmental Life Sciences
I-Shian Suen – Urban & Regional Studies
Vishnu Sundaresan – Mechanical Engineering
Linda Tee - Fashion Design & Fashion Merchandising
Robert E. Ulanowicz - Environmental Studies
R. Leonard Vance - Environmental Studies
Robert Ventura - Interior Design
Catherine Viverette - Environmental Studies
Bryan D. Watts - Environmental Studies
Camden Whitehead - Interior Design
Van Wood - School of Business
Kenneth Wynne – Chemical Engineering
Don Young - Biological Complexity
Wei Zhang - Electrical and Computer Engineering
Regina Bundy – VCU School of Education: Teaching and Learning
Mohammad G. Rabbani, Ph.D. – VCU Department of Chemistry
Michael Fine, Ph.D.-Environmental Chemistry
Shiv Khanna – VCU Department of Physics
Benjamin Evans – VCU Center on Human Needs
Steven Woolf – VCU Center on Human Needs
Amber Haley – VCU Center on Human Needs
Tarynn M. Witten, Ph.D.-Department of Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies
Emily Zimmerman – VCU Center on Human Needs
Deirdre Condit – Wilder School of Government and Public Affairs
John Powers – History
Christina Lindholm – School of the Arts
Luiz Shozo Ozaki, Ph.D.-Microbiology
Randolph Barker – Business Management
Faye Prichard – Education
Salvatore Agosta, Ph.D. Evolutionary ecology
Will Shuart-Environmental data management
Myrna G. Serrano, Ph.D.-Ecology
Deborah Cowles - Marketing
Gregory Greenhalgh - Sports Leadership
Karen Kester - Evolutionary Ecology
Dr. Yuichi Motai, Dr. Zhifang Wang-Electrical Engineering
Derek Johnson, Ph.D. Population and invasion biology
Alenka Luzar, Ph.D.- Biophysics
Peter Uetz, Ph.D. - Environmental Studies
J. Paul Brooks, Ph.D. Environmental studies
Dr. James Vonesh- Ecology
Lesley Bulluck, Ph.D.-Avian Ecology
Daniel McGarvey, Ph.D.-Macroecology
Julie Zinnert, Ph.D. Plant ecophysiology and remote sensing
Leigh McCallister, Ph.D.-marine biogeochemistry


A brief description of the methodology the institution followed to complete the research inventory (including the types of faculty and staff included as researchers):

This inventory was completed with the help of the Sustainability Academic Leadership Team by identifying departments that may have sustainability research and reaching out to them to determine if any research meets the criteria and identifying the individuals doing research.


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