Overall Rating Gold - expired
Overall Score 66.18
Liaison Michelle Patterson
Submission Date March 2, 2018
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STARS v2.1

Washington University in St. Louis
AC-9: Research and Scholarship

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 10.32 / 12.00 Chad Henry
Operations Manager
International Center for Advanced Renewable Energy and Sustainability (I-CARES)
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Part 1 

Total number of the institution’s faculty and/or staff that are engaged in research (headcount):
1,370

Number of the institution’s faculty and/or staff that are engaged in sustainability research (headcount):
190

Percentage of the institution's faculty and staff researchers that are engaged in sustainability research :
13.87

Part 2 

Total number of academic departments (or the equivalent) that include at least one faculty or staff member that conducts research:
52

Number of academic departments (or the equivalent) that include at least one faculty or staff member that conducts sustainability research:
31

Percentage of research-producing departments that are engaged in sustainability research:
59.62

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:
School of Law Robert R. Kuehn Daniel Mandelker Olin Business School Lamar Pierce Andrew Knight Fuqiang Zhang School of Social Work Christine Ekenga Shanta Pandey Carolyn Lesorogol Rodrigo Reis Ross Brownson Debra Haire-Joshu Lora Iannotti Jack Kirkland Matt Kreuter Michael Sherraden Mark Rank Amy Eyler SEAS, BME Mark Anastasio SEAS, Comp Sci Michael Brent Jeremy Buhler Roger Chamberlain Weixiong Zhang Alvitta Ottley Roman Garnett Viktor Gruev Raj Jain Chenyang Lu William Yeoh SEAS, ESE Matthew Lew Shantanu Chakrabartty Hiro Mukai Heniz Schaettler Xuan 'Silvia' Zhang Arye Nehorai Lan Yang SEAS, Mechanical Ramesh Agarwal Katharine Flores Mark Jakiela Patricia Weisensee Rohan Mishra Mark Meacham Damena Agonafer Parag Banerjee Srikanth Singamaneni Shankar Sastry SEAS, EECE Pratim Biswas Richard Axelbaum Rajan Chakrabarty Kimberly Parker Peng Bai Rudolf Husar Elijah Thimsen Jay Turner Brent Williams John Fortner Dan Giammar Young-Shin Jun Cynthia Lo Marcus Foston Tae Seok Moon Vijay Ramani Yinjie Tang Fuzhong Zhang Milorad Dudukovic John Gleaves Paighat Ramachandran A&S, Anthropology TR Kidder Sarah Baitzel Peter Benson Geoff Childs Talia Dan-Cohen Michael Frachetti David Freidel Gayle Fritz Bret Gustafson Xinyi Liu Fiona Marshall Shanti Parisk Jane Phillips-Conroy E.A. Quinn Crickette Sanz Glenn Stone Robert Sussman Kedron Thomas A&S, Art History Ila Sheren A&S, Biology Roger Beachy Robert Blankenship Joshua Blodgett Arpita Bose Carlos Botero Ran Dixit Memory Elvin-Lewis David Queller Elizabeth Haswell Joe Jez Barbara Kunkel Robert Kranz Allan Larson Scott Mangan Jonathan Myers Kenneth Olson Himadri Pakrasi Ralph Quatrano Jonathan Losos Barbara Schaal Lucia Strader Richard Vierstra Rachel Penczykowski A&S, Chemistry William Buhro Sophia Hayes Dewey Holten Richard Loomis Livic Mirica Lee Sabotka Jacob Schaeffer Julio D'Arcy Michael Gross Richard Mabbs Gary Patti Bryce Sadtler A&S, Earth and Planetary Sciences Ray Arvidson Alexander Bradley Jeffrey Catalano Robet Criss Robery Dymek David Fike Anne Hofmeister Michael Krawczynski Jennifer Smith William H. Smith Doug Wiens Michael Wysession Kun Wang Bronwen Konecky A&S, Economics Marcus Berliant Bruce Peterson Sukkoo Kim A&S, Education William Tate Carol Camp Yeakey A&S, History Corinna Treitel Nancy Reynolds A&S, Political Science William Lowry Itai Sened Michael Bechtel Andrew Sobel A&S, Sociology Tim Bartley A&S, Physics Mark S. Conradi Henric Krawczynski Ken Kelton Li Yang Jonathan Katz Sam Fox School Chandler Ahrens Rod Barnett Catalina Freixas Bob Hansman Patty Heyda John Hoal Derek Hoeferlin Sung Ho Kim Seng Kuan Bruce Lindsey Igor Marjanovic Eric Mumford Natalie Yates Hongxi Yin Linda Samuels Robin VerHage-Abrams Jesse Vogler Heather Woofter Mary Ruppoert-Stroescu WUSM, Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology Yuan-Chan Tai Robert Mach WUSM, Pathology & Immunology Gautam Dantas WUSM, Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics Wayne Barnes WUSM, Genetics Susan Dutcher WUSM, Internal Medicine Mario Castro Kenneth Schechtman Bradley Evanoff Stephen Liang Luigi Fontana William Powderly Cynthia Wichelman Rebecca Chibnall WUSM, molecular Microbiology Tamara Doering WUSM, Neurology Brad Racette WUSM, Neuroscience James Fitzpatrick WUSM, Obstetrics and Gynecology Amber Cooper WUSM, Orthopaedic Surgery Chris McAndrew WUSM, Psychiatry John Constantino WUSM, Surgery Diana C. Parra Perez

A brief description of the methodology the institution followed to complete the research inventory (including the types of faculty and staff included as researchers):
Production of the University’s sustainability research inventory began with an examination of the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research’s Annual Report. The report was reviewed to broadly classify research at the University. It was quickly noted that the report under-reported total research at the University by narrowly focusing on research projects that received external funding support via grants and contracts in fiscal year. Since not all disciplines rely equally on external funding to conduct research it was decided that a more individual review of research was required to fully identify sustainability research, especially across the academic departments outside the medical center. Since research centers and other core infrastructure supports are very important to the University’s research enterprise the next step was to identify those centers that conducted sustainability research to identify faculty actively engaged in sustainability research projects. University-wide centers identified to be active in sustainability research include: - International Center for Energy, Environment and Sustainability - Consortium for Clean Coal Utilization - McDonnell Academy Global Energy and Environment Partnership - Center for Genome Studies - Institute for Public Health - Tyson Research Center Reviewing these sites was helpful to identify critical masses of sustainability of research and to provide parameters for the more detailed inventory steps to be undertaken. The final step in the inventory included a thorough review of each academic department’s faculty roster to identify tenure and tenure-track faculty engaged in sustainability research. This was assessed through faculty members’ identified research areas, description of lab research projects, recent publications and other such descriptions. Results were cross-checked against the research listings of the sustainability activities of the identified research centers and through advanced searches of University and department websites. Faculty numbers were obtained through institutional information for tenured and tenure-track faculty provided through the institutional data webpage on the Provost's website.

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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
International Center for Advanced Renewable Energy and Sustainability (http://icares.wustl.edu/Pages/Home.aspx) Consortium for Clean Coal Utilization (http://cccu.wustl.edu/) McDonnell Academy Global Energy and Environment Partnership (http://mageep.wustl.edu/) Center for Genome Studies (http://genome.wustl.edu/) Institute for Public Health (http://publichealth.wustl.edu/)

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