Overall Rating Silver - expired
Overall Score 49.75
Liaison Keaton Schrank
Submission Date April 26, 2016
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STARS v2.0

Westminster University - Utah
AC-9: Academic Research

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 7.79 / 12.00 Kate Puddy
Sustainability Fellow
Environmental Center
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Number of the institution’s faculty and/or staff engaged in sustainability research:
22

Total number of the institution’s faculty and/or staff engaged in research:
162

Number of academic departments (or the equivalent) that include at least one faculty or staff member that conducts sustainability research:
18

The total number of academic departments (or the equivalent) that conduct research:
61

A copy of the sustainability research inventory that includes the names and department affiliations of faculty and staff engaged in sustainability research:
Names and department affiliations of faculty and staff engaged in sustainability research:
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A brief description of the methodology the institution followed to complete the research inventory:

There were several avenues used to complete the research inventory. First off, a survey was sent out to all Westminster College faculty inquiring about their research. Then e-mails were sent to all the faculty and staff that were included in our last STARS Research section. Lastly, one of the students attended a faculty meeting, and spoke about STARS and the research credit. Following the meeting, an e-mail was sent out with the same survey as before.


A brief description of notable accomplishments during the previous three years by faculty and/or staff engaged in sustainability research:


Sustainable Urban Agriculture - Partnering with another University in the Chicago area with research aims to determine crops that are winners and losers in rural peri-urban and urban settings.

Examining relationships between attitudes toward environmental issues and behavior, and methods for modeling such relationships that account for various variables that influence environmental attitude-behavior relations.

Interdisciplinary research project with the Bonneville Salt Flats is the focus which requires us to work with members from the mining community, racing community, government officials, geologists, and hydrologists to better understand this unique and dynamic ecosystem as well as the human impacts.

Verifying a new method to measure PAH contamination in natural environments. Proving how a certain food is all natural or organic and has not been adulterated in any fashion.

Water and Sanitation in India - Community-based approach

Integrated Reporting - a new model of financial reporting that requires companies to report issues such as environment impact, employee safety, and corporate citizenship, in additional to financial performance. The model has been gaining momentum around the world, but is not yet required in the USA.


The website URL where information about sustainability research is available:
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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
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