Case Western Reserve University
AC-9: Research and Scholarship
| Status | Score | Responsible Party |
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Reporter |
Stephanie
Corbett University Farm Director Squire Valleevue and Valley Ridge Farms |
Total number of employees that conduct research:
Number of employees engaged in sustainability research:
Percentage of employees that conduct research that are engaged in sustainability research:
Total number of academic departments that include at least one employee who conducts research:
Number of academic departments that include at least one employee who conducts sustainability research:
Percentage of departments that conduct research that are engaged in sustainability research:
A copy of the inventory of the institution’s sustainability research (upload):
Inventory of the institution’s sustainability research:
A brief description of the methodology the institution followed to complete the research inventory:
The Office of Energy & Sustainability at CWRU has partnered with the Ohio Innovation Exchange (https://www.ohioinnovationexchange.org/ ) to compile a comprehensive research inventory. According to the Ohio Innovation Exchange platform, a total of 4,249 faculty members are actively engaged in research at CWRU. The identification of faculty members involved in sustainability-related research is based on specific research tags. Noteworthy sustainability-related tags employed for searching purposes include:
Agricultural Biotechnology
Agriculture, Land, and Farm Management
Anthropology
Atmospheric Sciences
Biological Adaptation
Business and Management
Chemical Engineering
Civil Engineering
Climate Change Processes
Crop and Pasture Production
Ecological Applications
Ecological Impacts of Climate Change
Ecology
Economic Development and Growth
Energy Generation, Conversion, and Storage Engineering
Environmental Biotechnology
Environmental Chemistry (incl. Atmospheric Chemistry)
Environmental Engineering
Environmental Science and Management
Environmental Sciences
Epidemiology
Fisheries Sciences
Food Sciences
Forestry Sciences
Geochemistry
Geology
Health and Community Services
Nutrition and Dietetics
Oceanography
Other Agricultural and Veterinary Sciences
Other Chemical Sciences
Other Earth Sciences
Other Environmental Sciences
Other Medical and Health Sciences
Physical Geography and Environmental Geoscience
Public Health and Health Services
Renewable Power and Energy Systems Engineering (excl. Solar Cells)
Sociology
Soil Sciences
Sustainable Agricultural Development
Urban and Regional Planning
Veterinary Sciences
Water Quality Engineering
Water Resources Engineering
Water Treatment Processes.
As a result, CWRU boasts a dedicated cadre of 1,011 professors actively contributing to sustainability research. In the final stage, a copy of the research inventory has been exported and uploaded to facilitate STARS reporting.
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