Overall Rating Silver - expired
Overall Score 49.91
Liaison Tony Gillund
Submission Date May 9, 2017
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The Ohio State University at Marion
AC-9: Research and Scholarship

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 4.84 / 12.00 Leslie Beyer-Hermsen
Assistant Dean
Marion Campus
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Total number of the institution’s faculty and/or staff that are engaged in research (headcount):
35

Number of the institution’s faculty and/or staff that are engaged in sustainability research (headcount):
3

Percentage of the institution's faculty and staff researchers that are engaged in sustainability research :
8.57

Total number of academic departments (or the equivalent) that include at least one faculty or staff member that conducts research:
17

Number of academic departments (or the equivalent) that include at least one faculty or staff member that conducts sustainability research:
3

Percentage of research-producing departments that are engaged in sustainability research:
17.65

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:

Dr. Anna Willow (Anthropology) conducts research on the cultural impacts of natural resource extraction and fracking in the US, conservation efforts and forest clear-cutting on Native American lands in Canada, and environmental activism.

Dr. Joel Barker (Earth Sciences) conducts research on black carbon deposition, snow and glacier melting, and carbon and nitrogen biogeochemical cycling in urban wetlands.

Dr. Sara Crosby (English) conducts research on cultural, human, and literary impacts of wetland and bayou destruction and loss in Louisiana.

Dr. Susan Gershman (Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology) is co-advising a graduate student who is studying ecotoxicology, specifically how cadmium affects reproductive behavior in crickets.


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

Review of faculty curriculum vitae.


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