Overall Rating Silver - expired
Overall Score 51.13
Liaison Jay Price
Submission Date Oct. 12, 2011
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University of Tennessee at Knoxville
ER-16: Faculty Involved in Sustainability Research

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 8.50 / 10.00 Preston Jacobsen
Sustainability Manager
Facilities Services
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The number of faculty members engaged in sustainability research:
71

The total number of faculty members engaged in research:
334

Names and department affiliations of faculty engaged in sustainability research:

Allen, Freddie L. (Plant Sciences)
Bemiller, James (Kinesiology, Recreation, & Sports Studies)
Butler, David (Plant Sciences)
Cherry, Chris (Civil Engineering)
Chen, Feng (Plant Sciences)
Cheng, Zong (Ming (Plant Sciences)
Clark, Christopher D. (Agricultural and Resource Economics)
Clarke, David Bruce (Center for Transportation Research)
Classen, Aimee (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology)
Cox, Chris D. (Civil and Environmental Engineering)
DeKay, Mark (College of Architecture and Design)
Dhingra, Rajive (Industrial and Information Engineering)
Dmowski, Wojciech (Materials Science and Engineering)
Drake, John B. (Civil and Environmental Engineering)
Egami, Takeshi (Materials Science and Engineering)
Fairhurst, Ann (Retail, Hospitality, and Tourism Managment)
Fu, Joshua S. (Civil and Environmental Engineering)
Fulcher, Amy Fagerlin (Plant Sciences)
Gangaware, Timothy R. (Institute for a Secure and Sustainable Environment)
Ganguly, Auroop (Civil and Environmental Engineering)
Geibig, Jack R. (Institute for a Secure and Sustainable Environment)
Gentry, Randy William (Institute for a Secure and Sustainable Environment)
Graham, David E. (Microbiology)
Greene, David (Baker Center for Public Policy)
Grissino (Mayer, Henri D. (Geography)
Hallam, Thomas Guy (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology)
Harley, Grant Logan (Geography)
Hawkins, Shawn (Biosystems Engineering and Soil Sciences)
Jensen, Kimberly (Agricultural and Resource Economics)
Jones, Robert (Sociology)
Jouline, Igor (Microbiology)
Klingeman, William E. (Plant Sciences)
Koirala, Sesh Raj (Institute for a Secure and Sustainable Environment)
Lambert, Dayton (Agricultural and Resource Economics)
Layton, Alice (Center for Environmental Biotechnology)
Liaw, Peter K. (Materials Science and Engineering)
Loeffler, Frank (Microbiology & Civil and Environmental Engineering)
Mollenkopf, Diane (Marketing & Logistics)
Morris, James (Material Science and Engineering)
Nichols, Jeffrey (Joint Institute for Computational Science)
Ostermeier, David (Forestry, Wildlife, & Fisheries)
Pantalone, Vincent Robert (Plant Sciences)
Park, Bill (Agricultural and Resource Economics)
Penumadu, Dayakar (Civil and Environmental Engineering)
Pfiffner, Susan M. (Center for Environmental Biotechnology)
Rapinder S. (Industrial and Information Engineering)
Rogers, Samuel M. (Plant Sciences)
Sams, Carl E. (Plant Sciences)
Sanders, Nathan (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology)
Sayler, Gary (Center for Environmental Biotechnology)
Sepaniak, Michael J. (Chemistry)
Sharma, Archana (College of Architecture and Design)
Shelton, Robert B (Baker Center for Public Policy, Economics)
Shmerler, Deborah (College of Architecture and Design)
Smith, Jeremy (Biochemistry and Cellular and Molecular Biology (BCMB))
Stach, Edgar (College of Architecture and Design)
Steckel, Lawrence (Plant Sciences)
Stewart, Neal (Plant Sciences)
Suttles, Barbara C (Center for Information Studies)
Tate, Wendy (Marketing & Logistics)
Taylor, Adam (Forestry, Wildlife, & Fisheries)
Tran, Liem Thanh (Geography)
Trendafilova, Sylvia (Kinesiology, Recreation, & Sports Studies)
Urbanik, Thomas (Center for Transportation Research)
Walker, Forbes (Biosystems Engineering and Soil Sciences)
Webster, Shelia (Institute for a Secure and Sustainable Environment)
Wilt, Catherine A (Institute for a Secure and Sustainable Environment)
Wszelaki, Annette (Plant Sciences)
Yen, Steven (Agricultural and Resource Economics)
Zacharia, Thomas (Joint Institute for Computational Science)
Zhu, Wenguang (Physics)


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The total number of faculty engaged in research was estimated at 291 by Tai-lun Chiang (tchiang@utk.edu) of the Office of Research. This estimate is based on research projects registered in Coes or Trace. The final number we reported (334) includes 43 additional researchers who contacted us through email.


The total number of faculty engaged in research was estimated at 291 by Tai-lun Chiang (tchiang@utk.edu) of the Office of Research. This estimate is based on research projects registered in Coes or Trace. The final number we reported (334) includes 43 additional researchers who contacted us through email.

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