IRIS is… a consortium of research universities using big administrative data to understand, explain, and improve higher education and research.
IRIS is… a consortium of research universities using big administrative data to understand, explain, and improve higher education and research.
Happening @ IRIS
Video available: IRIS Annual Meeting
The IRIS 2021 Annual Meeting, which replaced the IRIS Summit this year because of the COVID pandemic, took place March 18. Presentation topics included a "state of the institute" talk, and an update on the institute's work on the impacts of COVID on the U.S. research enterprise.
Video is available at https://youtu.be/-6MmFF8fEu4.
IRIS 2020 Webinar Series
Visit our YouTube channel for sessions describing our data reports, and our recent work analyzing the impacts of COVID on university research.
IRIS awarded $500,000 grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
The funding will allow IRIS to continue its work to understand the full impact of the pandemic on research operations at member universities, and to expand the number of universities included in the data analysis.
Read the full announcement at http://myumi.ch/gjVwj.
IRIS member universities submit data to the institute and receive back reports focused on institutional research, governmental relations, and public communications.
IRIS produces interactive reports to illuminate the impact of universities’ research activities on the economy and career pathways of employees.
The IRIS dataset is a valuable asset for researchers in a variety of disciplines, capturing detailed data from nearly 400,000 awards representing more than 41% of U.S. total R & D spending at univerisities.
Current Members
News @ IRIS
University of Michigan & University of Kansas use IRIS data in press release on research-related spending
The University of Michigan issued a press release based on the IRIS Spending Report that found that the university's research-related...
Video available from webinar: Measuring Research Impact for Internal Audiences and Government Relations
Video is now available at https://youtu.be/9aohfL8rnIA from the webinar delivered Feb. 23, 2021, by IRIS Technical Director Kevin Bjorne...
Guilbeault, IRIS Researcher Award winner, publishes article on scale-induced category convergence in Nature Communications
Douglas Guilbeault, an Assistant Professor at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley, recently co-authored...
2020 IRIS Year in Review now available
The past year obviously did not work out as anyone had planned. But IRIS made significant progress toward several of our goals, including...
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