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IRIS is excited to welcome the Georgia Institute of Technology as its newest member.

With a sponsored research volume of more than $1 billion, addition of Georgia Tech will bring the total research award spending represented in the IRIS-UMETRICS dataset to more than $100 billion. The IRIS dataset includes data from universities that account for nearly 40% of total federal spending on academic research and development, on nearly 100 campuses nationwide. Georgia Tech is IRIS’ second member institution in Georgia, the other being Emory University.

By linking research-related data from member universities with other publicly available and proprietary datasets, IRIS provides members and researchers a rich resource on the human and economic impacts of university-based science.

“Having access to the IRIS dataset strengthens our ability to not only conduct meaningful research, but to also have a data-informed understanding of how that research impacts communities.” said Kaye Husbands Fealing, dean of the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts at Georgia Tech and member of the IRIS scientific advisory board. 

“We’re very happy to have Georgia Tech join us,” said Jason Owen-Smith, IRIS Executive Director, Professor of Sociology, and Executive Director for Research Analytics at the University of Michigan. “Data from this eminent research institution will be a significant contribution to the IRIS dataset, and we trust that IRIS reports based on these data will help Georgia Tech understand, explain and hopefully improve the public value of its investments in research and higher education. We’re very excited at the possibilities that come from having multiple IRIS members in Atlanta.

A recent series by the Emory University’s Emory Magazine titled “A Perfect Match” highlighted many areas of cooperation between Emory and Georgia Tech. IRIS resources, based on university-submitted data linked to other publicly available and proprietary data sources, can help understand the impacts of such collaborations.

For example, aggregate reports including data from Georgia Tech and Emory could shed new light on the economic impacts of research spending and the career paths of research-trained employees in Atlanta and throughout the state.

Faculty (and their collaborators including graduate students) at member institutions also have no-cost access to the IRIS dataset for research purposes, which has been used in dozens of publications since its initial release in 2017. 

Please visit iris.isr.umich.edu/membership for more information on becoming a member of IRIS.