Webinar! Innovations for the Public Good: A Talk with Dr. Jason Owen-Smith

Sep 20, 2024 | Events, News

Wednesday, October 2nd, 1:00 p.m.-1:45 p.m. EDT Join IRIS Executive Director, Jason Owen-Smith, and Research!America for a presentation on IRIS’s efforts to capture, communicate, and enhance the public value of academic research and higher education. The webinar is...

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Michael Zwick of Rutgers University elected to IRIS board; Bethan Cantwell of Michigan State University re-elected

Aug 14, 2024 | News

IRIS welcomes new and returning members to our Board of Directors. Dr. Michael Zwick, the Senior Vice President for Research at Rutgers University, was elected for a three-year term; and incumbent board member Bethan Cantwell, the Assistant Provost for Institutional...

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MIT Press Reader Commentary highlights IRIS’ prototype for measuring federal research impact

Aug 9, 2024 | News

In a new MIT Press Reader commentary, Julia Lane advocates for a new approach to generating public data to better understand AI’s effect on jobs. As she contends, the groundwork for this framework already exists at institutions like IRIS, where a prototype...

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Sixth IRIS-UMETRICS data release now available

Jun 21, 2024 | News

IRIS is pleased to announce that our sixth data release is now available on the virtual data enclave. The 2024 dataset includes information on research spending, vendor contracts and employees from more than 100 campuses across the country. It contains data on more...

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University of Texas Rio Grande Valley Joins IRIS to Highlight Higher Education and Research Value

Jun 21, 2024 | News

We’re pleased to announce that University of Texas Rio Grande Valley has joined IRIS! This partnership will provide UTRGV with new tools to guide policy decisions and demonstrate the impact of its research on workforce training, economic development, and...

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Webinar! “IRIS UMETRICS Data Release: Highlights, Access, Census Data Linkage, and Research Applications”, June 18, 2024

May 21, 2024 | News

Natsuko Nicholls, IRIS Research Manager Elissa Irhamy, Data Science Specialist Joseph Staudt, Economist, U.S. Census Bureau Tuesday, June 18, 2024, 1-2pm ET Registration Link IRIS will soon release the 2024 UMETRICS research dataset. This release includes information...

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