Our fourth annual data release is now available on the virtual data enclave! The dataset includes information on research spending, vendor contracts and employees from research institutions representing 41% of total U.S. university R&D spending. The IRIS dataset...
A recent IRIS fact sheet titled “The Impact of American University Research Spending” was cited in an article in the Policy Forum section of Science magazine. The piece, co-written by authors from the University of Michigan, Stanford University, Johns...
Jake Fisher, Research Investigator at IRIS, and Yajuan Si, Research Assistant Professor in the Survey Methodology Program, have been awarded funding under the Michigan Institute for Data Science’s COVID-19 grant program. Their proposal, titled “Estimating county-level...
IRIS Executive Director Jason Owen-Smith participated in a panel discussion on April 24, 2020, on the possible long-term implications of the COVID-19 pandemic for colleges and universities as part of a National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine week-long...
IRIS will continue to meet the research needs of members and the scientific community generally during the COVID-19 outbreak. We are monitoring the situation and have made some adjustments to our operations: All staff will be working remotely for the coming weeks. We...
