News & Events
Webinar! Innovations for the Public Good: A Talk with Dr. Jason Owen-Smith
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...
Michael Zwick of Rutgers University elected to IRIS board; Bethan Cantwell of Michigan State University re-elected
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...
MIT Press Reader Commentary highlights IRIS’ prototype for measuring federal research impact
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 system has...
Researcher Spotlight: Raviv Murciano-Goroff
Raviv Murciano-Goroff, an assistant professor of Strategy and Innovation at Boston University's Questrom School of Business, co-authored a piece in Nature last year on gender inequities in scientific publications. That article got a lot of attention but it wasn't the...
Sixth IRIS-UMETRICS data release now available
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...