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Researchers at NC State publish paper on new way to evaluate tech transfer offices
In a paper recently published in the Journal of Technology Transfer, Jason Coupet, Associate Professor at NC State (and IRIS Research Award winner), and Yuhao Ba, incoming Assistant Professor at the National University of Singapore, combined IRIS-UMETRICS data with...
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 an article in Nature Communications titled "Experimental evidence for scale-induced category convergence across populations," with...
2020 UMETRICS research data released
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...
Jake Fisher and Yajuan Si win MIDAS grant for COVID-19 project
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...
Team led by James Evans, University of Chicago, wins IRIS Researcher Award
IRIS is pleased to announce that a research team led by James Evans at the University of Chicago has won the 2020 IRIS Researcher Award. The awards are supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and have been given out since 2018. For a listing of previous awardees,...
News from IRIS
Job Posting: Assistant Research Scientist
IRIS is hiring an Assistant Research Scientist to work with IRIS faculty and staff on projects to measure and analyze the impact academic research has on the development of scientific knowledge, individual scientists’ careers, and the health, prosperity and well-being...
IRIS is hiring a postdoc for a five-year study on doctoral students’ hard and soft skills
IRIS is hiring a postdoc for the NSF-funded "Impact of Hard/Soft Skills on STEM Workforce Trajectories," a five-year project to study the effects doctoral students' training environment have on their development of "hard" and "soft" skills. The focus of this...
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 spending has added $5.9 billion to the economy since 2002. Read more at https://myumi.ch/jxGN9. The University of Kansas also sent out...
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 titled Measuring Research Impact for Internal Audiences and Government Relations. Kevin presented two recently released IRIS...
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 enhancing data offerings through new collaborations, expanding our membership base, enabling a broad range of high quality...
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