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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,...
IRIS and XSEDE collaborate to study the impact of research supercomputing
A partnership between the eXtreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE) and the Institute for Research on Innovation and Science (IRIS) will examine how access to advanced research computing resources and services available via XSEDE affect the...
Researcher Spotlight: Lisa Cook
From testifying on Capitol Hill to writing an opinion piece on the pages of the New York Times, Dr. Lisa Cook has helped bring new attention and research focus to racial and gender inequalities in economic and academic opportunities and outcomes. Now, she is using...
New data release: NSF Publication – UMETRICS match
IRIS has released a new IRIS UMETRICS - NSF Publication match, related NSF publication source files, and accompanying documentation (available here: https://iris.isr.umich.edu/research-data/2019datarelease-nsfpub). Similar to the NIH publication crosswalk shared with...
News from IRIS
IRIS fact sheet cited in Science Policy Forum article
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 Hopkins...
IRIS Executive Director Jason Owen-Smith speaks at NASEM forum on post-secondary response to COVID-19
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...
Coronavirus response: Remote staffing, delayed employment report, and postponed board election
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...
Nazha Gali to join IRIS as Post-Doctoral Research Fellow
IRIS is pleased to announce that Dr. Nazha Gali, Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship and Leadership at the University of the District of Columbia (UDC), will join the IRIS team as a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow. The year-long fellowship, supported by the Alfred...
Cornell University becomes newest IRIS member
Cornell University recently signed on as an official member of the Institute for Research on Innovation and Science (IRIS), a consortium of America’s leading higher educational institutions focused on providing data to demonstrate the public value of sponsored...
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