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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,...
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...
News from IRIS
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...
University of Michigan uses 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.
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...
Two positions open at IRIS: Developer and Data Analyst
The Institute for Research on Innovation and Science currently has two job openings. Data Analyst Duties: Design, write, test and revise programs to import, link and summarize data for use in client reports; design and write programs to implement new metrics for...
Video available of webinar on Tracking the Career Outcomes of Research-Funded Employees
Video is now available of the webinar from Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2020 titled "Tracking the Career Outcomes of Research-Funded Employees with IRIS," presented by IRIS Technical Director Kevin Bjorne and Steppingblocks CFO Rob Gannaway. ...
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