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IRIS Research Updates
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...
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...
News from IRIS
IRIS data cited in congressional testimony on COVID-19 impact on research by Jay Walsh, University of Illinois System
An IRIS fact sheet on the impacts of university research spending was cited by Jay Walsh, Interim Vice President for Economic Development and Innovation, University of Illinois System, at a congressional hearing on the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on university...
Video of Impact Finder webinar now available
IRIS Executive Director Jason Owen-Smith demonstrated our new Impact Finder tool in a webinar on Aug. 17, 2020:
IRIS Executive Director Jason Owen-Smith featured in Tech Transfer IP podcast
IRIS Executive Director Jason Owen-Smith was the guest on a recent episode of the Tech Transfer IP podcast with Lisa Mueller. He discussed his book, "Research Universities and the Public Good: Discovery for an Uncertain Future" among other topics. To listen:...
New Impact Finder tool now available
The IRIS Impact Finder is a new, interactive web tool that helps non-data-experts search the IRIS dataset to find vendors that provide research-related goods and services to universities' sponsored research projects. This allows university communications teams to...
IRIS partners with Duality Technologies and NumFOCUS on privacy-protecting data analysis platform
IRIS, Duality Technologies, a leading provider of Privacy-Enhancing Technologies (PETs) enabling collaboration between organizations on sensitive data, and NumFOCUS, a non-profit organization which sponsors the use of open-source software in research, data science and...
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