News & Events
Event | Industries of Ideas: Preparing People & Policy for Work in an AI Economy by Jason Owen-Smith
Data & AI in Society Lecture Series May 29, 2025 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM This is an in-person event: Auditorium C, Angell Hall (435 S. State St., Ann Arbor, MI 48109) Register: https://midas.umich.edu/events/working-in-industries-of-ideas-ai-jobs-and-the-economy/ About...
IRIS in the news: Trump budget draft proposes NIH consolidation and 40% spending cut
27 current institutes and centers would be folded into 8, with 4 eliminatedBy Megan Molteni, Jonathan Wosen, and Anil Oza — April 16, 2025Original article on STAT News A draft Trump administration budget for the Department of Health and Human Services leaked to...
Chronicle article examines federal policy shifts threatening university research
The Incoherent Policy Change Wreaking Havoc on University Research The fight over NIH indirect costs has high stakes. In a new Chronicle of Higher Education article, IRIS Executive Director Jason Owen-Smith untangles the history and function of indirect costs in...
Watch: AEI presentation ft. Jason Owen-Smith
In March, IRIS Executive Director Jason-Owen Smith joined experts at AEI to discuss what we know about AI job and skill effects, and strategies for creating “headlight” data that can tell us where we might be heading. Watch online:
Utah State University Joins National Effort to Demonstrate the Impact of Research Funding
Press release – March 2025 Utah State University has joined the Institute for Research on Innovation & Science (IRIS), a national consortium of leading research universities dedicated to using data to understand and demonstrate the public value of research...