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Researcher Spotlight: Alex Xi He
What are the implications for innovation and scientific discovery of the consistently falling levels of federal research funding and corresponding shift to industry funding at many research universities? Alex Xi He, Assistant Professor of Finance at the University of...
IRIS UMETRICS data highlighted in new Research Policy article
Results of a pilot to link the IRIS UMETRICS data set with survey data (the Survey of Earned Doctorates) in order to better describe the doctoral workforce is available online now from Research Policy. (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.2019.03.001)
Researcher Spotlight: Matt VanEseltine
Please help us welcome our new Research Investigator, Dr. Matthew VanEseltine, to the IRIS team in Ann Arbor. Matt joins us from the Criminal Justice Administrative Records System (CJARS) project at the University of Michigan.
Science highlights working paper by OSU researchers
Valerie Bostwick and Bruce Weinberg’s recent working paper, “Nevertheless She Persisted? Gender Peer Effects in Doctoral STEM Programs” has been getting a lot of coverage, including being featured on the front page of the NBER website and also by Science.
Linking IRIS UMETRICS data to study gender peer effects for STEM PhDs
An NBER working paper by Valerie Bostwick and IRIS co-PI Bruce Weinberg examines outcomes for female PhD students using UMETRICS data, finding that having female peers is important in being successful.
News from IRIS
The 2019 IRIS Summit: Bringing together data providers, researchers, and policy makers
More than 90 people participated in the 2019 IRIS Summit, either in person or remotely, representing a 50% increase from last year. We’re extremely pleased that so many attendees were able to join us for an expanded summit, which featured parallel tracks on data,...
University of Michigan releases data on employment industry and locations of graduates
The University of Michigan has publicly released data on the industries in which their graduates work and the regions in which they live after leaving the university. The data were released through an agreement between U-M and the Institute for Research on Innovation...
Northwestern University, Boston University and the University of Michigan use IRIS data to highlight economic impact of research
Three IRIS member universities have recently featured IRIS data to highlight the economic impact of their research expenditures: Northwestern University, in a piece titled "Northwestern research provides economic boost of nearly $800 million," used its 2019 IRIS...
Applications open for IRIS Postdoctoral Research Fellowships
The Institute for Research on Innovation and Science (IRIS) invites applications for two Postdoctoral Research Fellows. These one-year fellowships are funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation as part of a grant to develop and support the research community using the...
New Vendor Profile Reports released
A new round of Vendor Profile Reports are on their way to IRIS members, showing data such as the number of minority- or woman-owned businesses with research contracts, details on industries receiving research contracts down to the 4-digit NAICS code, county-level...
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