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IRIS reports cited in NSB’s “Academic Research and Development”
Two IRIS data reports were recently cited in Academic Research and Development, part of Science and Engineering Indicators 2022, a statistical reference report produced by the National Science Board, the National Science Foundation and the National Center for Science...
Researchers at NC State publish paper on new way to evaluate tech transfer offices
In a paper recently published in the Journal of Technology Transfer, Jason Coupet, Associate Professor at NC State (and IRIS Research Award winner), and Yuhao Ba, incoming Assistant Professor at the National University of Singapore, combined IRIS-UMETRICS data with...
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...
News from IRIS
Georgia Tech is the newest member of IRIS
IRIS is excited to welcome the Georgia Institute of Technology as its newest member. With a sponsored research volume of more than $1 billion, addition of Georgia Tech will bring the total research award spending represented in the IRIS-UMETRICS dataset to more than...
Job Posting: Project Manager
IRIS is now hiring a project manager to track the performance and completion of a variety of projects, assist the IRIS research team, and support the managing director. For the complete listing, see https://myumi.ch/zxPxG.
New NSF grant will create mosaic of data on the impact of university research
A $2 million, three-year NSF grant recently awarded to the Institute for Research on Innovation and Science (IRIS) will create a mosaic of linked data resources that will shed new light on the impacts of university-based research. Under the auspices of the National...
IRIS releases new report on congressional district-level higher education and research spending
As Congress continues to debate funding levels for university-based research, IRIS is pleased to announce a new tool to help make the case for increased federal and state support: the Congressional District Detail Report. It contains, for every congressional district...
Arizona State University and the University of Kentucky are the newest IRIS members
Two of the country’s leading research universities have signed on as new members of the Institute for Research on Innovation and Science (IRIS): the University of Kentucky and Arizona Sate University With a combined sponsored research volume of more than $1 billion,...
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