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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...
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,...
News from IRIS
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,...
Four new members elected to IRIS Board of Directors
Four new members have been elected to the IRIS Board of Directors. They are: José Román, Vice President of Research Administration, Rutgers University Jeni Hart, Dean of the Graduate School and Vice Provost of Graduate Studies, University of Missouri Richard Greeley,...
Jason Owen-Smith opinion piece in The Hill: NSF funding choice: Move forward or fall behind
In a recently published opinion piece in The Hill, IRIS Executive Director Jason Owen-Smith argued that Congress faces a fundamental choice in NSF funding -- move forward or fall behind in the race to be a leader in global research and development. "Today Congress...
Job Posting: Assistant Research Scientist
IRIS is hiring an Assistant Research Scientist to work with IRIS faculty and staff on projects to measure and analyze the impact academic research has on the development of scientific knowledge, individual scientists’ careers, and the health, prosperity and well-being...
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