3 Cultivating the Hoosier economy
More than a service provider, Research Technologies partners with faculty and research labs—providing not only the technology they need, but also the expertise and intellectual contributions that lead to higher competitiveness for grant dollars.
Research Technologies supported 176 departments and $430,096,053 in grant dollars in 2022—nearly 60% of all grant dollars at IU.
Highlights
Consulting on data collection and management
IU REDCap hosts more than 9,000 projects, putting it in the top 30 worldwide in terms of number of projects and clients. IU REDCap projects have researchers logging in from IU, IU Health, Purdue, the Regenstrief Institute, and locations all over the world. RT staff provide support and consulting for all of these researchers, helping them to design studies and choose the REDCap elements that are most useful to them.
Bringing digital spaces to virtual audiences
Through the IU3D initiative, we have digitized over 100 spaces—including historic buildings, rotating gallery exhibits, research facilities, and schools of study—at five different IU campuses and multiple external collaborators from across Indiana. These digital spaces are being used for student recruitment, virtual exhibits, construction project management, fundraising, fostering cultural understanding, and connecting with alumni.
Providing a 10,000-foot view
For more than 20 years, we have hosted the go-to repository for orthographic imagery for the entire state of Indiana. These more than 70 terabytes of data are accessed by thousands of users annually from across Indiana and beyond to help with research, commercial, educational, and governmental projects. Research Data Services has recently revitalized the Indiana Spatial Data Portal (ISDP) and added the latest state flyover data obtained from Indiana’s Geographic Information Office.
“ISDP is an invaluable resource hosting datasets from the statewide and regional ortho-imagery and elevation data programs going back more than 20 years.”
– Marianne Cardwell, past president, Indiana Geographic Information Council
Repurposing technology for education
One IQ-Wall with 16 screens, which began its life in the Advanced Visualization Lab, was moved to a classroom for virtual production and filmmaking classes. The screens facilitate training undergraduate students in methods of virtual production for the Media Arts and Science program.
“The project [using the IQ-Wall] taught me a lot about filmmaking and the innovative technology entering the workforce. I can easily use these skills in my future career.”
—Kayleigh Jones, graduate research assistant, IUPUI School of Informatics and Computing