The Center for Advancing Research Impact in Society (ARIS) recently announced the University of Utah is one of seven organizations selected for the 2024 Cohort of its Program to Enhance Organizational Research Impact Capacity (ORIC).

The other six organizations that will form the signature program’s fifth cohort include the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Mote Marine Laboratory, Pennsylvania State University, Texas Tech University, University of Minnesota and Utah State University.

“The mission of the ORIC program is to empower institutions to enhance their internal infrastructure for research impact support,” said ARIS executive director Susan Renoe in a press release. “By boosting effective BI support at the institutional level, we amplify the benefits of research on society and its impact.”

In the press release, ARIS said it’s expanding the ORIC program across two years and adding an in-person training component, having already successfully graduated four cohorts of institutional partners. The ORIC program will provide support for these new partners to create and implement their innovative action plans unique to their institution’s needs, according to the release.

“The University of Utah Broader Impacts team is excited by the opportunity to improve our institutional capacity to bolster BI activities and better connect our networks of faculty, staff, students, and community groups through the ORIC Program,” said Andrew George, associate director of the STEM Ambassador Program at the U. “Our team is excited about evaluating and improving BI efforts, developing tools for identifying existing BI resources on our campus, and bringing disparate campus BI programs together to create a centralized, trusted Broader Impacts Office at our university.”

Click here to read the full press release.

To learn more about the ORIC Program, click here.