ARIS is pleased to announce the Program to Enhance Organizational Research Impact Capacity (ORIC) 2026 -2028 cohort.

Join us in congratulating these outstanding institutions that will spend the next two years building and expanding their in-house expertise to assess and communicate the impact of their research enterprise while supporting effective and innovative Broader Impacts.

Clemson University

BI Professionals

  • Jane Jacobi, (Research Associate, Office of Research Development, Clemson)
  • Morgan Simpson, PhD (Research Development Specialist, Office of Research Development, Clemson)
  • Brett Levi (Program Manager, Office of Research Development, Clemson)

ORIC Administrative Partner

  • Shelia Cotten, PhD (Associate Vice President for Research Development, Division of Research, Clemson)
University of North Carolina Wilmington

BI Professionals

  • Kirsten Wisneski (Director of the Research Development Office, UNCW)
  • Sam Winemiller, PhD (OKRI Librarian) Open Knowledge and Research Impact Librarian)
  • M. Leah Mayo (Assistant Dean for Community Engagement and Health Equity)
  • Sarah Gaby, PhD (Assistant Professor, Dept of Sociology and Criminology)

ORIC Administrative Partner

  • Stuart Borrett, PhD (Associate Provost for Research and Innovation, UNCW)
University of Pittsburgh

BI Professionals

  • Jennifer Iriti, PhD (Assistant Vice Chancellor for Research- Education & Evaluation, Strategy Office of the Senior Vice Chancellor for Research, Univ. of Pittsburgh)
  • Melissa Libertus, PhD (Professor / Senior Research Scientist, Psychology / Learning Research and Development Center, Univ. of Pittsburgh)
  • Alison Slinkskey Legg, PhD (Teaching Professor, Biology, Univ. of Pittsburgh)
  • Mylynda Massart, MD (Multiple Principal Investigator of the Clinical and Translational Science Institute; Univ. of Pittsburgh)

ORIC Administrative Partner

  • Rob A. Rutenbar (Senior Vice Chancellor for Research, Univ. of Pittsburgh)
Texas State University

BI Professionals

  • Lauren Chappell (Program Support Specialist, Division of Research, Texas State Univ.)
  • Rachel Bomberger (Office of Research Development’s Creative and Technical Writer, Texas State Univ.)

ORIC Administrative Partner

  • Jennifer Speed, PhD (Assistant Vice President for Research Development, Division of Research, Texas State Univ.)
The University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP)

BI Professionals

  • David Hernandez, MSHA, MA (Director, Research Development, UTEP)
  • Irene Acosta-Aguilar (Proposal Development Specialist, Research Advancement-Research Development, UTEP)
  • Nora Hernandez (Assistant Director, Research Development, UTEP)
  • Jolene Keipp (Proposal Development Specialist, UTEP)
  • Adrianna Leyva (Manager Government Relations, UTEP)
  • Marcus Gay (Assistant Dean for Research, UTEP)

ORIC Administrative Partner

  • Marc B. Cox, MSPH, PhD (Associate Vice President for Research, UTEP)
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