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Office of Research Services (Technology Transfer) (UNI-001)

Summary 🟡 ~

  • Owner Unit: Office of Academic Affairs
  • Sub-unit: Office of Research Services
  • Content Type: service
  • Campus/Location: Loop
  • Last Verified: June 14, 2026

Description & capabilities

Manages sponsored research development, compliance, and faculty research support. The Office of Technology Transfer, Commercialization, & Social Impact (TTO) was established within ORS in August 2025 to support invention disclosure, intellectual property protection, patent strategy, licensing, commercialization pathways, and social-impact translation.

FY 2026 TTO outcomes (ORS Annual Report FY 2026, Section 5 / Table 5.1 — packet 2026-08-19-annual-report-2026):

Activity FY 2026
Invention disclosures received 4
Provisional patent applications filed 2
Licensing agreements executed 2
Faculty educational outreach events 4
TTO-supported grant activities 3
Individual faculty connections 17

Licensing work included faculty-developed software innovations supported by the Illinois Innovation Voucher Program. TTO also participated in ORS grant-related innovation initiatives, including Illinois Innovation Voucher awards and submission of a nearly $3M NSF Accelerating Research Translation (ART) proposal. ORS additionally submitted two institutional development proposals totaling over $6.6M requested (NIH biomedical capacity; NSF research translation / teacher-scholar ART framing).

ORS administers DePaul's internal research-support portfolio through three faculty councils that operate out of Academic Affairs and are chaired by the Associate Provost for Research (Daniela Stan Raicu): the University Research Council (URC), the Quality of Instruction Council (QIC), and the Public Service Council (PSC). These councils run competitive intramural grant programs (Spirit of Inquiry, Excellence in Teaching, Excellence in Public Service, and related awards), the URC and QIC Paid Leave Programs, and the Undergraduate Research Assistant Program (URAP); the Academic Growth and Innovation Fund (AGIF) is administered alongside them. Scale of activity from ORS "Innovation That Matters" reports: AY2023–2024 saw 92 intramural Council awards totaling $463,066; FY2024 URAP funded 122 units (1 unit = 75 student work hours) for $144,570; and 40 paid-leave outcome reports were collected for the December 2023–November 2024 period.

Access status

Verification

  • Status: likely (~)
  • Confidence: 84/100
  • Rationale: Office of Research Services website active with published technology-transfer email.
  • Last verified: 2026-06-14
  • Evidence:
  • Official ORS site active
  • ors@depaul.edu published
  • ORS Internal Grant / Paid Leave / URAP reports 2021-2025 document the URC/QIC/PSC internal funding programs administered by ORS (chaired by Associate Provost for Research): sources/inbox/2026-06-14-internal-grant-reports-2020-presetn/

Equipment

Administrative service — no shared equipment inventory.

Last verified: July 29, 2026.

Contacts (resource-level)

Last verified: May 30, 2026.

People & contacts

Named contacts from the people registry when publicly documented.

Source URL

Official links and email are listed under Contacts above.

Documented Relationships

Complements CEC venture pathways and broader commercialization support. Named as a core institutional asset in DePaul’s NSF Accelerating Research Translation (ART) proposal; coordinates research-to-use intake and milestone progression with IRL used for prototype refinement where appropriate.

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Notes

Service/governance entry. CIRCLE (Curriculum Integrating Research and Creative Learning in Education) tracks research and creative-inquiry course participation via the IRMA CIRCLE application — approximately half of DePaul students enrolled in at least one attributed course in AY 2023-2024 (source: sources/inbox/2026-06-14-circle-report-2024/uploads/CIRCLE_report_FINAL.pdf). Program indexing only; no facility claims inferred.

FY 2026 ORS capacity programs promoted from the ORS Annual Report FY 2026 (Lauren Miller / Chief of Staff packet 2026-08-19-annual-report-2026): UNI-017 Scholarship Learning Communities; UNI-018 Research Faculty Mentor Program; RFUMS collaborative volume on EXT-011.

Internal funding programs (URC / QIC / PSC, paid leave, URAP). Program indexing from ORS internal reports 2021–2025: sources/inbox/2026-06-14-internal-grant-reports-2020-presetn/ (Internal Grant Reports FY21-22 → FY24-25), sources/inbox/2026-06-14-paid-leave-reports-2022-2025/ (Paid Leave Reports 2022–2025), and sources/inbox/2026-06-14-undergradaute-research-assistantship-program-urap-2022-2025/ (URAP Reports FY21-22 → FY2025). These are aggregate/narrative program reports — they do not list individual awardees, so no per-grant records were created. The individual URC/QIC/PSC councils, paid-leave programs, and URAP are preserved as program candidates in the packets' extracted/candidates.yaml and in data/review/resource_candidates.yaml; no separate resource pages were created. Reciprocity: Lauren K. Miller (PER-118, ORS Chief of Staff / Director of Research & Innovation Strategies) and Daniela Raicu (PER-015, Associate Provost for Research, council chair) link to this office in data/people.yaml.