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Office of Research Services (ORS) (UNI-001)

Office of Research Services (ORS) is documented in the DePaul Resource Map as support service at DePaul University, Office of Academic Affairs, Office of Research Services, Loop. Documentation is partial or indirect, so the listing is treated as likely current. The Office of Research Services (ORS) manages sponsored research development, compliance, and faculty research support. Access: 🟡 Yellow — Needs an appointment or affiliation.

Summary 🟡 ~

  • College / school: Office of Academic Affairs
  • Sub-unit: Office of Research Services
  • Campus/Location: Loop
  • Last Verified: June 14, 2026

Access (availability): 🟢 Green — open or routine · 🟡 Yellow — appointment or affiliation · 🔴 Red — restricted · ⚪/⚫ White/Black — not yet classified

Verification: ✓ confirmed · ~ likely · ? needs review · ✕ archived

Description & capabilities

The Office of Research Services (ORS) manages sponsored research development, compliance, and faculty research support.

Technology transfer (TTO)

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. TTO is a function inside ORS, not the name of the office.

FY 2026 TTO outcomes (ORS Annual Report FY 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: 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 current
  • 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): archived institutional source

Equipment

Administrative service — no shared equipment inventory.

Last verified: July 29, 2026.

Contacts (resource-level)

Last verified: May 30, 2026.

People & contacts

This map lists the Office of Research Services as an office, not an org chart. Current staff and routing contacts are on the official ORS site.

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.

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 (ORS CIRCLE report). Program indexing only; no facility claims inferred.

FY 2026 ORS capacity programs from the ORS Annual Report FY 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. These are aggregate/narrative program reports — they do not list individual awardees, so no per-grant records were created. Current staff contacts are on the official ORS site, not on this office listing.