Research Impact Partners

The Open Source Program Office (OSPO) offers training and individualized support for faculty, students, and staff who want to grow their software efforts into healthy open source projects. The UT OSPO provides consultation and training on how best to contribute to existing projects, facilitates relationships with other organizational units, offers training, personalized consultations, a lecture series, a help desk network, publishing of best practices, and events that help students, faculty, and staff engage with open source software.

This summer program pairs 2-4 students with a Freshmen Research Initiative Research Stream for a unique two-hour tour of a real scientific laboratory.

The Statistics, Measurement, And Research design Techniques in Educational Research (SMARTER) consulting office provides support for College of Education faculty and graduate students’ research design and quantitative analysis needs. SMARTER can help by discussing any aspect of a quantitative study, from the specific, such as choosing a statistical model to address a research question, interpreting the results of an analysis, conducting a power analysis, or suggesting or critiquing a research design, to the general, such as assisting with formulation of research questions and statistical hypotheses or serving as a sounding board for research ideas.

Provides rigorous, high-quality research and evaluation services that are customized to best serve each project's unique needs. TACC evaluators collaborate with PIs, researchers, administrators, staff, and key stakeholders to help shape the evaluation, inform data collection methods, and effectively use findings for improving programs and demonstrating impacts.