IDRIS Launches Innovation Lab, a New Tech Collaboration Space at RU-N
October 21, 2026
In October 2024, the School of Arts and Sciences Newark (SASN) launched the Institute for Data, Research and Innovation Science (IDRIS), an interdisciplinary center using research and practice in data science and emerging technologies (such as AI) across fields to address difficult problems facing urban communities.
Since then, IDRIS has made its presence felt widely, providing white papers and forecasting, technology training, and a lecture series and other programming that have drawn on the talents of, and impacted, the entire campus.
But the center has done all of this without a dedicated space of its own for programming, meetings and collaboration.
That’s about to change with this week’s launch of IDRIS’ Innovation Lab, a multipurpose space where interdisciplinary groups can come together to whiteboard, analyze data, brainstorm ideas, work on projects, and display work, as well as hold events and other gatherings.
Reposted from Rutgers–Newark School of Arts and Sciences