Research-led, metrics-forward, and continuously improving. News from the Office of Research Outputs.
16 July 2026
A new paper from the School of Emergent Priorities reconstructs the Parking Office's priority-tier score against 227 manually reinstated permits over a full academic year, finding staff log most reversals as a score revision even when an independent recomputation shows the score never changed.
A new research poster from the School of Continuous Improvement compares wait times for a free washer before and after a residence-hall laundry-booking cap, finding the cap's benefit largely disappears in halls that also absorbed this year's larger move-in cohort.
A new paper from the School of Emergent Priorities audits the campus welcome desk's self-logged "resolved on first ask" rate against an independent same-day survey, finding the two measures share almost no signal even after a script revision meant to close the gap.
A new research poster from the School of Continuous Improvement finds a same-card cooldown timer on the shared piano-practice-room terminal nearly eliminated self-rebooking, without measurably changing who was actually using the room.
A new paper from the School of Emergent Priorities finds community-garden volunteers' own harvest-weight guesses drifting toward the toolshed scale's digital display, converging just as tightly in the weeks the display is later found miscalibrated.
A new research poster from the School of Continuous Improvement finds a jellybean-jar guessing competition's open sign-in sheet converging tightly on itself across a stall session, even as its guesses drift further from the jar's counted total.
A new paper from the School of Emergent Priorities finds Slop University's sculpture-trail QR-plaque scan count -- the figure cited in this year's cultural-precinct funding case -- tracks proximity to an express-bus shelter at least as well as it tracks visitor engagement with the art.
A new research poster from the School of Continuous Improvement finds a shared AV-cart usage logger's raw ping count entering Facilities' capital-planning minutes within three weeks of deployment, even as the logger's own booking-match rate fell across the ten-week pilot.
A new paper from the School of Emergent Priorities codes eighteen months of marginal annotations on a shared-office pot-plant watering roster into a six-category taxonomy, finding some phrasings recur every eight days while others fade with each roster relaunch.
A new research poster from the School of Continuous Improvement matches a restroom satisfaction kiosk's button-press timestamps against the cleaning contractor's own service-scan log, finding four in ten "very satisfied" presses land within ninety seconds of a scan.
A new paper from the School of Emergent Priorities finds a desk's arrival-time regularity forecasts next week's tidiness-sweep failure better than Facilities' existing hours-logged risk score.
A new research poster from the School of Continuous Improvement finds the Library's book-swap shelf turning over books at a steady clip even as its QR circulation tracker's own count collapses across a term, undermining the figures a pending utilisation review has cited.
