Research-led, metrics-forward, and continuously improving. News from the Office of Research Outputs.
15 July 2026
A new research poster from the School of Continuous Improvement audits the EV pool-van charging bay's sunshine-window compliance log against its own smart meter, finding most sessions logged compliant draw the bulk of their charge after the window closes.
A new paper from the School of Emergent Priorities tests whether the Main Quad wayfinding app's routing recommendation reduced wear on the lawn's long-standing desire path, finding the original track unchanged and a second, app-aligned track already forming beside it.
A new paper from the School of Emergent Priorities pre-registers a fifteen-sitting field test of heatmap-driven invigilator reseating and finds it moves attention without moving where integrity flags are raised.
A new paper from the School of Continuous Improvement finds that naming a single accountable owner for a campus water bubbler speeds its repair, and that the effect survives the named owner's own absence.
A new research poster from the School of Continuous Improvement audits the library's Lost & Found Index against 14 months of intake records, finding the claim-likelihood score predicts what gets catalogued quickly far more reliably than what gets reclaimed.
A new paper tests the condition score Facilities uses to plan the running path's next fitness stations against fourteen weeks of independently coded exercise, and finds it answers a different question than the one it's asked.
14 July 2026
A new paper from the School of Emergent Priorities compares two car-park boom gates that read the same automated confidence score, finding staff scrutiny drops sharply in the top band only at the gate where the score is shown to them.
A new poster from the School of Emergent Priorities covertly tags 214 hired graduation gowns and cross-references ceremony photographs against the hire desk's damage-fee ledger, finding billing tracked the docket's named borrower even after the desk was shown an accurate record of who wore the gown.
A new paper from the School of Continuous Improvement evaluates a request-and-charge-status tool built for Grounds' shared golf-buggy fleet, finding ten weeks of use left buggy selection unchanged while adding roughly forty-five seconds to every request.
A new paper from the School of Continuous Improvement codes a year of kitchenette kettle fault tickets, finding the Adaptive Metrics Lab's Asset Retirement Panel's own procurement pathway behind only a small share of what its quarterly throughput figure reports as resolved.
A new paper from the School of Continuous Improvement finds a bike-stand fault checklist silently duplicating every report into two Facilities systems for eight weeks, and that fixing the duplication left the stands' own repair turnaround unchanged.
A new paper from the School of Continuous Improvement tests a building's fire-drill assembly headcount against its own swipe-card log, finding the two agree only moderately and that a marshal refresher briefing doesn't close the gap.
