--- title: "Is Northwestern Information Technology Research Portal (Research Administration Systems) down? Northwestern Information Technology Research Portal (Research Administration Systems) status" url: "https://www.openstatus.dev/status/northwestern/research-portal-research-administration-systems" description: "Live Northwestern Information Technology Research Portal (Research Administration Systems) status, uptime over the last 45 days and recent incidents, tracked by openstatus." --- # Is Northwestern Information Technology Research Portal (Research Administration Systems) down? **Answer:** No, Northwestern Information Technology Research Portal (Research Administration Systems) is not down. All Northwestern Information Technology Research Portal (Research Administration Systems) systems are operational. - Status: operational - Checked: 2026-11-07T02:00:02Z - User reports in the last 15 minutes: 0 - Part of: [Northwestern Information Technology](/status/northwestern.md) / Administrative and Business - Official status page: https://northwesternuniversity.statuspage.io - About: The Northwestern Research Portal is a one-stop-shop for researchers and their staff to obtain research administration information. The Portal displays data from multiple systems in a user-friendly way, allowing faculty members self-service access to drill into details of the project information they are most interested in. ## Last 45 days 2 of 2 tracked days without issues. ## Incidents affecting Research Portal (Research Administration Systems) | Started | Incident | Impact | Duration | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 2026-10-28 | [Cognos and Research Portal Service Interruption](https://stspg.io/6rjtc7ryz1y7) | critical | 30m | | 2026-10-07 | [Cognos Self-Service Reporting and Data Visualization and Research Portal Service Interruption](https://stspg.io/bsbg0c5d8kd7) | critical | 22m | | 2026-09-15 | [Research Portal Service Interruption](https://stspg.io/2x3qqqgbkdtl) | critical | 19m | | 2026-09-14 | [Cognos Self-Service Reporting and Data Visualization Service Interruption](https://stspg.io/0rgrh1bz01jx) | critical | 1h 58m | | 2026-07-08 | [Cognos and Research Portal Service Interruption](https://stspg.io/zf5l64zq74gr) | critical | 1h 3m | ## Links - HTML page: /status/northwestern/research-portal-research-administration-systems - Service: /status/northwestern.md