RCR instruction for NIH awards

The NIH has made a policy change regarding RCR instruction for Institutional Training Grant Applications (Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) Institutional Training grants and Non-NRSA Institutional Training grants). See link on the ORPC page for Regulations and Policy.

IMPORTANT MESSAGE FROM THE CITI TRAINING PAGE

On Saturday, February 5, 2011 between 1:00 and 3:00 AM EST, the CITI Program web site will be taken offline for maintenance. Please complete the module you are working on and log off prior to this time. You will not lose credit for any module that you have completed already. You may resume where you left off when the site is brought back on line. For more information, go to https://www.citiprogram.org/

Office of Research Integrity (ORI) to release a video simulation of research intergrity

A video simulation on research integrity, entitled "The Lab", will be released within the next month on the ORI web site and as a DVD. This simulation focuses on a hypothetical research misconduct case that causes lab to lose funding, create bad publicity for the university, and eventually causes the withdrawal of a multi-million dollar endowment.

Like the popular "Choose Your Own Adventures" stories, "The Lab" will allow viewers the opportunity to undo the damage by assuming the roles of a graduate student, post doc, principal investigator,
and a research integrity officer and make decisions to prevent misconduct from occurring unnoticed. The interactive video addresses the handling of misconduct, data management, authorship, mentoring, work-life balance, and other issues that today's researchers face. A fully-functional online version will be available on the ORI site in January, with a DVD version expected to ship PHS funded institutions before February 2011.

A trailer of the video can be viewed at http://ori.hhs.gov/TheLab

June 15th NCURA Telecast - Non-Financial Research Compliance

The UMBC Office of Sponsored Programs, Office of Contract & Grant Accounting and UB's Office of Sponsored Research will be co-hosting a NCURA Telecast on June 15, 2010 from 11:30 am to 3:30pm. The topic will be Non-Financial Research Compliance.

The telecast's learning objectives will focus on gaining a better understanding of:

Research and scientific integrity
Responsible conduct of research
Care and use of laboratory animals
Human subjects protection
Use of hazardous materials, including rDNA
Conflict of interest oversight update

RSVP to Joanne Williams (joannew@umbc.edu) in the UMBC Office of Sponsored Programs.