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Office of the Vice President for Research
Office of the Vice-President of Research &International, Office of Research Ethics &Compliance, and Student Affairs-
Student Advocacy.
Rackham Graduate School and our IRB
Research Compliance and Biosafety, Writing Center, Thesis Office
The Graduate School, headed by the Assistant Dean for Academic Affairs
The Homewood Institutional Review Board, in conjunction with the Graduate Affairs Office, offers the training.
According to the HIRB website, ”the members of the HIRB include faculty with expertise in various academic disciplines
and a member from the community that is unaffiliated with the university. The primary concerns of at least one member
are nonscientific. The diversity of HIRB members’ expertise and experience enables them to represent the academic
disciplines in the divisions served by HIRB, community views and attitudes, and nonscientific perspectives when
evaluating the acceptability of proposed research.”
The Office of Research Ethics
The RCR Education Advisory Committee (RCREAC) is composed of representatives from schools and colleges of the
university with students participating in RCR instruction programs.
The Research Ethics Advisory Committee is led by an RCR Officer and consists of 11 faculty members from the main
campus and the health sciences campus. Three offices take care of ethical issues on campus. For main campus faculty
and graduate students: Responsible and Ethical Conduct of Research. For main campus graduate students: Office of
Graduate Studies. For Health Sciences Center: Institute for Ethics. We also have an IRB office.
The Scholarship and Research Integrity office in the Office of the Vice President for Research coordinates the SARI@
PSU program. The development of specific RCR programs for graduate students is left to individual departments and
colleges, but SARI requires that the programs be created. SARI also *lightly* monitors a requirement that faculty take a
certain number of SARI/RCR classes and workshops every two years. This is independent of the required ISB certification
and training for all researchers. SARI coordinates general RCR-programming through contacts in each college.
There is a campus office for “Research Education and Oversight,” with five staff members.
There is a Research Integrity Unit within the campus Office of Research and Innovation.
Vice Provost for Research Office
6. Please enter any additional comments about institution RCR workshops you would like to share.
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Most of the “workshops” are online tutorials or courses.
Much of this is managed through either the library or the Office of the Vice President for Research.
ORCA trains campus deans and department chairs on responsible conduct of research on a yearly basis. Faculty who
wish to conduct research must complete three online modules (Online Ethics Tutorials) created by the Center on
Materials and Devices for Information Technology Research with support from the National Science Foundation.
The institution offers courses, online resources, and seminars.
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