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November 03, 2023
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Nov 17, 2023 Human Subjects Research
Expansion of Institutional Review Board (IRB) protocol triage

The Office of Research is expanding the IRB triage process to initial applications submitted to the Biomedical Sciences IRB following a successful pilot with the Cancer IRB.
 

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Nov 16, 2023 OSP
Updated policy guidance for subaward/consortium written agreements with foreign institutions

Beginning January 2, 2024, the National Institutes of Health will require that foreign subrecipients provide the primary recipient access to copies of all lab notebooks, data and documentation that supports the research outcomes described in the p

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Nov 03, 2023 ORC
New RCR course meets NIH and NSF requirements

The Office of Research has developed a new credit-earning course to meet National Institutes of Health (NIH) and National Science Foundation (NSF) requirements for training in the responsible and ethical conduct of research (RCR).

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Oct 26, 2023 OSR
Federal ban on ByteDance (TikTok) extended to all federal contracts

Faculty, staff and students who have any ByteDance application, including TikTok, installed on a device that is used in any federal contract work must delete the app on that device.

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Oct 16, 2023 OSR
Guardrails Finalized by the Department of Commerce

The U.S. Department of Commerce today released the final rule implementing the national security guardrails of the bipartisan CHIPS and Science Act.

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Oct 02, 2023 OR
Federal Government Shutdown Averted

On Saturday, September 30, Congress overwhelmingly passed a bipartisan Continuing Resolution (CR), which President Biden immediately signed into law, to avert a federal government shutdown just hours ahead of a midnight deadline.

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Sep 25, 2023 Interdisciplinary Research Centers and Institutes
Goldberger to succeed Hammel as CEM director

Joshua Goldberger, PhD, has been named Director of the Center for Emergent Materials, an NSF MRSEC, effective this fall semester. He succeeds Chris Hammel, PhD, who has led the center for the past 12 years.

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Jun 23, 2023 OSP
Office of Sponsored Programs’ micro-purchase threshold increasing to $75,000 July 1

Effective July 1, the Micro-Purchase Threshold (MPT) will increase from $25,000 to $75,000.

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