The UNH Institutional Review Board for the Protection of Human Subjects in Research (IRB) has revised its application materials (dated August 2013).  They are available in Word and RTF versions at http://www.unh.edu/research/human-subjects.  (A fillable PDF will be available soon.)  The IRB requests that researchers discard all prior versions, and use the new materials when submitting future applications.

The National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Office of Inspector General (OIG) describes the importance of accurate information in biosketches and letters of collaboration or support in its latest semiannual report (http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2013/oig13002/oig13002.pdf).

The mission of the Ethics Collaborative Online Resource Environment (CORE) Digital Library is to bring together information on best practices in research ethics, instruction, and responding to ethical problems that arise in research and professional life.  The library features online forums, instructional materials, a library, an encyclopedia, and best practices. It is hosted by the University of Illinois and funded by the National Science Foundation.

The National Research Council has updated the list of agencies reported as using the revised Public Health Service (PHS) financial conflict of interest in research (FCOIR) regulations in their award terms.  The list is available on UNH's FCOIR for Projects Funded by the PHS webpage. 

The agencies are as follows:

The 2013 edition of the International Compilation of Human Research Standards is available from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Office for Human Research Protections (OHRP).

Videos of the sessions at Colorado State University's Plagiarism Workshop on May 8^th, 2013 are available online at http://echo.colostate.edu:8080/ess/portal/section/85b03351-3d64-48ab-b26f-0a40557bb188.

The sessions include:

According to Science magazine, “The National Science Foundation (NSF) is investigating nearly 100 cases of suspected plagiarism drawn from a single year’s worth of proposals funded by the agency.”  The proposals are those funded by NSF in 2011.  The article is available at http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2013/03/nsf-audit-of-successful-proposal.html.

The Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC) has set its meeting schedule for summer 2013, available here.