[Assistant-faculty] Satisfying NSF Responsible Conduct of Research Requirements

Friends,

By law, all recipients of research grants from the NSF or the NIH are now required to provide training in the Responsible Conduct of Research (RCR) to all undergraduates, graduate students and postdocs who receive funding from the grants, and to be able to document that this training took place. For information on the NSF requirements, see: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/policydocs/rcr/faqs_mar10.pdf . As far as I’m aware the DOE and NASA are not (yet) subject to the same requirements, but I’m not sure about that.

Up to now, Tufts has left it up to the individual investigator to fulfill this requirement. The email below announces an RCR course to be offered on the Boston campus this summer. I would encourage anyone receiving or expecting NSF or NIH funding to consider enrolling your students and postdocs in this course. Otherwise it’s your responsibility to be provide and document suitable training.

If there are enough people going from Medford, maybe we can get the Vice Provost to arrange a shuttle. So let me know if you’re signing up, and how many.

Don’t blame me, I’m just the messenger.

Roger

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Subject: FW: RCR Course Announcement, Summer 2011

Good Afternoon,

The Office of the Vice Provost has arranged for Dr. Jerry Faust, Associate Professor of Physiology, to lead a course in the Responsible Conduct of Research. The course will meet the NIH and NSF requirements for training in the responsible conduct of research.

Professor Faust will be hosting the course every Thursday from 3:00pm-4:30pm starting on June 16 and going until August 11, 2011. Attendees are required to attend all 9 sessions for full credit. This course will be taught on the Boston Campus, the room will be announced once we have confirmed the class size. Please note the attached tentative schedule.

For more information on RCR at Tufts, please visit the Office of Research Administration's webpage here:

http://viceprovost.tufts.edu/?pid=31

To sign up, please contact me at Jennifer Carland tufts edu with your name, your affiliation (student, clinical associate, professor, etc), and your department. There is no fee for the course. Please try to sign up by Friday, June 10.

Sincerely,

Jennifer Carland

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Jennifer Carland

Project Administrator

Tufts University, Office of the Vice Provost

T: 617-636-2725

jennifer carland tufts edu

Office of the Vice Provost

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