Export controls, the federal regulations that oversee how certain information, services and products are provided to foreign nationals and countries, is a complicated issue for Sponsored Programs...
A two-person team including Dr. Don Engel, UMBC Assistant Vice President for Research, placed second out of more than 9,000 teams in DARPA's Shredder Challenge, a competition to develop software...
September is National Preparedness Month. A series of disaster/crisis webinars sponsored by the US Small Business Administration and the Federal Emergency Management Agency on various topics will...
NASA updates its research misconduct policy which will go into effect on September 28, 2012 - https://www.federalregister.gov/articles/2012/07/30/2012-18435/research-misconduct A list of of...
During the course of certain types of research, investigators may discover sensitive information about subjects that is not related to the study itself which would be reported the appropriate...
At times principal investigators will plan research projects that will eventually lead to the submission of grant applications where human subjects use are planned in future but have not been...
The Office for Human Research Protections (OHRP) has recently released a draft guidance document regarding the transfer of a previously IRB approved research project to a new IRB or new...
The HHS Office of Biotechnology Activities (OBA) recently posted a new Policy for Oversight of Life Sciences Dual Use Research of Concern; a copy of the policy is found...