The Graduate School Responsible Conduct in Research (RCR) Workshop:
Ethics in the Use of Animals in Research/Ethics in the Use of Humans in Research
Thursday, February 5th
5-7 pm
The National Science Foundation (NSF) and National Institutes of Health (NIH) require training in the Responsible Conduct of Research (RCR) under the authority of the America Competes Act legislation for all undergraduate students, graduate students, and postdoctoral researchers who participate in federally sponsored research awards.
Responsible Conduct of Research includes most of the professional activities that are related to a research career and specifically encompasses the following nine areas:
- Conflict of interest – personal, professional, and financial
- Policies regarding human subjects, live vertebrate animal subjects in research, and safe laboratory practices
- Sponsor/fellow responsibilities and relationships
- Collaborative research including collaborations with industry
- Peer review, including confidentiality and disclosure of participation by anyone not directly assigned to the materials under review
- Data acquisition and laboratory tools; data management, sharing and ownership
- Research misconduct and policies for handling misconduct
- Responsible authorship and publication, with topics including fabrication, falsification and plagiarism
- The scientist as a responsible member of society, contemporary ethical issues in biomedical research, and the environmental and societal impacts of scientific research Individuals have several options to complete this requirement including:
- Satisfactorily complete departmentally offered courses (i.e., GRAD 5910, a 1 credit course offered every semester).
- Completing the four-hour online RCR training program offered through the CITI (Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative) program (http://www.citiprogram.org), supplemented by two in-person training sessions offered by the Graduate School. Four sessions are offered over the course of a one-year period. Students must take at least two of the four offered sessions.
Please register at: https://eventbrite.com/event/15329169960/
Contact Information:
The Graduate School
gradschool@uconn.edu
860-486-3617
The Graduate School is committed to achieving equal educational opportunity and full participation for persons within the graduate community at all of our events. If you require disability accommodations and/or services please contact Martha Marroni at 860-486-0983 or martha.marroni@uconn.edu with adequate notice to allow for the provision of any accommodations.
For more information, contact: The Graduate School at 6-3617