Research Integrity & Compliance within the OVPR is launching a new Responsible Conduct of Research (RCR) Program, including new training opportunities to fulfill your funder-required RCR requirements. In January, if you work on a National Science Foundation (NSF), National Institutes of Health (NIH), and National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) project, you will receive an automated email from our updated RCR training tracking app. The tracking app will show your current training status and direct you to a list of our RCR Program training options, including online CITI training, monthly in-person trainings, and our February blitz month of remote trainings that can be utilized to satisfy NIH’s requirement for 8 face-to-face training hours. Please consider visiting our RCR Program website now to view your opportunities to get a head start on fulfilling this requirement.

RCR training offerings are continuously being developed and we encourage you to consider how existing departmental events, seminars, or workshops could be leveraged to incorporate RCR-specific learnings to meet the requirements as well. Please contact the RCR Program office (contacts below) to discuss or further brainstorm on how your department may wish to partner with the OVPR in developing content for this effort.

 

Karen Moré, Director of Research Compliance, karen.more@uconn.edu

Ellen Ciesielski, Research Compliance Monitor, eciesielski@uchc.edu

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