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Dear faculty colleagues, Shortly after we wrote to you on September 29, 2025 announcing the process to comply with new NIH requirements on Research Security training, the NIH rescinded the requirements. We are writing today to clarify that despite NIH’s rescission of the Research Security training requirements, all Lehigh personnel named on a proposal to the NIH are still required to complete the CITI Research Security training course prior to proposal submission. This is because...

Dear Colleagues, Beginning late on Sunday, October 5, all faculty, including adjuncts, and all staff will receive an automated message from Lehigh Integrated Research Administration (LIRA). The message will be from incoi@lehigh.edu, which is the university’s general Conflicts of Interest (COI) email. The automated emails will direct you to enter the COI module in LIRA, review the relevant policies, and either make a disclosure or confirm that you have nothing to disclose. The email will...

The National Institutes of Health expects to begin requiring the use of Common Forms for personnel documents, the Biosketch and Current and Pending (Other) Support, in November 2025. Learn more on the VPR website. To prepare for this transition, NOT-OD-25-152 has been issued. This Guide Notice informs the extramural community that NIH has launched preview versions of the NIH Common Forms within Science Experts Network Curriculum Vitae ( SciENcv). Users are now able to access...