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    Research Handbook: Understand Popular Terms

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    • Handbook: Data Management and Stewardship of Research Materials
    • Handbook: Effort Allocation, Certification, and Salary Recovery
    • Handbook: Export Controls and Trade Sanctions
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    • Handbook: Foreign Talent Programs
    • Handbook: Human Subjects and Biospecimens
    • Handbook: Lab Safety and Regulated Research Materials
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    • Handbook: Managing an Award with External Collaborators
    • Handbook: PI-Required Reports
    • Handbook: Roles and Relationships
    • Handbook: Vertebrate Animals

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    Ethical Issues in Research

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    Guidance: Conducting Research in Schools

    Guidance: Data Security and Privacy

    Guidance: Data and Safety Monitoring of Clinical Trials Research

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    Policy: Cost Reallocations for Research or Sponsored Program Indexes

    Policy: Developing, Revising, and Posting Research Administration Policies

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    Policy: Eligibility to Serve as Principal or Co-Principal Investigator on Sponsored Projects

    Policy: End Approval Dates

    Policy: Expedited IRB Review

    Policy: Export Control

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    Policy: Research Involving Prisoners as Research Subjects

    Policy: Subcontracting - Establishing, Managing, and Monitoring Subawards

    Policy: Suspension, Termination, or Expiration of IRB Approval

    Policy: Use of Lotteries, Raffles, and/or Drawings in Research

    Reporting New Information to the IRB

    Research Administration Policy and Procedure Development

    Cognizant Agency Detail

    Guidance: Additional Requirements for Human Subjects Research Supported by Other Federal Agencies

    Guidance: Animal Transport

    Guidance: Collecting Demographic Information from Human Subjects

    Guidance: Consenting Subjects Who Do Not Read, Speak or Understand English

    Guidance: Human Subjects Research Engagement

    Guidance: IACUC External Resource Materials

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    Guidance: Informed Consent Process for Exempt Research

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    Guidance: International Shipments

    Guidance: Justifying the Number of Animals in Research

    Guidance: Major and Minor Surgical Procedures

    Guidance: Racial Equity Considerations in IRB Review

    Guidance: Reporting Animal Welfare Concerns and Policy Violations to the IACUC

    Guidance: Required and Additional Elements of Informed Consent (Non-Exempt Research)

    Guidance: ResearchMatch -- Example Contact Message

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    SOP: Post-Approval Monitoring

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    • Exempt Categories
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    • Expedited Review
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    • What Types of Activities Require IRB Review?

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    • Export Control Compliance Manual
    • Export Control Glossary
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    • Export Control: Frequently Asked Questions
    • Export Controlled Chemicals
    • Export Controlled Items
    • High Performance Computing and Export Control at Lehigh
    • Sanctioned Countries

    Foreign Talent Programs

    Financial Conflicts of Interest in Research and Sponsored Programs

    • Determining if an SFI is Related
    • LIRA Disclosure Process and Resources
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  • About the VPR Team (current)
    • Staff Directory
      • About ORSP
      • About Research Development
    • Strategic Investments in Research
      • Calls for Proposals: Seed Translational Research Projects
      • Center for Catastrophe Modeling and Resilience
      • Strategic Investments: Propose a Center
    • Announcements
    • Events
  • Find Funding (current)
    • Internal Funding Opportunities
      • Faculty Research Grants (FRG)
      • Faculty Innovation Grants (FIG)
      • Collaborative Research Opportunity (CORE) Grants
      • Accelerator Grants
    • External & Sponsored Funding Opportunities
      • Limited Submissions
        • NSF Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) Program
    • University Sabbatical Fellows Program
    • Visiting Scholars Program
  • Proposal & Contract Submissions (current)
    • Proposal Development & Writing Support
      • Individual Research Strategy & Proposal Narrative Consultation
      • Proposal Library: Examples of Successfully Funded Proposals
    • Planning for Human & Animal Participants
    • Step-by-Step Requirements for Sponsored Research Submissions
      • New Faculty Researcher Guide: Before You Propose
      • Effort Planning and Allocation
      • Federal Agency Requirements for Reporting of Professional Activities and Sources of Support
    • LIRA System: Submit Sponsored Research Proposal
      • LIRA Disclosure Process and Resources
      • LIRA System FAQs
    • Submit Internally Funded Research Proposal: InfoReady System
    • Submit a Contract For Review, Negotiation, and Final Approval
      • Components of a Federal Contract Submission
      • Contract FAQs
      • Federal Contracts
      • Other Agreements
      • Sponsored Research Agreements
  • Manage an Award or Project (current)
    • New Faculty Researcher Guide: After You Receive an Award
    • Budget and Spending Tips
    • Research Accounting
    • Effort
    • Payroll
    • Travel
    • Outgoing Subawards
    • Transfer an Award
    • Commercialize Your Invention or Technology
  • Close Out an Award or Project (current)
  • Explore Trainings & Education (current)
    • Research Handbook: Understand Popular Terms
      • Handbook: Allowable Charges on Sponsored Awards
      • Handbook: Collaborating Academic Visitors
      • Handbook: Cost Sharing
      • Handbook: Data Management and Stewardship of Research Materials
      • Handbook: Effort Allocation, Certification, and Salary Recovery
      • Handbook: Export Controls and Trade Sanctions
      • Handbook: External Sponsored Funding: Proposal Development and Submission
      • Handbook: Financial Conflicts of Interest Related to Research and Sponsored Programs
      • Handbook: Foreign Talent Programs
      • Handbook: Human Subjects and Biospecimens
      • Handbook: Lab Safety and Regulated Research Materials
      • Handbook: Legal Agreements and Signature Authority
      • Handbook: Managing an Award with External Collaborators
      • Handbook: PI-Required Reports
      • Handbook: Roles and Relationships
      • Handbook: Vertebrate Animals
    • Responsible Conduct of Research (RCR) Training
    • LIRA System Training & Education
    • IRBnet Training Materials
    • ORCID and SciENcv Instructions and Resources for Faculty
  • Policies, Guidance & Forms (current)
    • Federal Forms
    • Laboratory Shutdown Procedures
    • Rate Agreements
    • Audio and Video Conferencing in Human Subjects Research
    • Changes to NIH Policy for Issuing Certificates of Confidentiality (CoC)
    • Conducting Research Using Crowdsourcing Platforms: Best Practices
    • Ethical Issues in Research
    • European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
    • Export Control Information for Faculty
    • FDA Regulations for Human Subjects Research
    • FERPA: Federal Education Rights and Privacy Act
    • Guidance: Conducting Research in Schools
    • Guidance: Data Security and Privacy
    • Guidance: Data and Safety Monitoring of Clinical Trials Research
    • Guidance: Deidentfied Data
    • Guidance: Electronic Informed Consent
    • Guidance: Financial Conflicts of Interest and Faculty Startups
    • Guidance: General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
    • Guidance: Iran Sanctions
    • Guidance: Readability and Comprehension Standards
    • IACUC: Approved Vendor List For Animal Purchases
    • IRB application & review processes for international research involving undergraduate students
    • Information for International Travelers
    • License Information
    • Maintenance Funds
    • Payments to Research Participants
    • Research Design Guidance
    • Single IRB (sIRB) Review for Multi-Site Cooperative Research
    • Student Investigators' Guide
    • Unaffiliated Investigators
    • Policy on the Protection of Human Subjects in Research
    • Policy: Additional Compensation for Faculty Supported on Research or Sponsored Programs
    • Policy: Application of Facilities and Administrative (F&A) Rates for Sponsored Activities
    • Policy: Children as Research Subjects
    • Policy: Composition and Membership of the Institutional Review Board
    • Policy: Cost Reallocations for Research or Sponsored Program Indexes
    • Policy: Developing, Revising, and Posting Research Administration Policies
    • Policy: Documentation of Informed Consent and Waiver of Documentation of Informed Consent
    • Policy: Eligibility to Serve as Principal or Co-Principal Investigator on Sponsored Projects
    • Policy: End Approval Dates
    • Policy: Expedited IRB Review
    • Policy: Export Control
    • Policy: Financial Conflicts of Interest Related to Research and Sponsored Programs
    • Policy: Foreign Talent Recruitment Programs - Restrictions and Disclosure Requirements
    • Policy: Human Subjects Research Principal Investigator
    • Policy: IRB Conflict of Interest
    • Policy: IRB Exempt Determinations
    • Policy: IRB Researcher Training
    • Policy: Informed Consent and Waiver of Informed Consent
    • Policy: Major Instrumentation
    • Policy: Participant Support Costs
    • Policy: Proposal Submission
    • Policy: Reporting Unanticipated Problems/Adverse Events to the IRB
    • Policy: Research Involving Cognitively Impaired Individuals
    • Policy: Research Involving Fetuses, Pregnant Women or Human In-Vitro Fertilization
    • Policy: Research Involving Prisoners as Research Subjects
    • Policy: Subcontracting - Establishing, Managing, and Monitoring Subawards
    • Policy: Suspension, Termination, or Expiration of IRB Approval
    • Policy: Use of Lotteries, Raffles, and/or Drawings in Research
    • Reporting New Information to the IRB
    • Research Administration Policy and Procedure Development
    • Cognizant Agency Detail
    • Guidance: Additional Requirements for Human Subjects Research Supported by Other Federal Agencies
    • Guidance: Animal Transport
    • Guidance: Collecting Demographic Information from Human Subjects
    • Guidance: Consenting Subjects Who Do Not Read, Speak or Understand English
    • Guidance: Human Subjects Research Engagement
    • Guidance: IACUC External Resource Materials
    • Guidance: IRB Authorization Agreements for Human Subjects Research
    • Guidance: Informed Consent Process for Exempt Research
    • Guidance: International Data Transfers
    • Guidance: International Research
    • Guidance: International Shipments
    • Guidance: Justifying the Number of Animals in Research
    • Guidance: Major and Minor Surgical Procedures
    • Guidance: Racial Equity Considerations in IRB Review
    • Guidance: Reporting Animal Welfare Concerns and Policy Violations to the IACUC
    • Guidance: Required and Additional Elements of Informed Consent (Non-Exempt Research)
    • Guidance: ResearchMatch -- Example Contact Message
    • Guidance: ResearchMatch -- Find Research Participants
    • Quick Reference Codes and ID Numbers
    • Rates - FY 25 Tuition - Graduate Students
    • Rates: Fringe Benefit
    • Rates: Indirect Cost
    • SOP: Carbon Dioxide Euthanasia of Rodents
    • SOP: Collaborative Work with Outside Institutions
    • SOP: Congruency Review
    • SOP: Developing a Technology Control Plan
    • SOP: Export Control Compliance Review of Purchases
    • SOP: Post-Approval Monitoring
  • Research Integrity (current)
    • Human Subjects in Research
      • Exempt Categories
      • Levels of IRB Review
      • Training Requirements for Personnel on IRB Applications
      • Expedited Review
      • Full Committee Review
      • IRB: Amendments / Modifications to Protocols
      • IRB: Frequently Asked Questions
      • IRB: Glossary
      • IRB: Renew an Expiring Protocol
      • IRB: Reporting an Unanticipated Problem
      • IRB: Submit Research Status Check-In Report
      • IRB: Submit a New Protocol
      • What Types of Activities Require IRB Review?
    • Vertebrate Animals in Research
      • IACUC: Engage in Contracted / Subcontracted Vertebrate Animal Research
      • IACUC: Modify an Existing Protocol
      • IACUC: PHS AWA / USDA Registration
      • IACUC: Protocol Review Process
      • IACUC: Resources
      • IACUC: Training and Qualifications
        • IACUC Qualifications Form
    • Export Control
      • Export Control Compliance Manual
      • Export Control Glossary
      • Export Control Training Materials
      • Export Control: Frequently Asked Questions
      • Export Controlled Chemicals
      • Export Controlled Items
      • High Performance Computing and Export Control at Lehigh
      • Sanctioned Countries
    • Foreign Talent Programs
    • Financial Conflicts of Interest in Research and Sponsored Programs
      • Determining if an SFI is Related
      • LIRA Disclosure Process and Resources
      • Public Accessibility of a COI Related to Public Health Service-Funded Research
      • fCOI: Additional Resources
      • fCOI: Frequently Asked Questions
      • fCOI: Glossary

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