Research and Compliance
Research and Compliance efforts are managed throug the Provost Office, and are designed to stimulte faculty research efforts in co-ordination with the Faculty Research Committee (FRC), and ensure that compliance review committees review and approve all relevant proposals by staying in compliance with University, local, state, federal, and funding agency regulations for research.
The Faculty Research Committee (FRC) serves an important role at the University by providing a means for the peer review of faculty research proposals. FRC also serves as the deliberating body in cases of scientific misconduct.The FRC meets monthly during the academic year.
Compliance - the purpose of the compliance review committees are to review and approve all relevant proposals to ensure that they are in compliance with University, local, state, federal, and funding agency regulations for research. All investigators --faculty, professional and scientific staff, undergraduate and graduate students-- with either internal or external funding, must obtain approval from the appropriate research compliance review committee(s) before initiating any work on the project and before the Faculty Research Committee will process the award.