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2018

  • October

    • Information Regarding National Science Foundation Important Notice NO 144 Sexual Harassment

      October 24, 2018

      On Wednesday, September 19, 2018, the National Science Foundation (NSF) announced plans to combat sexual harassment and other forms of harassment within the agency and organizations and field sites where NSF-funded research is conducted. The new policy, released on Friday, September 21, 2018, requires the 2,000 U.S. institutions of higher education and other organizations that receive NSF funds to report findings of sexual harassment, other forms of harassment, or sexual assault by researchers beginning October 21, 2018. NSF plans to add an award term and condition that spells out core obligations for awardees and imposes new reporting obligations.

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    • Resignation of Leading Cancer Researcher Highlights Importance of Disclosing Conflicts of Interest

      October 11, 2018

      The recent, highly publicized case of Jose Baselga, MD, PhD, is an important reminder of the need for faculty to disclose institutional and financial conflicts of interest. Baselga, a world-renowned oncologist and researcher, was forced to resign his position as chief medical officer of New York's Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center after failing to disclose payments from pharmaceutical and health care companies.

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  • August

    • Lunch and Learn Sessions

      August 28, 2018

      The Human Research Protection Office will hold Lunch and Learn sessions for researchers on the first Tuesday of each month. They will be held at 12:00pm on the 7th floor of the Bellet Building.

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    • Impact of Final Rule Delay for Drexel University Researchers

      August 08, 2018

      On Wednesday June 19, 2018, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued the Final Rule delay for the general compliance date of the 2018 Requirements for an additional 6-month period until January 21, 2019. As a result of this delay to the general compliance date, regulated entities will be required, with an exception, to continue to comply with the requirements of the pre-2018 version of the Common Rule until January 21, 2019.

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  • May

  • April

    • COEUS Dreams Do Come True

      April 19, 2018

      Effective May 1, 2018, the Office of Research will no longer require COEUS records for Non-Competing Continuations and Budget Revisions. Yes, you read that correctly. You no longer need to stay awake at night riddled with anxiety about all of those Coeus records that you have on your to-do list.

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    • Online Training Now Availabe for eIRB COEUS

      April 19, 2018

      Training for eIRB COEUS is now available online.

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    • New WIRB Submission Process

      April 19, 2018

      Drexel Human Research Protection (HRP) and the Western Institutional Review Board (WIRB) worked together to update the process for initial submissions to WIRB, which will incorporate Connexus, WIRB's submission portal.

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    • DARE Seed Funding Competition

      April 19, 2018

      The Drexel Areas of Research Excellence (DARE) initiative will provide resources such that tow or three groups of faculty and students can each spend a year deeply engaged in an interdisciplinary research effort that spans at least three of our schools and colleges.

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  • February

    • New Chart of Account Elements for AAHS

      February 26, 2018

      On midnight, January 11, 2018, Hahnemann University Hospital (HUH) and St. Christopher's Hospital for Children (SCHC) were sold by Tenet Healthcare Corporation to American Academic Health System (AAHS).

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    • Drexel Joins FDP Expanded Clearinghouse

      February 26, 2018

      Drexel has joined the FDP Expanded Clearinghouse, an online public database of entity profiles used in lieu of subrecipient commitment forms to obtain general institutional information needed by pass-through entities when they are issuing subawards or monitoring subrecipient entities.

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    • IRB #3 Leadership Change

      February 26, 2018

      Rita Naremore, PhD, former Chair of the Social-Behavioral-Education Institutional Review Board (IRB #3), retired from the board effective February 1. We appreciate Naremore's many contributions and leadership exhibited throughout her time as chair.

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  • January

    • National Science Foundation Update

      January 30, 2018

      The NSF has issued an updated version of their Proposal and Award Policies and Procedures Guide, which includes revisions to the Collaborators & Other Affiliations Information (new template) and Budget Justification (increasing from three to five pages).

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    • Change in IRB Training Requirements

      January 30, 2018

      There is an update in requirements to IRB Training.

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    • FY' 19 Fringe Benefits Rates

      January 30, 2018

      Drexel recently submitted its fringe benefit proposal to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to establish the fiscal year 2019 fringe benefit rates for sponsored projects. These rates are not final until we receive the official rate letter from HHS, however, we do not expect any significant changes when they are finalized.

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    • Final Rule (2018 Common Rule Revisions Delayed)

      January 30, 2018

      The compliance date for the Final Rule has been delayed until July 19, 2018.

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    • "Workspace" for Federal Proposal Submissions

      January 08, 2018

      As announced in the August issue of the Office of Research newsletter, legacy PDF applications are no longer being accepted by Grants.gov as of December 31, 2017. Instead, applications to federal agencies (other than NIH and NSF*) now must be submitted via the Grants.gov Workspace platform, a shared, online environment where multiple members of a grant team may simultaneously access different forms within an application. The platform will allow users to edit, save, upload, and submit applications via the cloud.

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