IRB Newsletters
Published periodically to assist students and other new researchers in the preparation of their human participant protocols, these newsletters also contain new and changing regulations in human participant research as well as other information of interest to researchers.
July - August 2007
ORIA Office Moving to East Hill Office Building/Exemptions From IRB Review/Program Evaluations and Other Activities:When Are They "Research"?/Research for Course Instruction
May - June 2007
Changes in the Human Research Protection Program/Decision Tree for Projects That Do Not Need To Be Submitted to the IRB/Does Student Research Require IRB Approval?
Autumn 2005
UCHS is moving to 35 Thornwood Drive / Clinical trial registration / Do NOT request Social Security numbers for subject payments / Conducting research in public schools / Guidelines for human embryonic stem cell research (2005) / Are you offering your subjects copies of their signed consent forms? / Restricted Access Data Agreements / Transcription Services / Announcement (from CISER)
Spring 2005
Conducting research abroad / Are identities really kept private?? / Need to know if your students have passed the UCHS training? / Accreditation process update / Undergraduate class projects involving contact or interaction with identifiable human subjects / Coding your data / Turnaround time on applications
September 2004
Accreditation of Human Research Protection Programs: What it means to you (the investigator) / Investigator education requirements are being stepped up / *NEW* Performance Agreement and Release Form / Tips on determining if your protocol will require a full committee review / General Principles for Evaluating Oral History type Activities / Human Subject Exemption Categories
May 2004
Photography (and other types of recording) in human subjects research / Tips for describing "the design of your research and planned use of human subjects" on your approval request form / Consent form lingo / Do you need to renew your human subjects approval? / Renewal application consent forms / Certificates of Confidentiality: Protecting your subjects' privacy / DHHS guidelines on "Financial relationships and interests in research involving human subjects: Guidance for human subject protection"
March 2004
Increasing parental consent response rates / Ideas for making a study "exempt from further review / Hidden videotaping / How to construct a good consent form (primarily for students) / Recruiting Cornell faculty and staff as research participants