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Export Control update - FBI travel guidance

The FBI recently released travel guidance for faculty and students planning to travel outside the U.S. or  to study abroad.  This guidance is aimed at protecting academic research and to ensure...

Posted: July 1, 2015, 8:58 PM

Animal Sentinel Program

The IACUC has recently updated its guidance regarding the use of sentinel animals in rodent housing areas to assure that the colony remains free of specific pathogens.  UMBC's Attending...

Posted: June 11, 2015, 1:32 PM

Updates to ORPC forms and documents

To continue our outreach and providing the most up to date templates for our investigators to use, please click on the ORPC Documents and Forms page to download the most current versions. Please...

Posted: May 28, 2015, 4:51 PM

New staff in ORPC

We are pleased to announce a new member of our compliance group in the Office of Research Protections and Compliance.  Toye Jenkins joined OPRC on May 19 as a compliance specialist. Toye comes...

Posted: May 20, 2015, 5:37 PM

Invitation to Apply to Be an Undergraduate Member of the IRB

Academic Year 2015-2016

The Institutional Review Board (IRB), the formally designated UMBC committee to approve, monitor, and review research involving humans is currently accepting applications from students to join....

Posted: April 24, 2015, 2:00 PM