Policy, Regulation, and Guidance

Ethical and responsible conduct of research is essential for excellence, as well as public trust, in science. SMU supports its research community in upholding the highest ethical and professional standards in carrying out its work and imparting these standards to future generations of scientists and researchers through education and training. SMU offers Responsible Conduct of Research (RCR) Training in alignment with requirements provided in , updated by America COMPETES Act (2022), as amended by the CHIPS and Science Act (2022), and detailed in the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) (PAPPG).

Questions? Contact Research Integrity & Compliance (RIC) at

researchcompliance@smu.edu

  • National Science Foundation’s (NSF)
  • National Institute of Health (NIH) Notice Number: , “Update on the Requirement for Instruction in the Responsible Conduct of Research”

  • (National Academy of Sciences): provides additional information on the responsible and ethical conduct of research

  • - an interactive movie by the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services’ Office of Research Integrity
  • , Revised Edition (Aug. 2007) - Nicholas H. Steneck, Ph.D., Illustrations by David Zinn
  • , Third Edition - Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 2009
  • - Jane A. Steinberg. Observer, a publication by the Association for Psychological Science, Vol. 15 No. 1 (January 2002)