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The National Security Presidential Memorandum-33 (NSPM-33), issued in January 2021, directed federal agencies that fund research and development (R&D) projects to require certain "Covered Institutions" to certify that the...more
Don’t miss our annual conference devoted to higher education and research compliance - Attend the Higher Education & Healthcare Research Compliance Conference June 10–12, 2024 and hear from experienced professionals on a...more
Report on Research Compliance 20, no. 11 (November, 2023) It wasn't just China. China is among the countries whose support for Stanford University investigators wasn’t reported to five federal research funding agencies,...more
Report on Research Compliance 20, no. 11 (November, 2023) City University of New York (CUNY ) has accused neuroscientist Hoau-Yan Wang, a CUNY faculty member and longtime collaborator with embattled biotech firm Cassava...more
U.S. Department of Education Takes Action Against Five Schools for Disbursing Federal Student Aid to Students Enrolled in Unaccredited Programs - “The settlement agreements include the payment of liabilities for all five...more
One university lost 14 awards; another, four. An investigator was suspended governmentwide. A public institution paid back more than $850,000, while two others returned nearly a million dollars....more
After reviewing recommendations from its Office of Inspector General (OIG), the National Science Foundation (NSF) required Yale University to repay $172,213 of the $251,973 auditors flagged in a 2020 report. According to a...more
Last month, former University of Kansas Professor Feng “Franklin” Tao was sentenced to time served and two years of supervised release for making false statements in the University of Kansas’s conflict of interest and...more
Alice C. Chang, formerly an associate professor of basic medical sciences in the College of Veterinary Medicine at Purdue University, “falsified and/or fabricated data from the same mouse models or cell lines by reusing the...more
Report on Research Compliance 19, no.8 (August, 2022) - An audit of San Francisco State University (SFSU) by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Office of Inspector General (OIG) that tested more than $1.9 million of...more
Report on Research Compliance 19, no. 7 (July, 2022) - Given the already “heavy …burden” faced by small institutions and the National Science Foundation's (NSF) low award rate, the Council on Governmental Relations (COGR)...more
Report on Research Compliance 19 no. 6 (June, 2022) - Auditors for the National Science Foundation (NSF) Office of Inspector General (OIG) questioned $35,316 of costs claimed by the University of Idaho (UI) among $42.7...more
Report on Research Compliance 19, no. 5 (May, 2022) - Nearly a decade after irregularities were first noticed in clinical trials that ultimately led to a misconduct finding and a guilty plea for embezzlement, the HHS...more
Report on Research Compliance 19, no. 5 (May, 2022) - In an address at George Mason University in February, U.S. Assistant Attorney General Matthew Olsen said the government had “heard concerns from the civil rights...more
Report on Research Compliance 19, no. 2 (January 27, 2022) - While expressing their “great disappointment,” the University of Michigan (U-M) Board of Regents on Jan. 16 announced the immediate removal of Mark Schlissel as...more
Report on Research Compliance 19, no. 1 (January, 2022) - Although a continuing resolution is now in place that funds the federal government through Feb. 18, committees are still working on bills that could contain...more
Report on Research Compliance 19, no. 1 (January, 2022) - During the second half of fiscal year 2021, which ended Sept. 30, the National Science Foundation (NSF) collected more than $2.5 million from six universities and...more
Report on Research Compliance 18, no. 11 (November, 2021) - A professor in the University of Washington (UW) College of Engineering allegedly falsified award documents submitted to the National Science Foundation (NSF)...more
Report on Research Compliance 18, no. 11 (November, 2021) - If a timeline announced by the White House is met, universities and others should receive guidance later this month on securing the research enterprise as the...more
Report on Research Compliance 18, no. 10 (October, 2021) - A University of Texas at Austin principal investigator (PI) who, in the words of the National Science Foundation Office of Inspector General (OIG), “generally...more
Report on Research Compliance 18, no. 9 (September, 2021) - A former Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) researcher who was the principal investigator on a 2014 NIH award of $939,495.27 and...more
Report on Research Compliance 18, no. 8 (August, 2021) - “As a steward of the nation’s biomedical research enterprise, NIH is dedicated to ensuring that when data and biospecimens are shared, that it is done ethically and...more
Report on Research Compliance 18, no. 4 (April 2021) - A new report by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine examining the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic found “intensified complications related...more
Report on Research Compliance 18, no. 3 (March 2021) - A principal investigator (PI) who was initially accused of one instance of plagiarism noted that he had similarly copied text into two other National Science...more
Report on Research Compliance 18, no. 1 (January 2021) - The National Science Foundation (NSF) will be accepting comments on a revised version of its Proposal & Award Policies & Procedures Guide (PAPPG) expected to be...more