Compliance/Training
Required Approvals
While developing your proposal, it's important to determine whether your project requires prior approval from a university compliance committee.
If your research involves human subjects, animals, biohazards, drone usage, or may result in intellectual property, OSP requires proof of application to the appropriate committee before your proposal can be submitted to the funding agency.
If your proposal is awarded, a formal approval letter must be received and forwarded to OSP before any project work begins.
Projects involving human subjects (e.g. surveys, interviews, medical studies) require IRB approval to ensure ethical standards and participant protections.
Please visit the IRB site for more information on the policies, procedures, and application.
Projects or research involving animal subjects require prior IACUC approval prior to proposal submission. Animal use cannot begin until the approval letter is received.
Please visit the IACUC site for more information on the policies, procedures, and application.
Research and projects that include biological hazards, such as infectious agents or recombinant DNA, require prior approval before research can begin.
Please visit the Laboratory Safety site for more information on the Chemical Hygiene Plan.
If your project involves creating inventions, software, materials, or scholarly works, you must follow Murray State's Intellectual Property Policy. Disclosure is required for all sponsored projects.
Please visit the Intellectual Property Policy for more information.
If your project involves drone usage, you must follow Murray State鈥檚 official drone policy. All drone-related activities require prior approval.
Please visit the Remotely Operated Aircraft System/Drone Policy for more information.