The Institutional Review Board is a local review board, established by the Western Michigan University Board of Trustees in accord with federal regulations, to interpret and apply federal regulations, ...

The Federal government requires that faculty, staff, and students who carry out human subjects research have received training in the ethical conduct of such research before beginning their roles in ...

Research means a systematic investigation, including research development, testing, and evaluation, designed to develop or contribute to generalizable knowledge. Human subject means a living ...

The Office for Human Research Protections (OHRP) has provided decision charts to determine if a research project involving human subjects must be reviewed by an institutional research board. The ...

Purpose: Occasionally, external research personnel perform services that would not qualify them to count as officially part of the “research team.” However, situations are not always clear when those ...

The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences will host the first-ever Humanities Week where different schools will organize events to promote and celebrate humanities subjects at the University from Oct.

It’s no secret that humanities subjects — which include English, history, ethnic and cultural studies, comparative literature, art history and philosophy — tend to be regarded with less respect ...

Human Subjects research proposals should be submitted through the ROAMWyo system. For any questions regarding the submission process or other IRB-related matters ...