Tag: rcra

  • Mandatory Research Security Training Requirement – Effective December 1, 2025

    Author: Deepika Bhatia, AVP, RCRA To align with evolving federal agency requirements, Emory implemented a mandatory Research Security (RS) training on December 1, 2025. This initiative is in accordance with federal mandates and will coincide with the Annual Certification Cycle, which runs from December 1, 2025, through February 29, 2026. This training is a key component of…

  • Mandatory Research Security Training Requirement – Effective November 1, 2025

    Dear Faculty, We are writing to inform you of a new mandatory Research Security (RS) training requirement that was implemented at Emory on November 1, 2025, in alignment with federal mandates. Why is this training required? This training is mandated by the CHIPS and Science Act of 2022 and NSPM-33, and is increasingly being included…

  • Coming in May 2025: Investigators Must Use SciENcv To Format NIH and NSF Personnel Documents

    Authors: Deepika Bhatia, AVP, (RCRA) & Kimberly Eck, Sr. AVP, (SVPR) SciENcv is an application in My NCBI that helps you create and manage documents in support of grant applications with participating agencies. In SciENcv you can document your education, employment, research activities, publications, honors, research grants, and other professional contributions. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sciencv/ For NIH: Biosketches…

  • Message from VPRA, Dr. Robert Nobles (March 2024)

    Greetings and welcome to Spring! As many of you are returning or anticipating a Spring break, I hope that the time you take allows you to rest, reflect and rejuvenate for a strong finish to the academic year. As I look at your phenomenal efforts and the progress we’ve made as an institution in research…

  • RCRA Minimizing Administrative Burden While Maintaining Compliance

    Author: Deepika Bhatia, AVP, RCRA Minimizing administrative burden in research while ensuring compliance with regulations is a critical challenge for research compliance teams. Here are a few strategies from the Emory Research Compliance & Regulatory Affairs (RCRA) team to achieve this balance:  Operationalizing streamlined processes, efficient communications to relevant stakeholders early and often, striving for an approach to…

  • Research Compliance News and Updates (January 2024)

    By Deepika Bhatia, Associate Vice President, RCRA Research Compliance News and Updates from Your Research Compliance & Regulatory Affairs Team For ongoing updates on new policies and research regulatory topics, join us on the third Thursday of every month to Ask RCRA! Here’s our quarterly newsletter with news you can use –  https://rcra.emory.edu/_includes/documents/newsletter-docs/october-2023-rcra-newsletter.pdf We are…

  • NIH Workplace Conduct Requirements

    NIH supports safe and respectful work environments that are free from harassment, including sexual harassment, discrimination, or other forms of inappropriate conduct that can result in a hostile work environment. Learn who to contact with questions or concerns, and what NIH’s expectations are for institutions and the individuals supported on NIH-funded awards.  In accordance with…

  • ORCiD IDs @ Emory

    ORCID iDs–or Open Researcher and Contributor Identifiers–are unique identifiers that you can use to ensure you are always correctly associated with and connected to your academic work. The iDs help Emory staff, funders, publishers, scholarly societies, and other researchers quickly find and distinguish your work from materials created by other researchers with similar names. ORCID iDs are being used increasingly by…

  • Malign Foreign Talent Programs

    The CHIPS and Science Act prohibits federal employees, contractors, and awardees, including institutions, individual investigators, and other key personnel from participating in malign foreign talent recruitment programs(MFTRPs). A malign foreign talent recruitment program is a talent program requiring one or more problematic actions and having problematic sponsorship. Not all talent recruitment programs are malign. Visit https://rcra.emory.edu/research-security/foreign-talent-recruitment-programs.html for more details if…

  • Federal Interim Rule Implements TikTok Ban on Devices Used in the Performance of Federal Contracts

    A new Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR 52.204-27) clause prohibits federal contractors and subcontractors from “having or using” the social networking service TikTok or any “successor application” developed by ByteDance, a Chinese internet technology company headquartered in Beijing, on any information technology system used or provided by the contractor in the performance of a government contract.…