Title

Your IRB: Educating Students, Monitoring Student Research, and Safeguarding Students as Research Subjects

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

Spring 2008

Abstract

The purposes of this article are to inform youabout the formation of your school’s Institutional Review Board (IRB), to present examples ofresearch that IRBs often encounter, to elevateawareness of human subjects research concernsfor faculty and staff, and to discuss how emergingrequirements for science competitions may affectschools, staff and students.