Join MSU’s upcoming Research Integrity & Compliance Conference and earn Responsible Conduct of Research (RCR) credits. Pick and choose sessions that interest you and for each session you attend earn one credit hour!

How Do I Get Credits Documented and will I Receive a Certificate?

During registration you will receive an “RCR Credit Sheet” listing all of the conference sessions that are applicable for RCR credits.  Once you have received the credit sheet bring the credit sheet to each session and the session moderator will stamp your sheet at the end of the session.  At the end of the conference turn your sheet into the main conference desk and you will receive a Certificate listing the RCR hours around a month after the conference.

Which Research Integrity & Compliance Conference Sessions are Candidates for RCR Credits?

  • Counterintelligence (Presented by FBI)
  • Collaboration with Montana Communities
  • Best Practices/Emerging Trends: Conflict of Interest, Foreign Influence, Export Control, and Information Security
  • Research Misconduct –“What is it? How does it happen? Could it happen to you?”
  • Conducting and Preparing for Off Campus Research
  • Compliance vs. Culture: How to Build a Successful Safety Culture
  • Lab Sustainability
  • Laboratory Emergency Preparedness
  • Mentor/Mentee Relationships “Setting Expectations”
  • IRB Roundtable
  • IACUC and IBC Roundtable
  • Health and Human Service Office of Research Integrity

What is Responsible Conduct of Research?

RCR is defined as the practice of scientific investigation with integrity and involves the awareness and application of established norms and ethical principles in the performance of all activities related to scientific research. Montana State University expects that all research be conducted to the highest ethical standards by faculty, students, and staff. MSU’s RCR training covers the core areas that are seen as significant in conducting research, including research misconduct, plagiarism, falsification, fabrication, data editing, authorship on manuscripts, conflict of interest, mentor-mentee relationships, and more. MSU training opportunities encourage critical thinking and engagement in discussions about what it means to be an ethical researcher.

RCR Training Requirements

NIH: Researchers receiving support through NIH training, career development award (individual or institutional), research education grants, and dissertation research grants must complete 8 hours of in person RCR training.

 

NSF: All NSF-supported undergraduate students, graduate students, and postdoctoral fellows engaged in research must complete RCR training. Training can be in person or through online mechanisms such asCITI RCR training.