The Office of Research Compliance (ORC) has published the Fall 2025 edition of the Research Compliance Newsletter. View the Fall 2025 newsletter online. This edition includes the following topics: Subscribe to the Research Compliance Newsletter to receive future newsletters directly in your email inbox.
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As highlighted in a recent press release, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence’s (ODNI) National Counterintelligence and Security Center (NCSC) and its federal partners issued new guidance in its Safeguarding Academia bulletin (PDF) to alert U.S. academic community about increasing foreign threats to research and to provide mitigation strategies for addressing these threats. All members of the […]
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The following message was sent via email to all University of Maine employees on October 28, 2025 by the Office of the Vice President for Research and Dean of the Graduate School. The National Science Foundation (NSF) Important Notice 149: Updates to NSF’s Research Security Policies includes a requirement for Responsible Conduct of Research (RCR) training […]
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The Office of Research Compliance will be offering online Responsible Conduct of Research training for undergraduate students on Brightspace from October 27th to December 5th, 2025. Undergraduate students who are participating in research sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF), the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and/or the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture […]
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The following message was sent via email to all University of Maine employees on September 18, 2025 by the Office of the Vice President for Research and Dean of the Graduate School. This communication is a follow up to the April 17, 2025 notice about a new Research Security Training Requirement implemented by the U.S. Department of […]
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The University of Maine Policies and Procedures for the Protection of Human Subjects of Research (PDF) was recently updated as of July 31, 2025. All persons involved with human subjects research should read this revised policy. Major changes to the policy include: For more information on human subjects research and the Institutional Review Board (IRB), […]
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On July 17, 2025, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) issued notice NOT-OD-25-132 Supporting Fairness and Originality in NIH Research Applications (external link). The notice primarily addresses the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the NIH application process, with a new policy becoming effective September 25, 2025. This NIH notice decisively limits the use of […]
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On June 18, 2025, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) issued notice NIH NOT-OD-25-127 Implementation Update: Terminating or Suspending Dangerous Gain-of-Function Research in Accordance with the Executive Order on Improving the Safety and Security of Biological Research (external link). Within this notice, NIH provided the following definition of “dangerous gain-of-function research”: “Dangerous gain-of-function research means scientific […]
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The Office of Research Compliance is in the process of transitioning to a new electronic system. Cayuse will replace the current way IRB (Institutional Review Board) applications are submitted for review. Cayuse provides the following features: More information is coming soon!
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The Office of Research Compliance will be offering online Responsible Conduct of Research training for undergraduate students on Brightspace from June 2nd to July 6th, 2025. Undergraduate students who are participating in research sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF), the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and/or the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of […]
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