Policies & Compliance
Compliance Committees, Resources and Training
Research compliance ensures that all research activities follow applicable laws, regulations, ethical standards, and institutional policies. It protects researchers, human and animal subjects, our institution and the integrity of research itself.
At UW-Green Bay, these committees help protect our research:
- Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC): protects animal subjects.
- Institutional Research Board (IRB): protects human subjects.
- Institutional Biosafety Committee (IBC): protects researchers when dealing with recombinant DNA or synthetic nucleic acids.
Safety & Environmental Management
You can do everything right, and things can still go wrong. Safety & Environmental Management is here to provide you with the knowledge to know how to handle accidents to keep our community and environment safe.
CITI Training
UW-Green Bay provides resources and training regarding research compliance, responsible and ethical conduct of research, conflicts of interest, and a number of other relevant topics through the Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative (CITI).
Gifts & Contracts from Foreign Sources
While UW-Green Bay adheres to and follows the UW System Administrative Policies and Procedures, sometimes a bit more clarification on how specific issues impact the Green Bay campus is helpful. Policies and procedures are updated and added as necessary.
Section 117 of the Higher Education Act (HEA) requires that any institution that receives Title IV federal student aid must report any gifts received from, contracts with, and any ownership interest in a foreign source.
Export Controls
In the course of research, professional development, international travel or other activities, University employees may engage with foreign businesses, collaborate with colleagues from other countries, or engage in research involving foreign governments. As a result, employees need to be aware that these activities may have potential export control implications.
Intellectual Property
Researchers are required to disclose their discoveries and inventions from research conducted at UW-Green Bay. WiSys Technology Foundation serves as the technology transfer organization for the campus. Faculty, academic staff and students are encouraged to discuss patent and intellectual property issues with WiSys, the official designated technology transfer office for the Universities of Wisconsin Comprehensive Campuses. This independent non-profit supports research and assists Universities of Wisconsin campuses by protecting and licensing inventions created by Universities of Wisconsin researchers.
Disclosure to WiSys should occur prior to any public disclosure (e.g., oral presentation/slides, manuscript, conference abstract, poster presentation). In the U.S., patent law allows a researcher up to one year to protect their intellectual property; however, in other countries, patent rights are lost immediately upon public disclosure.
The role of external sources of support on an invention varies by sponsor. The intellectual property ownership for inventions developed with the assistance of federal funds (e.g., grant awards) are generally vested with the faculty and/or staff involved in the project. Universities of Wisconsin policy asks that each UW institution requires their principal investigators to disclose intellectual property developed with federal funds to the appropriate internal designee or the appropriate agency in a timely manner. To fulfill this requirement, UWGB principal investigators disclose such information through the proposal routing process.
Copyright
A copyright is a specific form of intellectual property protection that protects the expression of an idea, not the idea itself. A copyrightable work must be original and set down in a tangible or fixed form.
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