COE Educational Research and Budgeting Office
Guidelines & Requirements
Guidelines
The following are links to applicable documents. Researchers should be familiar with their contents. The ERB Assistant Director will suggest documents that are appropriate by type of grant application. All researchers should be familiar with the requiremets of the NMSU Policy and Business Procedures Manuals.
OMB (Office of Management & Budget) circulars applicable to IHEs: OMB circulars applicable to IHEs
NMSU Business Procedures Manual
Requirements
- Any research that will involve human participants MUST receive IRB approval. The requirements and approval process options change from time to time. Consult the website, Institutional Review Board, when preparing a grant, and be sure to include any necessary requirements. Note that when a grant is submitted to the NSF, the NIH, and an increasing number of funding institutions, there is a checkbox that must be completed and that indicates the current status of the project's IRB application. IRB approval MUST be obtained before grant activities can commence.
- The IRB approval process REQUIRES that researchers complete in computer-based training course at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) . This training takes approximately 1 hour to complete. (Train) Check the IRB page to determine whether you should print the certificate of completion to be included with your application.