The Wallace Center has acquired an online resource that can help PIs with designing experiments and analysis methods.  The Encyclopedia of Research Design  is a resource intended for all users, particularly those from the social and behavioral sciences, but also for those interested in statistical techniques in general.  It is a reference tool for users who may be interested in learning more about a particular research technique (such as "control group" or "reliability").

RIT is affiliated with the Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative, or CITI, a subscription service providing research ethics education to members of the research community.  The CITI program offers courses in the responsible conduct of research including case studies and video segments.  The content is tailored separately for engineers, biomedical investigators, physical sciences research, humanities and social and behavioral sciences research.

Proposal submission through grants.gov is a multi-step process, culminating when the agency system receives your application from the grants.gov system.  Errors can occur at this step, and they are often not visible at the time of submission.  In order to accommodate applicants, NIH established a two-day window for error correction.  That window is closing in January 2011.

Almost all of these system errors are avoidable by timely proposal development and submission.  You can avoid submission errors by taking the following steps: 

1. What kinds of animal research can I do at RIT? 
   
   1. All proposed research with vertebrate animals (all fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals – except human) requires RIT IACUC (Institute Animal Care and Use Committee) advance notification and approval.

Remember your application is a public document.  Application titles, abstracts and statements of the public relevance or your research are read by reviewers, program officers and other agency staff.  Once funded, this information is also available to the public. It is essential that the public is able to learn about the research projects in which our nation is investing.

The RIT Principal Investigators Institute schedule for the 2011 - 2012 academic year is set.  All sessions are open to the RIT community.

The PI Institute is offered in cooperation with the RIT Center for Professional Development .