So you’ve submitted your budget and proposal to the sponsor, now what happens? There are many steps to accepting and setting up an award, and this course will unlock the mystery. Discussion focuses on pre-award negotiations and actions such as revised budgets and advance spending; the award acceptance process; post-award management issues, including project changes, budgeting, subawards and subaward monitoring; cost sharing obligations; and fulfilling project reporting obligations.
Research Coordinator
USC FERPA Awareness
The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) of 1974 is a federal law regarding the privacy of student education records and establishes requirements related to the release of the records and the access provided to the records. As a leading educational institution, it is important that the Trojan community is aware of the USC FERPA policy and practices related to student education records. By taking this course, you will gain information on how to respond to student privacy issues and what you can do to protect the privacy of student information.
HIPAA Compliance and You
Course covers all aspects of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and the protection of the privacy of individually identifiable health information. PLEASE NOTE: This does not replace the “Research HIPAA” course.
Export Controls at USC: An Introduction
This introductory course is designed to enable researchers and other employees to understand the kinds of activities that may raise export control considerations so that they can proactively engage with the Office of Ethics and Compliance (OEC) for guidance on whether the regulations apply in specific situations. The target audience for the course is USC faculty and staff who conduct restricted research, and research units and other departments affected by export controls. The course must be completed in Trojan Learn.
Animal Care and Use Training Refresher
In addition to the initial training course, the IACUC requires that each investigator offer an annual animal refresher course using the materials on dar.usc.edu on animal care and use at USC to their laboratory staff on an annual basis. A DAR veterinarian is also available, on request, to perform this training instead of the investigator. Please email a DAR veterinarian to schedule this. Note that completion of the annual refresher training is mandatory for all labs utilizing animals in research. However, do not send your checklist or personnel sign in sheet to the Department of Animal Resources. This documentation must be maintained with your laboratory records and must be available for inspection by the IACUC on request.
Social-Behavioral Human Subjects (Spanish)
This web-based course is offered through the Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative (CITI Program). CITI will add soon Human Subject Research Protections (HSR) Social Behavioral Refresher (Spanish) (to be taken every 3 years). An HSR-SB (Spanish) Refresher is not yet available from CITI. There is no anticipated date of availability. Recertification remains every 3 years.