The Institutional Review Board is a local review board, established by the Western Michigan University Board of Trustees in accord with federal regulations, to interpret and apply federal regulations, ...

IN spite of the frequency with which operational research has been referred to recently, there are extremely few published discussions from which the layman can obtain an idea of what it is 1. Its ...

Three fundamental principles guide the ethical conduct of research involving human subjects. These principles come from The Belmont Report, a statement of basic ethical principles and guidelines that ...

Western Michigan University fosters a research environment to promote respect for the rights and welfare of individuals involved in human subject research. Actions of the university will be guided by ...

Investigators must use Cayuse to electronically submit new research studies for review and approval, course approvals, continuing research requests, amendments to approved research studies, and ...