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Faculty Research

The Faculty Research Committee shall consist of one faculty member from each college and school. The chairs of the Institutional Biosafety Committee, the Institutional Review Board for Protection of Human Subjects in Research, and the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee shall serve as ex-officio members of the committee. The Associate Provost and Vice President for Research, the Associate Vice President for Research, and the Graduate Dean shall serve as non-voting, ex-officio members of the committee. All faculty members shall serve three-year staggered terms. The committee chair shall be selected from among the twelve faculty representatives.

The committee shall be responsible for bringing research related concerns to the Vice President for Research, and for reporting appropriate research matters and policies back to the Senate.

Faculty:
     One faculty member from each college and school.

Continuing/Ex-officio: The chairs of:

• the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee,
• the Institutional Biosafety Committee, and
• the Institutional Review Board for Protection of Human Subjects in Research (HS IRB and SB IRB)

Non-voting/Ex-officio:

• the Associate Provost and Vice President for Research,
• the Associate Vice President for Research,
• and the Graduate Dean

Members

• Chair, Chris Newland, College of Liberal Arts, Psychology – 2013
• Veena Chattaraman, College of Human Sciences – 2013
• Randall Clark, Harrison School of Pharmacy – 2013
• Wayne Gary Martin, College of Education – 2013
• Francine Parker, School of Nursing – 2013
• Ya-Xiong Tao, Vet Medicine – 2014
• Covadonga Arias, Agriculture/Horticulture >– 2014
• Charlene LeBleu, Architecture, Design & Construction – 2014
• Chetan Sankar, College of Business – 2014
• Scott Santos, COSAM – 2015
• David Bevly, College of Engineering – 2015
• Art Chappelka, Forestry & Wildlife Sciences – 2015

Continuing/Ex-officio:

• Chair of Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee, James Bannon
• Chair of Institutional Biosafety Committee, Frederik Van Ginkel
• Chair of Health Sciences IRB - Kathy Jo Ellison (Nursing)
• Chair of Social and Behavioral IRB - Chris Correia (Psychology)
  

Non-voting/Ex-officio:

• John Mason, Associate Provost and Vice President for Research
• Carl Pinkert, Associate Vice President for Research
• George Crandell, Graduate School Dean