All research involving human subjects must be reviewed by the Institutional Review Board - Human Subjects Protection Committee. During the review process various guidelines are used in reviewing the research protocol to ensure that it is in compliance with federal and state regulations, and in accordance with Delaware State University's institutional assurance compliance filed with the Office for Protection from Research Risks (OPRR). Submission of a protocol to the IRB - Human Subjects Protection Committee and subsequent approval of the project means that the IRB - Human Subjects Protection Committee has found the protocol to conform to scientific, ethical and legal standards for research involving human subjects. All survey forms that entail research activities that may involve little or no risk to subjects must be submitted to the Office of Sponsored Programs (OSP), building 502. Funded, including non-funded research projects, must also be submitted to the OSP. For more information, please visit the Proposals/Grant Forms page or contact Mr. Dennis Rubino in the Office of Sponsored Programs at (302) 857-6834 or at drubino@desu.edu.

There are many benefits to writing grants for the university and your Department. Not only do you improve the academic structure of the University and your community through research, but you as the Principal Investigator (PI) benefit as well. There are three incentives to writing grants. Release Time When proposals are submitted and funded, the Principal Investigator (PI) is given release time from his/her academic responsibilities such as classroom instruction to run the funded program. A percentage of his/her classroom instruction is reassigned to other faculty members and that percentage of time will then be used to carry out the objectives of the grant. This percentage and amount has to be approved by the faculty member, Chair and Dean. PI Account/Indirect Costs The Administrative Council has approved the following policy for using indirect costs. When proposals are funded, regardless of the overhead rate, the unit sponsoring the grant/contract will receive 40% of the overhead/indirect cost, the Office of Sponsored Programs will receive 10% and the University will receive 50% of the overhead/indirect cost. If the unit is a school, the overhead/indirect cost money returned shall be distributed as follows: The school will be awarded 5% The department will be awarded 5%; and The Principal Investigator (PI) will receive 30% If the unit is not a school, the overhead/indirect cost money shall be distributed as follows: The budget unit will be awarded 5% The department in which the PI has academic rank will be awarded 5%; and The PI will receive 30% None of the indirect cost money can be used to augment departmental salary lines with the exception of student workers or graduate student assistants. Any cost sharing required shall be deducted in the proportion set forth above. Asset for Promotion and Tenure Writing winning proposals can benefit you during the funded periods as well as years down the road. The PI can include the funded proposal in his/her promotion and tenure portfolio. The PI will also be able to reference the funded grant on his/her curriculum vita when seeking promotions and/or positions within the University or external to the University.

All animal-use protocols involving vertebrate animals conducted or sponsored by Delaware State University must be submitted for campus Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC) review, approval, and periodic review in accordance with campus policies and procedures which are required by federal law. Review of animal-use protocols may be subject to further appropriate review and approval by officials of the University. These officials may not, however, approve an activity involving the care and use of animals if the campus IACUC has not approved it. All faculty and staff using animals in teaching and/or research purposes should download a copy of the  IACUC Approval Application. This document identifies the requirements and procedures for obtaining approval of animal-use protocols. An animal-use project may not begin until the principal investigator has been notified that the animal-use protocol has been approved by the campus IACUC and a protocol number has been assigned by the IACUC Committee. A completed copy of the application should be forwarded to Dr. Dennis McIntosh in the College of Agriculture and Related Sciences. For more information on IACUC, please all (302) 857-6456 or (302) 857-6834.

Graduate School is about research and teaching. It is a time for structured exploration and analysis of a topic you value. It is learning and working in an environment that supports your scholarship, enriches your perspectives, and challenges your ideas. Your research is a reflection of your ideas and work, further shaped by the intellectual influences of professors and other students in your department. Being a Graduate Student provides you with the means and materials for an in depth study. You will have better access to research and library materials. You will have better access to laboratories. You will have a closer relation to faculty. With all these available, you will find no shortage of ideas and questions to explore. Graduate School Teaching Assistantships provide valuable experience. Since the goal of the McNair Scholars program is to have our Scholars become professors, it only makes sense that we encourage them to become great teachers. While we offer teaching seminars and collaborations with faculty members, there is no substitute for Graduate teaching experience. Your quality and quantity of teaching experience will be taken into consideration when applying for a faculty position later on. Here is where you can make the most of your education, by facing the challenges and rewards of classroom presentation. Graduate School Research Assistantships will give you direct experience in your field. The skills acquired here will be directly applicable to your future employment. Want to be a chemist? Here's the acid test. Want to be an anthropologist? Here's your chance to enter the field under the guidance of a seasoned ethnographer. Being a Graduate Student means entering a world of scholarly exchange that will forever inform your intellectual work. Opportunity As a graduate student you are given direct access to faculty and other professionals in your field. It is an opportunity to present yourself and your ideas to a network of people with similar backgrounds and goals and another opportunity to put your foot in the door at professional academic conferences, enabling you to meet academic influential power players of your time. Upon obtaining your PhD, a better world exposes itself. Many will seek you out, to present your research at various conferences and you will be read about or quoted by many in various journals and articles. What does the Ph.D., do? It tells everyone how capable you are. This is the door that is opened with the key of success. Self-Improvement Graduate school teaches: personal strength, confidence, expansion of educational skills, discovering your boundaries, putting your mindset into action, and discovering freshness within one’s self. All of these transformations will help you personally, academically, and professionally, as you get ready for your line of work. A list of fee waivers for graduate applications and fellowships for McNair Scholars is available from the University of Rochester. A list of America's best colleges, universities, and graduate school programs can be found on the US News website. GRE News @ DSU The Ronald E. McNair Post Baccalaureate Achievement program provides GRE fee waivers for Delaware State University McNair Scholars. Contact the program office at 302-857-6128 or McNair.scholars@desu.edu for details.  Why is the GRE  Important The Graduate Record Examination is designed to test the overall academic ability of a student. The examination focuses on a student’s core abilities: verbal reasoning, quantitative reasoning and analytical writing. Graduate Schools place an emphasis on the GRE, because it is considered to assess a student’s academic aptitude.   McNair Online Resources GRE Online Kaplan Online Practice Tests “Number Two” GRE Tutorial Princeton Review The GRE Companion —  The GRE Companion provides personal tutoring, with immediate feedback on every incorrect answer. It automatically adapts to your personal skill level and can even remind you via e-mail of what's best to study next! Each time you log on you'll be taken to your own homepage that tracks how much you've studied, and how well you're doing. You will also be able to use our vocabulary builder which challenges you to learn new words and allows you to build up your own set of electronic flashcards. Vocabulary Builders Number 2 Vocab Builder GRE Test Centers GRE Online

“Research” is what happens when you pair curiosity with knowledge, inspiration, perspiration and determination. The mission of the Office of the Associate Provost for Research (OAPR) is “to provide to those individuals who are admitted quality research opportunities and experiences that are consistent with the overall University Commitment.” The Research Division is also responsible for maintaining an infrastructure within a supportive environment that encourages both faculty and students to produce research with results that are making our world better every day (see Mission , Vision, Goals for more info). Join us in our quest for “new knowledge.” Prestigious research projects underway by DSU faculty members serve to enhance DSU's land-grant mission and its contributions to the nation's research efforts. View a sampling of ongoing research activity to see some of the interesting research going on at DSU. The Office of Sponsored Programs has more information about research and grant opportunities. DSU’s Hydrogen Storage Research Center The primary focus of the Hydrogen Storage Research Center is finding novel materials that can store and release large quantities of hydrogen gas at moderate temperatures and pressures. These materials can be used on board vehicles for hydrogen fuel cell applications. Materials are being sought that will absorb at least 6 wt. % hydrogen by the year 2010 and 9 wt. % by 2015 (DOE objective). The Research Center is involved in all aspects of hydrogen storage research including: fabricating and testing the hydrogen storage materials determining the amount of hydrogen that can be absorbed and released from these materials determining their thermodynamic stability finding catalysts that are suitable for certain reactions measuring the kinetics of uptake and release, and performing modeling studies to determine the mechanism that controls the reaction rates. Dr. Andrew Goudy, who has over 25 years of experience in this area, heads the Hydrogen Storage Research Center.   

The Ethics Resource Site Archives of Public Events Q.E.D.: Natural Science Symposia-2013 Q.E.D.: Natural Science Symposia -2012 (PDF)       More photos>>>   Q.E.D.:  Natural Science Symposia - 2011 (PDF) 2011 Schedule:  A Series of Informal Presentations, in an Informal Environment, on Research in the Natural Sciences.     Q.E.D.: Natural Science Symposia - 2010 (PDF) 2010 Schedule:  A Series of Informal Presentations, in an Informal Environment, on Research in the Natural Sciences. Ethical Challenges in Scientific Research - February 11, 2008 Dr. John F. Ahearne, Executive Director Emeritus of the Sigma Xi: The Scientific Research Society, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina delivered a presentation on "The Many Ethical Challenges in Scientific Research" on Monday, February 11, 2008 at 3:00 p.m at Delaware State University, Science Center North-117. Forum on Immigration - January 24, 2007 On Wednesday, 24 January 2007, The Ethics Resource Site sponsored "A Forum on Immigration."  Forum panelists included: Elaine Archangelo, Director, Delaware Division of Social Services; Jeanne Cashman, Executive Director, Sojourner's Place; Madeline Welch, Attorney, Community Legal Aid Society; and Louisa Terrell, Deputy Chief of Staff for U.S. Senator Joseph R. Biden.  This forum was held at 7:00 p.m. in the Longwood Auditorium of the School of Management Building on the campus of Delaware State University in Dover, and was free and open to the public.  Each of the forum panelists (from the perspective of her own area of expertise) was expected to do the following: to identify and explain some important features of the immigration process, to identify (in order to dispel) some popular misconceptions concerning immigration, and to identify some ethical issues concerning immigration and/or immigrants. Global Climate Change - November 14, 2006 Anthony C. Janetos, Director of the Joint Global Change Research Institute delivered a presentation on "Global Climate Change" on Tuesday, November 14, 2006, at 7:00 p.m., in the Longwood Auditorium of the School of Management Building. This presentation, "Global and Regional Issues in Global Change," was designed to demonstrate, scientifically, the impact of global climate change on the environment (including the local environment of Delaware as a coastal state), to enumerate some measures that individual people can take in order to mitigate some of the negative effects of global climate change, and to identify some ethical issues that are raised by the current conditions of global climate change. Dr. Janetos graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College with a bachelor's degree in biology, and earned both a master's degree and a Ph.D. in biology from Princeton University.

THE ETHICS RESOURCE SITE was established at Delaware State University as an intrinsic part of the Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR): Research Infrastructure Improvement (RII-1). Funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), with a 50% match from the State of Delaware, this program was designed to improve the scientific research infrastructure throughout the state of Delaware. THE ETHICS RESOURCE SITE is maintained as a result of the EPSCoR: RII-2 grant, which is funded by the NSF (with a match by the State of Delaware). Administered by the Delaware Environmental Institute (DENIN), this program continues as a partnership of the following institutions of higher learning: the University of Delaware, Delaware State University, Wesley College, and Delaware Technical and Community College. Each of these partner institutions has its own unique, but complementary, project that, when taken in conjunction, advances the various strategic imperatives of the grant, the major focus of which is “to achieve a sustainable environment while ensuring a prosperous economy,” and the title of which is: “Building Research and Education Infrastructure to Enhance Environmental Science and its Application in Delaware.” Through the auspices of the EPSCoR: RII-2 collaborative agreement, the Center for Integrated Biological and Environmental Research (CIBER) has been established at Delaware State University. Housed in the College of Agriculture and Related Sciences, CIBER serves as the hub of a network of natural scientific researchers from all four of the Delaware EPSCoR partner institutions of higher learning. In addition to a director and staff to conduct the day-to-day activities, a Core Implementation Team and an Advisory Board serve to guide the on-going inter-institutional collaboration of research faculty in their efforts to secure grants, to conduct cutting edge natural scientific research, and to engage in educational and other outreach activities for the benefit of the citizens of the state of Delaware. THE ETHICS RESOURCE SITE was established at Delaware State University as a repository of expertise in normative ethical theory and in applied ethics, in areas that include (but are not limited to): Environmental Ethics, Bioethics (i.e., ethical issues that arise in the biological sciences as well as those that arise in the field of health care),  Ethics in Technology, and Business Ethics. A main purpose of THE ETHICS RESOURCE SITE is to serve the citizens of the state of Delaware in, at least, two fundamental ways: first, to raise awareness concerning ethical issues with which people are confronted in their daily lives (both public and private), and second, to address the needs of a variety of groups of people with respect to the clarification of ethical concepts and the understanding of ethical issues, both of which are relevant to such groups of people (e.g., people who share the same occupational, social, or ethnic concerns). Lectures, Forums and Panel Discussions In an effort to raise the awareness of members of the community-at-large regarding social issues that impact our daily lives as well as to promote an understanding of the ethical concerns and a clarification of the ethical concepts that are inherent in such issues, public lectures, forums, and panel discussions are sponsored by THE ETHICS RESOURCE SITE. Ethics Seminars for Researchers, Faculty and Students In addition to serving the community-at-large, another purpose of THE ETHICS RESOURCE SITE is to offer seminars and courses (on ethical issues that are relevant to researchers in the natural sciences) for faculty, post-doctoral research fellows, graduate students, and undergraduate students from the partner institutions who are engaged in research activities which are related to the Delaware EPSCoR program. Professional Ethics Consulting Service For employees of governmental agencies, employees of business enterprises, members of professional associations, and members of other such organizations, THE ETHICS RESOURCE SITE conducts the following types of activities:   Ethics Seminars – which focus on specific ethical issues or topics that would normally be custom-designed for particular groups, Ethics Courses – which offer a more extensive learning experience on any of a number of professional ethics issues, and Ethics Conferences – which are designed for members of professional associations or similar organizations, and which can carry continuing education credit for members of such associations.  

"Sharing Innovative Research since 2006"   On behalf of Delaware State University, it is indeed a pleasure for us to welcome you to the Innovative Technologies Breakfast (ITB)website and extend an invitation for you to attend the bi-monthly meetings. The purpose of the Innovative Technologies Breakfast  is to provide a network forum for Delaware's technology community, driving innovation, collaboration, and economic development in central and southern Delaware - in particular - and the state of Delaware in general. Additionally, it is our pleasure to highlight the University’s research activities and programs as well as those of our partners ranging from applied optics, energy, neuroscience, to homeland security research. ITB meetings are held bi-monthly on the second Thursday of the months of February, April, June, August, October, and December. The networking sessions begin at 7:30 a.m. with formal presentations from 8:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m.; therefore, yielding a total time commitment of ninety minutes. On behalf of Delaware State University, it is our pleasure to extend to you a warm invitation to attend and participate in the various ITB activities that are planned throughout the year. You may register for the next ITB at ITB Online. Sponsors The Innovative Technologies Breakfast is sponsored by Delaware State University, and is co-sponsored by the Central Delaware Economic Development Council (CDEDC) and the Delaware Economic Development Office.(DEDO).