The Big Bang Theory
Research Administration According to Dr. Sheldon Cooper Bruce Morgan, Sean Williams, Nancy Lewis
Acknowledgement • This presentation was prepared and delivered at NCURA AM 57 by our colleagues listed below who graciously allowed us to present this entertaining material for you! • Anthony Ventimiglia, Auburn University • Justo Torres, North Carolina State University • David Smelser, Tennessee State University
How Will This Session Work? • Not like any session you have ever been to… • We’re going to: – Watch clips of “The Big Bang Theory” – Identify Research Administration topics in the clips – Discuss relevant, real-world examples and the associated rules/regulations – Maybe change the way we think about the show
• It’s ok to laugh and have fun along the way!
The Big Bang Theory • Is a comedy series in it’s 9th season on CBS • Follows the lives of Drs. Sheldon Cooper and Leonard Hofstadter, friends and physicists at Caltech • The cast also includes: – – – – – –
Howard Wolowitz (Aerospace Engineer) Raj Koothrappali (Astrophysicist) Amy Farrah Fowler (Neurobiologist) Barry Kripke (Theoretical Physicist) Bernadette Rostenkowski (Microbiologist) Penny (waitress and aspiring actress)
S4 EP1: The Robotic Manipulation
The Reason We Exist “I have a masters degree and two doctorates. The things I should know, I do know.” ~ Dr. Sheldon Cooper “If you were as smart as you think you are, you would listen to me.” ~ Everyone in this room
Truth is Stranger than Fiction • A PI called a research administrator a “pinhead” • A PI asked a research administrator how much he/she got paid because the university needed to hire someone better • A PI told a research administrator it was more important that he/she stay late to submit a proposal than to go pickup his/her kids from daycare
Getting to Know Your Customers • Post Doctoral Associate – – – –
Generally right out of a dissertation Rarely get their own funding Pay may be marginal They may have a lot of student debt
• Assistant Professor – – – –
Have little or no internal support system Have little or no funding Nervous about tenure High teaching load
Getting to Know Your Customers • Associate Professor – Usually tenured – Published and funded – Still looking to move up
• Professor – Navigating changing rules and changing science – Have a reputation to uphold
S6 EP14: The Cooper/Kripke Inversion
What’s Going on Here? • In some programs, sponsors restrict the number of proposals an institution may submit (Limited Submission) • This requires institutions to screen pre-proposals or nominations to determine which will be submitted – In the clip, the selection process resulted in a collaboration
• How does the process work at different institutions? • What are the challenges/barriers to the process? • What happens when too many proposals are submitted?
S2 EP 8: The Lizard-Spock Expansion
What’s Going on Here? • “Government property” means all property owned or leased by the Government • It includes both Government-furnished property and contractor-acquired property • Government property includes material, equipment, special tooling, special test equipment, and real property • Government property does not include intellectual property and software (FAR 45.101)
DOD Perspective • All persons entrusted with the management of Government property shall: – Possess and continually demonstrate an appropriate level of competence and proficiency in property accountability and management – Be held to the highest ethical standards – Be responsible for the proper use, care, physical protection, and disposal or disposition – Report any misuse to appropriate investigative organizations through proper channels
S7 EP20: The Relationship Diremption
What’s Going on Here? • Federal grant funds are awarded for a specific “public purpose” and grantees must use those funds as agreed and within parameters such as Uniform Guidance and granting agency guidelines • Most issues of fraud essentially equate to “lying, cheating, and stealing” • What internal controls should be in place to mitigate the risk of fraud (inappropriate use of funds)?
Societal Impacts of the Show • Research Administrators see the show in our own special way. • Does the general public cringe at the show the same way we do? • Or, do they just laugh and move on?
Societal Impacts of the Show • Does the show plant the seed in the public’s mind that research in academia should receive funding from their tax dollars? • Does the show plant the seed in the public’s mind that these things might go on in academia? • Or, do these things actually happen?
Maybe They Do…
S4 EP21: The Agreement Dissection
What’s Going on Here? • Institutions using live vertebrate animals must establish an Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee to oversee and evaluate all aspects of the institution's animal care and use program • The IACUC is a self-regulating entity with authority that is derived from two sources: – Animal Welfare Act, which is administered through USDA Animal Plant Health Inspection Service – Health Research Extension Act, which is administered through the Office of Laboratory Animal Welfare of NIH
What’s Going on Here? • There are serious consequences for protocol violations and noncompliance • Investigators, departments, schools, and colleges can lose funding and universities could lose the ability to work with animals in any capacity
S8 EP 15: The Comic Book Store Regeneration
What’s Going on Here? • There are three questions utilized to determine if an activity is human subjects research: – Is it research? – Is it generalizable knowledge? – Does the research involve human subjects?
• The rules contained in 45 CFR § 46.101 (Protection of Human Subjects) are enforced by The Office for Human Research Protections • The responsibilities of OHRP include education, compliance oversight, and administration of assurances
What’s Going on Here? • OHRP’s Division of Compliance Oversight (DCO) evaluates, at OHRP’s discretion, written substantive indications of noncompliance with 45 CFR 46 • OHRP asks the institution involved to investigate the allegations and to provide OHRP with a written report of its investigation • The Office then determines what, if any, regulatory action needs to be taken to protect human research subjects
S3 EP1: The Electric Can Opener Fluctuation
What’s Going on Here? • Fabrication is the intentional act of making up data or results and recording or reporting them • It calls into question the integrity of the data and represents serious issues in scientific ethics • Represents 1/3 of the definition of research misconduct, along with: – Falsification: manipulating research or changing data so the research is not accurately represented – Plagiarism: taking credit for another person's ideas/results without giving appropriate credit
What’s Going on Here? • Why does research misconduct happen? – Career pressure (tenure, reputation, fame) – Conflict of interest / financial motivation – Laziness / ease – Lack of PI oversight – Poor training
Thank You! Bruce Morgan [email protected] Sean Williams Sean.Williams@csueastbay. edu Nancy Lewis [email protected]
S8 EP 18: The Leftover Thermalization
S8 EP11: The Clean Room Infiltration
S4 EP15: The Benefactor Factor
Acknowledgement • This presentation was prepared and delivered at NCURA AM 57 by our colleagues listed below who graciously allowed us to present this entertaining material for you! • Anthony Ventimiglia, Auburn University • Justo Torres, North Carolina State University • David Smelser, Tennessee State University
How Will This Session Work? • Not like any session you have ever been to… • We’re going to: – Watch clips of “The Big Bang Theory” – Identify Research Administration topics in the clips – Discuss relevant, real-world examples and the associated rules/regulations – Maybe change the way we think about the show
• It’s ok to laugh and have fun along the way!
The Big Bang Theory • Is a comedy series in it’s 9th season on CBS • Follows the lives of Drs. Sheldon Cooper and Leonard Hofstadter, friends and physicists at Caltech • The cast also includes: – – – – – –
Howard Wolowitz (Aerospace Engineer) Raj Koothrappali (Astrophysicist) Amy Farrah Fowler (Neurobiologist) Barry Kripke (Theoretical Physicist) Bernadette Rostenkowski (Microbiologist) Penny (waitress and aspiring actress)
S4 EP1: The Robotic Manipulation
The Reason We Exist “I have a masters degree and two doctorates. The things I should know, I do know.” ~ Dr. Sheldon Cooper “If you were as smart as you think you are, you would listen to me.” ~ Everyone in this room
Truth is Stranger than Fiction • A PI called a research administrator a “pinhead” • A PI asked a research administrator how much he/she got paid because the university needed to hire someone better • A PI told a research administrator it was more important that he/she stay late to submit a proposal than to go pickup his/her kids from daycare
Getting to Know Your Customers • Post Doctoral Associate – – – –
Generally right out of a dissertation Rarely get their own funding Pay may be marginal They may have a lot of student debt
• Assistant Professor – – – –
Have little or no internal support system Have little or no funding Nervous about tenure High teaching load
Getting to Know Your Customers • Associate Professor – Usually tenured – Published and funded – Still looking to move up
• Professor – Navigating changing rules and changing science – Have a reputation to uphold
S6 EP14: The Cooper/Kripke Inversion
What’s Going on Here? • In some programs, sponsors restrict the number of proposals an institution may submit (Limited Submission) • This requires institutions to screen pre-proposals or nominations to determine which will be submitted – In the clip, the selection process resulted in a collaboration
• How does the process work at different institutions? • What are the challenges/barriers to the process? • What happens when too many proposals are submitted?
S2 EP 8: The Lizard-Spock Expansion
What’s Going on Here? • “Government property” means all property owned or leased by the Government • It includes both Government-furnished property and contractor-acquired property • Government property includes material, equipment, special tooling, special test equipment, and real property • Government property does not include intellectual property and software (FAR 45.101)
DOD Perspective • All persons entrusted with the management of Government property shall: – Possess and continually demonstrate an appropriate level of competence and proficiency in property accountability and management – Be held to the highest ethical standards – Be responsible for the proper use, care, physical protection, and disposal or disposition – Report any misuse to appropriate investigative organizations through proper channels
S7 EP20: The Relationship Diremption
What’s Going on Here? • Federal grant funds are awarded for a specific “public purpose” and grantees must use those funds as agreed and within parameters such as Uniform Guidance and granting agency guidelines • Most issues of fraud essentially equate to “lying, cheating, and stealing” • What internal controls should be in place to mitigate the risk of fraud (inappropriate use of funds)?
Societal Impacts of the Show • Research Administrators see the show in our own special way. • Does the general public cringe at the show the same way we do? • Or, do they just laugh and move on?
Societal Impacts of the Show • Does the show plant the seed in the public’s mind that research in academia should receive funding from their tax dollars? • Does the show plant the seed in the public’s mind that these things might go on in academia? • Or, do these things actually happen?
Maybe They Do…
S4 EP21: The Agreement Dissection
What’s Going on Here? • Institutions using live vertebrate animals must establish an Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee to oversee and evaluate all aspects of the institution's animal care and use program • The IACUC is a self-regulating entity with authority that is derived from two sources: – Animal Welfare Act, which is administered through USDA Animal Plant Health Inspection Service – Health Research Extension Act, which is administered through the Office of Laboratory Animal Welfare of NIH
What’s Going on Here? • There are serious consequences for protocol violations and noncompliance • Investigators, departments, schools, and colleges can lose funding and universities could lose the ability to work with animals in any capacity
S8 EP 15: The Comic Book Store Regeneration
What’s Going on Here? • There are three questions utilized to determine if an activity is human subjects research: – Is it research? – Is it generalizable knowledge? – Does the research involve human subjects?
• The rules contained in 45 CFR § 46.101 (Protection of Human Subjects) are enforced by The Office for Human Research Protections • The responsibilities of OHRP include education, compliance oversight, and administration of assurances
What’s Going on Here? • OHRP’s Division of Compliance Oversight (DCO) evaluates, at OHRP’s discretion, written substantive indications of noncompliance with 45 CFR 46 • OHRP asks the institution involved to investigate the allegations and to provide OHRP with a written report of its investigation • The Office then determines what, if any, regulatory action needs to be taken to protect human research subjects
S3 EP1: The Electric Can Opener Fluctuation
What’s Going on Here? • Fabrication is the intentional act of making up data or results and recording or reporting them • It calls into question the integrity of the data and represents serious issues in scientific ethics • Represents 1/3 of the definition of research misconduct, along with: – Falsification: manipulating research or changing data so the research is not accurately represented – Plagiarism: taking credit for another person's ideas/results without giving appropriate credit
What’s Going on Here? • Why does research misconduct happen? – Career pressure (tenure, reputation, fame) – Conflict of interest / financial motivation – Laziness / ease – Lack of PI oversight – Poor training
Thank You! Bruce Morgan [email protected] Sean Williams Sean.Williams@csueastbay. edu Nancy Lewis [email protected]
S8 EP 18: The Leftover Thermalization
S8 EP11: The Clean Room Infiltration
S4 EP15: The Benefactor Factor
