Public Health

• 10 Tips on How to Write Less Badly   Sensible, helpful ideas for improving academic writing skills.
• Advice on Designing Scientific Posters   A scientific poster is a large document that can communicate your research at a scientific meeting, and is composed of a short title, an introduction to your burning question, an overview of your trendy experimental approach, your amazing results, some insightful discussion of aforementioned results, a listing of previously published articles that are important to your research, and some brief acknowledgement of the tremendous assistance and financial support conned from others—if all text is kept to a minimum, a person could fully read your poster in under 10 minutes.
• Nature Methods Points of View Bang Wong, Creative Director at the Broad Institute at MIT, provides instruction in effective visual communication of science in this monthly column. For most direct access, sroll down on the right to Recent Publications for quick access to the columns.
• Powerpoint Poster Templates  A dozen templates in different dimensions (inches and centimeters)  will assist you in creating a poster session from Powerpoint slides.
• Ten Simple Rules Collection   The Public Library of Science (PLoS) offers skill guides for researchers and professionals that include:
  • Ten Simple Rules for Getting Published
  • Ten Simple Rules for Getting Grants
  • Ten Simple Rules for a Successful Collaboration
  • Ten Simple Rules for Making Good Oral Presentations
  • Ten Simple Rules for a Good Poster Presentation
  • Ten Simple Rules for Doing Your Best Research, According to Hamming

Butler University's Institutional Review Board (IRB) is the institutional body that governs the procedures to be used in research with humans, including protocol approvals as well as suspensions and terminations. The board ensures compliance with the Code of Federal Regulations and the Federal wide Assurance, a declaration of compliance for the protection of human subjects in research. Butler IRB members are appointed by the Provost/Vice President for Academic Affairs for three-year staggered terms.

Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative (CITI) is dedicated to serving the training needs of colleges and universities, healthcare institutions, technology and research organizations, and governmental agencies, as they foster integrity and professional advancement of their learners.

A number of avenues exist at Butler for formal learning about ethical conduct of research and the standards within this research community. Education has long been required for individuals participating in Human Subject research and Animal research. Online education focused on Responsible Conduct of Research is available via Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative (CITI).

Typically RCR education addresses the following topics:

• Data Acquisition and Management—collection, accuracy, security, access
• Authorship and Publication
• Peer Review
• Mentor/Trainee Responsibilities
• Collaboration
• Conflict of Interest
• Research Misconduct
• Human Subject Research
• Use of Animals in Research

For more information on research compliance and integrity, visit the Office of Sponsored Programs.