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ESRI Award


In March 2024, the Center for Agribusiness Excellence (CAE) at Tarleton State University and the USDA Risk Management Agency (RMA) were notified of receiving a Special Achievement in GIS (SAG) …

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Use of Publicly Available OR Identifiable Private Sources of Information


In many areas of the social sciences, one of the most commonly used methods of research is the secondary analysis of publicly available files of data. The federal government as well as large data consolidation bureaus and consortiums provide public access to many data sets. Additionally, many federal funding programs as well as social science professional organizations and journals now require that researchers make the data they collect publicly available to encourage scholarly replication of research. Data may also available from previously IRB approved protocols where the data sets do not contain information that could be used to identify individual research participants.

Limited IRB Review


What is limited IRB review? Limited IRB is increased oversight by the IRB for low-risk research (e.g. certain exempt categories) to ensure that either: How is limited IRB review conducted? …