Office for Research Protections

Workshops, Outreach & Training

ORP has a staff of coordinators and an educator available to provide individual training as well as group training to PSU faculty, staff, students and the Penn State community on topics such as human participants, animal subjects, research misconduct and research ethics and various other topics. If you would like information on available training, would like to schedule a training session or have questions about one of our sessions, please contact the ORP at 814.865.1775 or ORProtections@psu.edu. Note that seats may be limited for the sessions listed in our offerings schedule. We are also happy to announce our new Past Workshops Video Archive.

If you have suggestions for workshop topics, please submit them on our Topic Suggestions page.

Research Compliance Training Modules

The ORP has several online training modules available for your learning. Please click here for a listing of online training modules.

Teaching Tools

We also offer tools to assist Faculty and Graduate Students in teaching and understanding research ethics issues.

ORP Listserv

A great way to hear about the latest Educational News and Events is to subscribe to the ORP Listserv. The listserv is strictly an announcement list with approximately 5-10 posts per semester. To subscribe, please send an email to: L-ORP-Research-L-subscribe-request@lists.psu.edu (no need to add any text to the subject or message part of the email) or contact the ORP Webmaster.