This makes the appearance of involvement even stronger!!  Also, if the "in
kind" involved activity/services on the part of federal employees, STEP
VERY CAREFULLY AND KEEP VERY GOOD RECORDS, to make absolutely clear if
there was or was not any involvement/suspicion toward the federal employee.

Chuck

At 11:00 AM 9/5/00 -0400, you wrote:
>I forgot to mention that the federal match was in-kind and was not
>transmitted to the institution as an award.
>
>Rochelle
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Rochelle Athey [mailto:xxxxxx@uakron.edu]
>Sent: Tuesday, September 05, 2000 10:56 AM
>To: xxxxxx@hrinet.org
>Subject: misconduct question
>
>
>Dear colleagues:
>
>I would like to obtain your thoughts on the following scenario.
>
>An investigator has been accused of scientific misconduct. A committee
>organized by your institution found there was cause for additional
>investigation.
>
>The investigator's research was funded by a non-federal agency.  The
>non-federal agency does not have a policy on scientific misconduct.
>
>As part of the award budget for the research funded by the non-federal
>agency, there is a cost sharing component to be funded by a federal agency.
>
>Would you recommend following the federal agency's guidelines for scientific
>misconduct cases or would you recommend following only the institution's
>policy?
>
>Any light you can shed on this question would be illuminating.  Thanks!
>
>Rochelle R. Athey
>Associate Director
>Research Services & Sponsored Programs
>330-972-8311
>330-972-6281 fax
>
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