The key to avoiding COI issues is to have each reporting to a
different supervisor.  This assumes that there is no  absolute
prohibition in institutional (or state, if state U.) regulations.  It
is even better if the institutional policy is explicit about how to
set up different supervisors, etc.

Chuck

At 08:45 AM 5/8/2006, you wrote:

>I am looking for information on how other institutions handle
>spouses who are both employed at the institutions and want to work
>together on externally funded projects, where one is acting as the
>PI and the other as the Co-PI.
>
>Thank you,
>Julie Wyse
>IUP Research Institute
>Project Development Officer
>xxxxxx@iup.edu
>(724) 357-4504
>Stright Hall 107B
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